Lau Siu-ming

Lau Siu-ming (, 13 October 1931 – 2 September 2026) was a Hong Kong dancer and actor. He started his acting career in TVB. He starred in the movie "The Butterfly Murders" for the first time in 1979. Though he is best known for his roles in The Legend of the Condor Heroes, the 1990 martial arts film Swordsman, A Chinese Ghost Story, A Chinese Ghost Story II, and A Chinese Ghost Story III. In 2006, he was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 11th Hong Kong Golden Bauhinia Awards for playing Uncle Ghost in the film Re-cycle.

Early life Lau Siu-ming was born on 13 October 1931, and his ancestral home was Longkou Town, Heshan City, Jiangmen, Guangdong. When he was young, he traveled across the ocean alone and worked as a warehouse worker on a cruise ship. Later, he was awarded a scholarship to dance at the Classical Ballet Research Center in Cannes, France.

Career Lau had profound attainments in dance. He was one of the pioneers of the Hong Kong dance industry and the first Hong Kong dancer to emerge internationally. Later, he opened a dance school to train young actors, so he was called "Ming sir". It achieved good box office results and made costume ghost films become the trend of Hong Kong films again.

In 1994, he starred in the love drama Goodbye, My Wife directed by Li Guoli, and played Dong Liguang in the series; in the same year, he starred in the action film Drunken Master II directed by Lau Kar-leung (Pinyin: Liu Jialiang) starring Jackie Chan and Anita Mui, and played Chiu in the series; with a box office of 40.97 million Hong Kong dollars, the film won the annual runner-up of the Hong Kong box office, and was selected as "one of the top ten films in the world in 1994" by the American magazine Time.

In 2001, Lau Siu-ming accepted the invitation to perform Hong Kong Ballet's "White Snake" and Hong Kong Dance Company's "Blessings of Love". With his years of performing arts experience, he led the two stage plays and was awarded the 2002 Hong Kong Dance Award.

On 27 June 2007, at the age of 76, Lau was awarded the title of Honorary Fellow by the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in recognition of his achievements. In 2010, together with Chung King Fai and Lu Weiluan (Xiao Si), he won the Outstanding Artistic Contribution Award of the "2009 Hong Kong Arts Development Award".

On 16 December 2013, Lau won the 46th TVB Thousands of Stars Performing Artist Award.

Personal life and death Lau Siu-ming's wife of 50 years, Cheung Wai Ling, died of cancer. On 31 October 2012, a funeral ceremony was held at the Holy Cross Church in Sai Wan Ho. Friends in the circle, Liu Songyan, Huang Qiusheng, Guo Aiming and Chen Jinhong, etc. attended the ceremony.

Lau died on 2 September 2026, at the age of 94.

Filmography

Television series

Films