Actor Kenneth Tsang Koon-yat 曾江 died in a quarantine hotel yesterday, the 87-year-old actor had flown in from Singapore and tested positive for covid.
Tsang was born in Shanghai and became an actor in the 1950s starring in many popular films during the 60s. In the 80s appearing with Chow Yun-Fat in A Better Tomorrow and its sequel, and films like John Woo’s The Killer and Rush Hour 2 raised Tsang’s international profile and saw him appear in The Replacement Killers in the James Bond film Die Another Day.
In his 50-year career, Tsang appeared in over 200 films, directing three.
Tsang has a star on the Avenue of Stars on the Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront.
