Patrick Tse

In this Hong Kong name, the surname is Tse. In accordance with Hong Kong custom, the Western-style name is Patrick and the Chinese-style name is Yin.

Patrick Tse Yin (born Tse Ka-yuk; 9 August 1936)^[1] is a Hong Kong actor, producer, screenwriter and director in Hong Kong cinema.

Patrick Tse
謝賢
Tse in 2018
Born	Tse Ka-yuk (謝家鈺) (1936-08-09) August 9, 1936 (age 89) Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Nationality	Chinese Canadian
Other names	Tse Yin
Occupations	Actor producer director
Years active	1952–present
Spouses	Chen Chen (actress) ​ ​ (m. 1974; div. 1978)​ Deborah Lee [zh] ​ ​ (m. 1979; div. 1996)​
Partner	Coco (2005–2017, 2018–present)
Children	Nicholas Tse (son), with Lee Jennifer Tse (daughter), with Lee
Tse Yin
Traditional Chinese	謝賢
Simplified Chinese	谢贤
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Xiè Xián Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Ze6 Jin4
Tse Ka-yuk
Traditional Chinese	謝家鈺
Simplified Chinese	谢家钰
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Xiè Jiā-yù Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Ze6 Gaa1-yuk6
Signature

Biography

Patrick Tse began his acting career in the 1950s and remained active for the next 40 years. He is a versatile and popular actor, usually playing the leading male roles.^[2]

Tse worked briefly as writer, director and producer in the 1970s:

• If Tomorrow Comes (1973) as producer/director
• Madness of Love (1972) as director
• One Year's Fantasy (1974) as writer/director
• Love in Cubicle (1974) as writer/director
• Farewell Dearest (1974) as director
• The Splendid Love in Winter (1974) as writer/director
• Love in Hawaii (1976) as producer/director
• Confused Love (1977) as director

He stopped acting in the 1990s after immigrating to Canada, but returned to acting in 1999.

In 2022, Tse won his first ever Best Actor award^[3] from the Hong Kong Film Critics Society for the movie Time.^[4]

Filmography

Films

This is a partial list of films.

Year	English Title	Role	Notes
1952	The Stormy Night (aka The Roar of the Earth)		Film debut.
1957	She Married an Overseas Chinese (aka China Wife)	Tsang Tai-Sing	[5]
	The Whispering Palm (aka Moon Over Malaya)	Ngor Ming	[6][5]
1964	The Beau	Ka Bo
1966	The Spy with My Face	Cheung Man Fu and #1	[7][8]
1967	Diamond Robbery		[9]
	Man from Interpol		[10][11]
	The Professionals	Kam Chun-Yue	[12]
	Revenger
	The Story of a Discharged Prisoner (aka Upright Repenter)	Lee Cheuk-hung
	To Rose with Love		[13]
2001	Shaolin Soccer	Hung
2018	A Beautiful Moment
2019	Missbehavior
2020	Forensic Heroes IV	Long Siu-tin	Cameo appearance
2021	Time[4]	Chau	Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards for Best Actor Hong Kong Film Directors' Guild Award for Best Actor

Television

Year	English Title	Role	Notes
1979	Over the Rainbow	To Yat-tin
1980	The Bund II	Tik Wan-chi
	The Shell Game	Law Sei Hoi
1981	The Shell Game II	Law Sei Hoi
1982	Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils	Duen Ching-sun
1983	The Legend of the Condor Heroes: The Iron-Blooded Loyalists	Yeung Tit-sum
	The Legend of the Condor Heroes: Eastern Heretic and Western Venom	Yeung Tit-sum
	The Legend of the Condor Heroes: The Duel on Mount Hua	Yeung Tit-sum
1985	The Flying Fox of Snowy Mountain	Miu Yan-fung
1986	Heir to the Throne Is...	Cheung Leung
	The Legend of Wong Tai Sin	Prince Lung
2005	Central Affairs

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Personal life

In 1974, Tse married Zhen Zhen (Chinese: 甄珍), a Beijing-born Taiwanese actress, but they divorced in 1978.^[16]

Tse's second wife was Deborah Lee (Chinese: 狄波拉), a Hong Kong actress. They have two children, Hong Kong actor-singer Nicholas Tse and actress and model Jennifer Tse. Tse and his family lived in Vancouver after his retirement from acting, but they have since returned to Hong Kong. In 1996, Tse divorced Lee. In 2005, Tse began a relationship with Coco, a Shanghai native who is 49 years his junior.^[17][18] Tse and Coco previously broke up in late 2017^[19] and got back together again in late 2018.^[20]

See also

• Patsy Kar