From his acting career spanning three decades, international audiences will be most familiar with Chen Daoming for his roles as the tough undercover police detective in Infernal Affairs III and as the iron-fisted King of Qin in Zhang Yimou’s Hero. In China, Chen is best known for his dramatic television appearances including his breakthrough role in 1984’s The Last Emperor and CCTV’s Fortress Besieged, a series that grabbed the attention of the whole country in 1990 and established his position as one of China’s most popular stars. In 2000, he secured best actor wins at the Huabiao Awards and Golden Rooster Awards for his role in Huang Jianzhong’s historical drama My 1919 about the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and present. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
