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Michael Miu
苗僑偉
Born	(1958-06-18) June 18, 1958 (age 66) Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China
Nationality	Hong Konger
Other names	Sam Gor (三哥; lit. Third Brother), Ah Miu (阿苗)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1980–1996, 1999, 2004–present
Spouse	Jaime Chik ​(m. 1990)​
Children	Phoebe Miu (daughter) (b. 1991) Murphy Miu (son) (b. 1993)
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	苗僑偉
Simplified Chinese	苗侨伟
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Miáo Qiáowěi Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Miu4 Kiu4-wai5

Michael Miu Kiu-wai (苗僑偉) (born 18 June 1958) is a Hong Kong actor and businessman. His career has been met with popular success in his youth, followed by a resurgence in middle age after a period of hiatus. He is considered one of the most popular Hong Kong actors of the 1980s. Miu is best known for the villainous Yeung Hong in the 1983 television drama The Legend of the Condor Heroes.

Early life

Born in Zhoushan, Zhejiang in 1958, Miu and his mother moved to Hong Kong to rejoin his father when he was five. Miu rarely saw his father, a merchant mariner, and was mainly raised by his mother. Near the end of high school, Miu's father was diagnosed with cancer. As a result, he left school and began working as a carpenter to support his family.

Career

Miu was scouted and brought into TVB's Acting Academy in September 1979. While still in training, he made cameo appearances in several major dramas, such as The Bund (1980). Miu's official acting debut was in the 1980 drama The Adventurer's. Immediately after graduating from the Academy, Miu was offered a major role in the 1981 thriller drama The Lonely Hunter, starring alongside his classmate Felix Wong with seniors Carol Cheng and Money Chan.

From 1981 to 1986, Miu together with Tony Leung, Andy Lau, Felix Wong and Kent Tong were promoted as TVB's Five Tigers, a group of five of the most popular young actors in Hong Kong at the time. In 1987, Miu left TVB, and stepped back from the industry to focus on business ventures.

During the 90s, Miu devoted himself to his eyewear business and earned a reputation as a businessman. Due to the reasons of Hong Kong's economic downturn and uncertainty over retail industry in the future, he sold his business, The Optical Centre, in 2002 to Luxottica. His comeback performance was in the 2005 cop drama The Academy, which earned him major recognition and propelled him forward.

Miu starred in the 2014 crime drama Line Walker as Cheuk Hoi and became a strong contender for Best Actor in 2014 TVB Anniversary Awards. He reprised his role in Line Walker: The Prelude won Best Actor in a Leading Role award at the TVB Star Awards Malaysia 2017. In 2020, Miu reprised his role as Cheuk Hoi for the third time in the sequel Line Walker: Bull Fight.

Also, in 2017, he was the narrator for the Hong Kong (Cantonese) version of Planet Earth 2/Heaven and Earth II (天與地II).

In 2020, he made a guest appearance as himself in episode 997 with Michelle Yim as herself on TVB’s sitcom Come Home Love: Lo and Behold as the spokesperson and ribbon cutters.

Personal life

Miu first met Hong Kong actress Jaime Chik in 1981 while shooting for the TVB television drama You Only Live Twice. They began dating but separated a year later. Miu dated Anita Mui briefly in 1983, whom he met on the set of Summer Kisses, Winter Tears. Miu and Chik reconciled, and the couple married in 1990. Miu and Chik have two children - a son, Murphy Miu, and daughter, Phoebe Miu, who is also an actor, both of whom reside in Vancouver, Canada.

Filmography

References

1. 高登澳洲母公司購併藝視. 太陽報 (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Hong Kong: Oriental Press Group. 21 September 2002. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
2. 苗僑偉為《天與地II》首度擔任聲音導航. TVB USA (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Hong Kong: TVB USA. 15 October 2017. Retrieved 8 Aug 2021.
3. 【開心速遞】苗僑偉米雪客串《愛回家》出場 呂慧儀：小職員順便追星. HKNet (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Hong Kong: HKNet. 24 August 2020. Retrieved 8 Aug 2021.
4. "Jaime Chik discusses Michael Miu and Anita Mui's romance". Xinhua news (in Chinese). 2009-12-07. Archived from the original on 2014-08-08. Retrieved 2012-06-10.
5. 何德 (13 June 2024). "《談判專家》影評 劉青雲、吳鎮宇張力十足，導演邱禮濤近年最精彩之作" (in Chinese). Harper's Bazaar. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
6. Michael Miu at hkmdb.com
7. Michael Miu at chinesemov.com

External links

• Official TVB site
• Michael Miu at IMDb

• 1958 births
• Living people
• Hong Kong male film actors
• Hong Kong male television actors
• People from Zhoushan
• TVB veteran actors
• Male actors from Zhejiang
• 20th-century Hong Kong male actors
• 21st-century Hong Kong male actors
• Chinese emigrants to British Hong Kong
• Chinese male film actors
• Chinese male television actors
• 20th-century Chinese male actors
• 21st-century Chinese male actors