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Charles Heung Bio, Age, Career, Net Worth, Height, Wife

Charles Heung is a famous Hong Kong actor-turned-film producer and presenter. In this article, we provide information on Charles Heung personal life and career.

Charles Heung Age

He is 74 years old.

Charles Heung Height

1.78 m

Charles Heung Nationality

Chinese

Charles Heung Biography

He was born on December 16, 1948 and his birthplace is China.

Charles sun sign is Sagittarius and his birth flower is Narcissus & Holly.

Charles Heung Parents

His father, Heung Chin, was the head of all Triads in Hong Kong. However, he was expelled from Hong Kong in the late 1950s and fled to Taiwan.

Heung’s father, Heung Chin, founded the Sun Yee On in 1919. Charles is the tenth of the Sun Yee On founder’s thirteen children.

Charles Heung Siblings

In August 1993, he and his brother, Jimmy Heung, opened a multimillion-dollar, 200,000-square-foot movie studio in Shenzhen. The partnership between Heung and his brother, Jimmy ended in 1992 as Charles felt that Jimmy’s style of negotiating business, too closely resembled that of a Triad member.

The partnership between Heung and his brother, Jimmy ended in 1992 as Charles felt that Jimmy’s style of negotiating business, too closely resembled that of a Triad member. While Charles sees Jimmy as a “good triad,” it is widely believed that Jimmy has moved on, and supposedly runs the triad to this day.

Charles Heung Net Worth

He is also ranked in the richest person list in China.

Charles Heung’s net worth or net income is estimated to be $1 million – $4 million dollars. He has made such an amount of wealth from his primary career as a Actor.

Charles Heung Career

Heung started off as an actor making films (mostly Kung Fu action flicks) in Taiwan during the 1970s, before becoming a producer.

Apart from producing films, Heung is a bar-owner of the Top Ten, a nightclub in Beijing, and in 2006, he and Tiffany made reports that they plan to open a casino run exclusively by China Star, but still plan to continue and distribute films, focusing on big-budget-productions. Following the partnership split between himself and Jimmy, Heung closed down Win’s Entertainment Ltd.

Established One Hundred Years of Film Co. Ltd. in 1999 alongside director Johnnie To. A company dedicated to developing a huge library of content for his company China Star Entertainment Group.

In 1992, Heung formed the China Star Entertainment Group and became the studio’s chairman and CEO. He employed his wife Tiffany Chen as vice-chairman and administrative producer, even though she had no knowledge of the industry. Today, she is one of the most respected film producers in Hong Kong.

Charles Heung Wife

During the 1970s, he married Betty Ting Pei, the woman best known for finding Bruce Lee’s body in her apartment. The marriage, however, did not last, and Heung later married Tiffany Chen, a Taiwan native.

While the triad’s influence in Hong Kong cinema became notorious, Charles tried to keep himself away from his family’s triad image by creating a company of safe refuge.

Charles Heung Children

In 1980, Heung married his current wife Taiwan-based Tiffany Chen. They have two sons, Jacky and Johnathan. Jacky is also a martial actor.

The 37-year-old son of Charles Heung and Tiffany Chen makes his own mark in the industry as a movie actor, martial artist and cover model.

In December 2020, Heung and his son, Jacky Heung, applied for permanent residence in Taiwan; both applications were denied in February 2021 on the basis of “danger of threatening national interest, public safety, or public order or engaging in terrorist activities.”

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Update: 2024-05-21