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Something wrong?He made androgyny magnetic decades before the conversation turned global, and when he jumped from the Mandarin Oriental in 2003, Hong Kong lost the man who had defined Cantopop and given Asian cinema some of its most daring performances.
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Cheung's English name was inspired by the actor Leslie Howard (pictured in Gone with the Wind).
Cheung's role in Days of Being Wild, directed by Wong Kar-wai (pictured), earned him a Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor.
Cheung at a 1997 concert
Cheung's wax figure at Madame Tussauds Hong Kong from Farewell My Concubine
15th anniversary of Cheung's death, in Central, Hong Kong, 2018
Cheung's star on the Avenue of Stars in Hong Kong
Art of Leslie Cheung's Movies exhibition at Times Square (Hong Kong), April 2013Listen
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Born in Kowloon in 1956, Cheung studied in England from age 12 and returned in 1976 to enter a televised singing contest the next year. The breakthrough came in 1984 with "Monica" - by the decade's end he had shaped Cantopop into a genre and logged 40 albums. He announced retirement in 1989 and moved to Canada, but by 1994 he was back, and his 1996 album Red pushed into sonic experimentation and imagery that unsettled convention. Film gave him another canvas: A Better Tomorrow in 1986, Best Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards for Days of Being Wild in 1991, then the roles that carried his name worldwide - Farewell My Concubine in 1993, Happy Together in 1997. On 1 April 2003, he stepped off the hotel ledge. Two albums had each sold over 300,000 copies in Hong Kong, and CNN would later name him one of the 25 greatest Asian actors of all time.
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