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Ekin Cheng Yee-Kin (born October 4, 1967) is a Hong Kong actor and Cantopop singer. Earlier in his career he was known as Noodle Cheng (鄭伊麵), though he has now reverted to a more conventional-sounding first name. Sometimes he uses Dior (because that was what it sounded like when his younger sister tried to call him) as a first name but usually Ekin is the name used.

Biography

Ekin began acting in commercials when he was in high school, the most well-known being for Hi-C Lemon Tea. After high school, he enrolled in TVB's Martial Arts school, but did not like it and switched to their acting school. After that he began to get a number of TV roles. The latest TVB series he participated in was Always Ready, working with Charmaine Sheh, Bowie Lam , and Linda Chung.

Personal life

Ekin was caught up in a grand scandal after leaving Maggie Siu, an actress whom he dated for many years, for a decade younger actress and singer Gigi Leung. Maggie was well-loved by Hong Kong audiences and gave up her career to support Ekin's career and many slighted him after the breakup. In 2006, Ekin and Gigi Leung broke up, ending their seven-year relationship.

In September 2006, Ekin and YoYo Mung begun dating through their mutual interest in badminton.

Movies

His first film was Girls Without Tomorrow (1992) and at the time he was still going by the name Dior Cheng. He changed his name to Ekin before his breakout role in Young and Dangerous as Chan Ho Nam. The film led to 6 sequels, all starring Cheng, and a lucrative working partnership with director Andrew Lau. Together they went on to make The Storm Riders, which was the highest-grossing Hong Kong movie at the time and the first film to utilize a truly large number of special effects. They also worked together on The Legend of Speed, A Man Called Hero, The Duel and the comedy Women From Mars.

More recently, Ekin has branched out in the roles he's taken, including more comedy like earlier in his career with My Wife is 18 and Six Strong Guys, while still doing more action-oriented films like The Twins Effect and Tokyo Raiders.

Music

Ekin had a successful music career with BMG. But in the 2000s, he signed with EEG, a juggernaut company owned by Albert Yeung. Under this company he was 'frozen' and not allowed to put out any records. But as is a custom with EEG, he made several movies with other EEG stars. As of 2004, his contract with EEG ended and he returned to BMG where he released a new record. As of 2005, Ekin is an artist of BMA Records.

Filmography

• Divergence (2005) - To Hou-sung
• It Had to Be You! (2005) - Jack
• Leave Me Alone (2004) - Yiu Chun-Man/Yiu Chun-Kit
• Ab-normal Beauty (2004)
• Six Strong Guys (2004) - Long
• Black Rose Academy (2004) - Jim Lo
• Anna in Kung Fu Land (2003) - Ken
• Floating Landscape (2003) - Sam
• Heroic Duo (2003) - Ken
• My Dream Girl (2003) - Lam Joe
• The Twins Effect (2003) - Reeve
• My Wife Is 18 (2002) - Cheung
• Women from Mars (2002) - Tom Kan
• Second Time Around (2002) - Ren Lee
• Running Out of Time 2 (2001) - The Thief
• Fight Zone (2001) - Young Inspector Dark
• The Legend of Zu (2001) - King Sky
• Goodbye, Mr. Cool (2001) - Cool Dragon
• Born to Be King (2000) - Chan Ho-Nam
• Those Were the Days (2000) - Chan Ho-Nam
• The Duel (2000) - Simon the Snow Blower 'Saint of Sword'
• Tokyo Raiders (2000) - Yung
• For Bad Boys Only (2000) - King Chan
• Help!!! (2000) - Joe
• Dragon Heat (2000)
• The Legend of Speed (1999) - Sky
• A Man Called Hero (1999) - Hero Hua
• Hot War (1998) - Tango One/Paul Wong
• The Storm Riders (1998) - Whispering Wind
• Young and Dangerous V (1998) (as Dior Cheng) - Chan Ho-Nam
• Portland Street Blues (1998) - Chan Ho-Nam
• We're No Bad Guys (1997) - Plane
• Young and Dangerous 4 (1997) - Ho Nam
• Young and Dangerous, Part I (1996) - Ho Nam
• Feel 100% (1996) - Jerry
• Feel 100%... Once More (1996) - Marco
• Young and Dangerous 2 (1996) - Ho Nam
• Young & Dangerous III (1996) - Chan Ho-Nam
• I'm Your Birthday Cake (1995) (as Dior Cheng) - Water Lam
• The Mean Street Story (1995) (as Dior Cheng) - Melvin Wong
• Let's Go Slam Dunk (1994) - Boh San
• Why Wild Girls (1994) - Mike
• Mermaid Got Married (1994) (as Dior Cheng) - Chi
• All of the Winners (1994)
• Return to a Better Tomorrow (1994) (as Dior Cheng) - Tong Chun
• Future Cops (1993) - Kent/Ken
• Lord of the Wu Tang (1993) (as Dior Cheng) - Cameo appearance
• Boys Are Easy (1993) (as Dior Cheng) - Lee Chi Ko
• Girls Without Tomorrow 1992 (1992) (as Dior Cheng) - Onn

External links

• Ekin Club International (under construction)
• BMA's Official Website for Ekin / Ekin's Blog
• IMDB entry

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