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Chen Edison

English name: Edison Chen
Profession: Actor and singer
Height: 178cm
Weight: 65kg
Star sign: Libra
Chinese zodiac: Monkey
Blood type: A

Edison Chen (CHEN Edison / 陳冠希 (陈冠希)) is a Hong Kong actor, born on Tuesday, October 7, 1980, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Is also a singer
Has 2 sisters
Languages spoken: Cantonese, English, Mandarin (a little), Japanese (a little)
Went to high school at the Hong Kong International School (HKIS)
Is of Chinese and Macanese (mixed Chinese-Portuguese) descent.
Passed on an offer from Universal to co-star in Fast and the Furious 3: Tokyo Drift.
Heads a Hong Kong-based fashion design squad named CLOT, which has collaborated with Nike and has released a clothing line named Alienegra.
Born in Canada, return to Hongkong in 2000 to start career.
2nd elder sister is Tricia Chan Kin Fei.
Posed for renowned Singaporean photographer Leslie Kee for Kee's 2006 charity photo-book "Super Stars", dedicated to the victims of the 2004 Asian tsunami disaster, which consists of photographs (mostly erotic) of 300 Asian celebrities by Kee.
Publicly announced that he intended to step away indefinitely from the Hong Kong entertainment industry, due to a photo scandal - that involved intimate photographs taken by him with various Hong Kong actresses - devoting his time instead to public causes. [February 21, 2008]