Actor

Derek Yee

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Large and steady acting portfolio.

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1.2

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Movies: 97Series: 11Crew credits: 41

TMDB ID: 240150

IMDb ID: nm0232504

Known for: Acting

Born: December 28, 1957

Age: 68

Place of birth: Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China]

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1969 - 2025

Years active: 57

Average TMDB rating: 6.59

Wikidata: Q960141

Also known as

爾冬陞 • Yee Tung-Shing • Derek Yee • 尔冬升 • 이동승

Other jobs

Producer (19)Director (16)Writer (5)Creator (1)

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Biography

Derek Yee Tung-sing (Chinese: 爾冬陞, born 28 December 1957), is a former Shaw Brothers actor from Hong Kong, currently a film director and screenwriter, who has achieved fame and respect in Hong Kong and international film festival circuits for treading carefully commercial viability concerns with artistic integrity. He is the younger half-brother of famed Hong Kong actors Paul Chun and David Chiang, the latter also a former Shaw Brothers star. Yee has starred in over 40 movies in Hong Kong between 1975 and 1986, during the time when Shaw Brothers Studio were still producing movies. Since then Yee turned to screenwriting and directing and has made a career out of making films like C'est la vie, mon chéri, Viva Erotica and The Truth About Jane and Sam and also gritty dramas like One Night in Mongkok and Protégé. Derek Yee was a former boyfriend of Hong Kong actress Maggie Cheung.

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