Hong Kong media report that veteran actor Kenneth Tsang has died while in a COVID-19 quarantine hotel. Tsang was best known internationally for his action roles in the 2002 James Bond film “Die Another Day' and John Woo's “The Killer' in 1989.
FILE -Hong Kong actor Kenneth Tsang poses after winning the Best Supporting Actor award for his movie "Overhead 3" during the Hong Kong Film Awards in Hong Kong Sunday, April 19, 2015. Hong Kong media reported that Tsang was found dead Wednesday in his quarantine hotel room after arriving from Singapore.
HONG KONG — Veteran Hong Kong actor Kenneth Tsang has died while in a COVID-19 quarantine hotel in the southern Chinese city, local media reported. Tsang was best known internationally for his action roles in the 2002 James Bond film “Die Another Day,” John Woo’s “The Killer” in 1989, “Rush Hour 2” in 2001 starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, and 1998′s “The Replacement Killers” alongside Chow Yun-Fat and Mira Sorvino.
Tsang had been undergoing seven days of quarantine after returning from Singapore on Monday and was found collapsed on the floor of his hotel room by staff on Wednesday, according to the South China Morning Post and other media.No cause of death was given and the paper said he had tested negative for the virus and had no underlying medical conditions.
Born in Shanghai, Tsang began acting after obtaining an architecture degree at the University of California, Berkeley, making his debut in 1955. In 1969 alone, he was credited in more than 20 movies and continued working up to the time of his death.
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