Hong Kong actor Kenneth Tsang dies in quarantine hotel

Apr 27, 2022, 1:46 PM | Updated: Apr 28, 2022, 4:35 am
FILE -Hong Kong actor Kenneth Tsang poses after winning the Best Supporting Actor award for his mov...

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. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

(AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

              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. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)
            
              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. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

HONG KONG (AP) — 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.

The South China Morning Post said Tsang was 87 but other sources gave his age as 86.

No cause of death was given and the paper said he had tested negative for the virus and had no underlying medical conditions.

In all, Tsang had some 237 acting credits, mainly in Hong Kong film and television productions, and especially in detective and martial arts movies, according to his IMDb page.

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.

Tsang was married three times and had a son with his first wife, Lan Di, and a daughter with his second wife, Barbara Tang.

Hong Kong is dealing with a renewed outbreak in cases of the highly transmissible omicron variant and requires all inbound travelers to undergo quarantine for up to 14 days.

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Hong Kong actor Kenneth Tsang dies in quarantine hotel