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Tai Bo

ActorDirectorProducerHongkonger

BIOGRAPHY

Tai Bo, whose given name is Cheung Ka-nin, is a Hong Kong actor whose screen career began in 1973. He spent part of his childhood in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, where he completed primary school, before his family moved to Hong Kong. He started out as a stuntman and took small parts in Hong Kong action cinema, working frequently alongside Jackie Chan’s stunt team, and appeared in titles such as Enter the Dragon, Ninja in the Dragon’s Den, Police Story and Drunken Master II. He has since accumulated more than two hundred and fifty film and television credits across Hong Kong and Taiwan productions. In 1984 he received Hong Kong Film Award and Golden Horse Award nominations for The Public Servant, and in 2000 he won the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 2019 he took the leading role of Pak in Ray Yeung’s film Twilight’s Kiss, for which he won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor in 2020. He continues to work in television, including the 2025 series Mobius.

PROFILE DETAILS

Native Name
太保
Real Name
Cheung Ka-nin (Chang Chia-nien)
Born
(Age 75)
Birthplace
Hong Kong
Current Residence
Taiwan
Gender
Male
Western Zodiac
Libra ♎
Height
178
Profession
ActorDirectorProducer
Nationality
Hongkonger
Debut
1973 · Enter the Dragon (1973)
Agency / Label
Eelin Entertainment
Years Active
1973 to present
Languages
Cantonese, Mandarin
Skills
Martial arts, stunt work

FILMOGRAPHY: FILMS (1)

Twilight's Kiss poster
Twilight’s Kiss
2019
Main Role

PERSONAL LIFE

Favorite Foods
oyster vermicelli, which he has said he enjoys eating in the Ximending district of Taipei

FUN FACTS

  • His screen debut came in the 1973 film Enter the Dragon.
  • He worked repeatedly with Jackie Chan's stunt team without being an official member.
  • He won a Golden Bell Award in Taiwan in 2007 for the television drama Iron Tree Blossoms.
  • He has held both Hong Kong and Republic of China identity.
  • His stage name 太保 came from Hong Kong friends who nicknamed him for being the Taiwanese one among them.
  • His given name is 張嘉年 and he was born on 21 October 1950.
  • He appeared in Hou Hsiao-hsien's A City of Sadness.
  • He won Best Supporting Actor at the Golden Bell Awards in 2007 and was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Golden Horse Awards in 2000.
  • He has appeared in more than one hundred film and television productions across five decades.

TRIVIA

  • He began his career as a stuntman in Hong Kong action cinema.
  • He completed primary school in Kaohsiung, Taiwan before his family moved to Hong Kong.
  • He has appeared in more than two hundred and fifty films and television productions.
  • He won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor in 2020 for Twilight's Kiss.
  • He received the Star Asia Lifetime Achievement Award at the New York Asian Film Festival in 2024.
  • Born in 1950, he grew up in Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan and moved to Hong Kong after finishing primary school there.
  • His father was a military officer.
  • In his early twenties he enrolled in a Shaw Brothers film training programme and began on the production side as a script supervisor before moving in front of the camera.
  • He followed the actor Wu Ma 午馬 into the film business and treated him as his teacher.
  • He was a member of the Jackie Chan Stunt Team 成家班 and did action work on films including Police Story, Wheels on Meals and Dragons Forever, performing falls from six or seven storeys in an era without modern safety equipment.
  • He speaks both Taiwanese Hokkien and Mandarin, which is one reason he has worked so heavily in Taiwanese film and television.
  • Named as a mentor or teacher in published interviews: Wu Ma 午馬.

DREAMS & ASPIRATIONS

He has said that in his later years he would like to move into producing and make films that tell meaningful human stories rather than keep acting indefinitely.

NOTABLE AWARDS

1984, Hong Kong Film Awards, Best Supporting Actor, Nominated
1984, Golden Horse Awards, Best Supporting Actor, Nominated
2000, Golden Horse Awards, Best Supporting Actor, Won
2000, Taipei Film Awards, Best Supporting Actor, Won
2007, Golden Bell Awards, Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series, Won
2019, Golden Horse Awards, Best Leading Actor, Nominated
2019, Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards, Best Actor, Won
2020, Hong Kong Film Awards, Best Actor, Won
2020, Hong Kong Film Directors’ Guild Awards, Best Actor, Won
2020, Asian Film Awards, Best Actor, Nominated
2024, New York Asian Film Festival, Star Asia Lifetime Achievement Award, Won

EDUCATION

Primary schooling in Kaohsiung, Taiwan

CAREER AT A GLANCE

Tai Bo holds one record in this catalogue: one leading role.

It dates from 2019.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Where does the name Tai Bo come from?

From friends in Hong Kong. His given name is 張嘉年, romanised as Cheung Ka-nin and also as Chang Chia-nien, and 太保 was a nickname they gave him for being the Taiwanese one among them. He had finished primary school in Kaohsiung before his family moved to Hong Kong.

How did he get into films?

From behind the camera. In his early twenties he enrolled in a Shaw Brothers training programme and started on the production side as a script supervisor before moving in front of the lens. He followed the actor Wu Ma 午馬 into the business and treated him as his teacher.

What did the stunt years actually involve?

Action work on films including Police Story, Wheels on Meals and Dragons Forever, and falls from six or seven storeys in an era before modern safety equipment. His screen career opens in 1973 with Enter the Dragon, and more than two hundred and fifty credits follow it.

Was he a member of the Jackie Chan Stunt Team or not?

This profile says both, and the contradiction is left visible. One entry lists him as a member of 成家班, another says he worked repeatedly with the team without ever being an official member. The action credits themselves are not in dispute; the membership is.

Why is so much of his work Taiwanese?

Language, mostly. He speaks Taiwanese Hokkien as well as Mandarin, which opened Taiwanese film and television to him, and he has held both Hong Kong and Republic of China identity. His work there takes in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s A City of Sadness and the drama Iron Tree Blossoms, which won him a Golden Bell Award in 2007.

What did Twilight's Kiss change for him?

It handed a career supporting player a leading role, Pak, and the prizes that follow one. He won Best Actor at the 2020 Hong Kong Film Awards, the Hong Kong Film Critics Society award in 2019 and the Film Directors’ Guild award in 2020, with Golden Horse and Asian Film Award nominations beside them.

What does he say he wants to do next?

Move into producing. He has said that in his later years he would rather make films that tell meaningful human stories than go on acting indefinitely. The New York Asian Film Festival gave him its Star Asia Lifetime Achievement Award in 2024.

Written and verified by Renkaze · Last updated 19 September 2026

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