Chen Hanwei Biography

Tan Hung Wee was born on 29 August 1969. He is better known by his Chinese stage name Chen Hanwei. He is a Malaysian actor and Mediacorp artiste based in Singapore. He was crowned the Best Actor five times at the annual Star Awards in the years, 2001, 2005, 2009. 2010 and 2017, sharing the best Actor wins with Xie Shaoguang (who also has five wins).

Chen received the All-Time Favourite Artiste Award at the Star Awards 20 after being voted as the Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes for 10 years. At the Star Awards 2015, Chen was nominated for both the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor in which he won the latter for his role as the villainous Hu Weiren in The Journey: Tumultuous Times. He is also known for a song, 关怀方式, sung together with Chua Lee Lian.

Hanwei grew up in Kampung Ungku Mohsin, Johor Bahru, Malaysia. Adopted since birth, Hanwei was raised in an impoverished background but successfully completed his studies at Foon Yew High School, one of the country’s Chinese independent schools.

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Chen Hanwei was born on 29 August 1969. He is currently 50 years old as of 2019.

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Chen Hanwei and Zoe Tay have been close friends for quite a long time and been dating and living together. They refer to each other as “close friends” and “best friends forever”.

Chen Hanwei And Zoe Tay

Well, things – specifically, the size of their bank accounts – have changed, but they’ve remained as chummy as ever. Our interview at the imaging session for Channel 8 drama A Million Dollar Dream, in which they pair up as husband and wife for the second time after 2008’s By My Side, consisted largely of the A-listers gleefully exposing each other’s over-the-top purchases.

According to Hanwei, Zoe has so many shoes at home that “if you opened her closet, they would flatten you in an instant”. When we asked Zoe to come clean about exactly how many pairs of footwear she owns, she tried to shrug off the question with “I don’t remember”, which only served to prove Hanwei’s point in his book. “The fact that she cannot remember is scary,” he quipped.

The 48-year-old then continued his attack by revealing that Zoe has at least one handbag with a six-figure price tag in her collection, a statement that she neither confirmed nor denied with her silence (and an ever-so-subtle eye-roll).

Of course, Zoe had her own “accusations” up her sleeve: the 49-year-old let on that Hanwei practically donates money to hospitals thanks to his overly frequent check-ups. “He goes to the doctor when he gets a pimple, and he sees a specialist for an ordinary stomach ache,” she said.

While Hanwei fervently refuted his BFF’s dramatic reports, he did admit that he is in the habit of going for regular physical examinations and that his biggest recent splurge was an endoscopy on his digestive system worth – get ready for this – a whopping $10,000. “It’s necessary when you get to this age!” he defended himself. “And besides, I made an insurance claim.”

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‘Best friends forever’ Zoe Tay and Chen Hanwei live it up in Okinawa

Updated: 25 May 2018

Singapore veteran actress Zoe Tay recently enjoyed a week-long holiday trip with fellow actor Chen Hanwei on Japan’s Okinawa island.

Tay documented the trip last week on her Instagram account, where she described the two of them as “old friends” and “bff” (best friends forever). Among other activities, the actors went snorkelling and gorged themselves on Okinawan cuisine.

Here they are having set meals of sea urchin and rice:

Here they are getting ready for a snorkelling session:

Here is Tay admiring the scenery by the sea:

Here she is donning a traditional kimono:

And here they are being served a ridiculous amount of fish roe with rice:

Tay and Chen have remained close friends after spending multiple decades in show business, with both having co-starred in numerous TV dramas such as By My Side (2008), Devotion (2011) and The Dream Makers.

Source: https://sg.style.yahoo.com

Chen Hanwei Celebrates His Record-Breaking Sixth Star Awards Best Actor Win By Cooking Instant Noodles

Maggi mee is good enough for a starving man who also happens to be the most awarded leading man in Mediacorp.

Just two years after winning Best Actor in 2017, the same year Zoe Tay also coupled him for Best Acting honours, Chen Hanwei has yet again bagged the Best Actor trophy, at the Star Awards 2019, but he’s distracted from his win by… hunger pangs. “Wah, I’m going home to cook Maggi mee. I’m so hungryyy! I just want something to eat,” he groans to 8days.sg at the show’s afterparty, which took place last night (April 14) at Mediacorp’s MES Theatre.

Just then, a minder hands Hanwei a small plate, on which rests a single tempura prawn, one piece of fried chicken and a square of chocolate cake. Hanwei clutches the plate gratefully, but he can barely lift his fork before he’s bombarded by excited strangers eager for a photo with the Best Actor.

Hanwei has no time to finish a fried prawn, let alone celebrate his win, but still, there’s plenty for him to celebrate. He’s the only actor to have won the Best Actor award six times, even more than actor Xie Shaoguang’s five gongs. This year, he was crowned the winner for playing retrenched adman Zhang Zicheng in the Ch 8 drama A Million Dollar Dream, who wins a million-dollar Toto prize under magical circumstances and grapples with the consequences of his windfall.

If you ask Hanwei, he’d tell you luck plays almost no part in winning awards. He explains, “I used to think awards is all about luck. But other than hard work, your attitude towards your craft is very important. Everyone wants to win an award, but before that happens, you need to ask yourself if you have put in the necessary work to earn an award. I feel very humbled [by my win]. When I was young, I wanted to get to know myself better. But as I grow older as an actor, it’s important that I know less of myself so that I can immerse myself in my characters.”

So how’s Hanwei — who joked in his acceptance speech that his schedule’s so packed that it feels like he’s running “a million-dollar business” — going to celebrate his momentous win after tonight, when he is not so swamped? “I just plan to have dinner with some of the crew to thank them, ’cos without them I wouldn’t be able to accomplish much,” he tells us.

Oh, and spend more time with his folks, whom he also specially thanked in his speech. Hanwei’s parents, who live in Johor Bahru, are in their eighties now. “I haven’t spent much time with them in recent years ’cos I was too busy with work,” he says. “So I hope to take them on holiday more often. We went to Taipei last year, so I hope to do a trip like that with them this year too. It doesn’t matter where we go lah. I’ll take them wherever they want to go, as long as they’re happy!”

Source: Today Online