HONG KONG — Veteran Hong Kong actor Kenneth Tsang has died whereas in a Covid-19 quarantine hotel in the southern Chinese metropolis, native media reported.
Tsang was finest recognized internationally for his motion roles in the 2002 James Bond movie “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 present process seven days of quarantine after getting back from Singapore on Monday and was discovered collapsed on the ground of his hotel room by workers on Wednesday, based on the South China Morning Post and different media.
The South China Morning Post mentioned Tsang was 87 however different sources gave his age as 86.
No reason for demise was given and the paper mentioned he had examined damaging for the virus and had no underlying medical circumstances.
In all, Tsang had some 237 performing credit, primarily in Hong Kong movie and tv productions, and particularly in detective and martial arts motion pictures, based on his IMDb web page.
Born in Shanghai, Tsang started performing after acquiring an structure diploma on the University of California, Berkeley, making his debut in 1955. In 1969 alone, he was credited in greater than 20 motion pictures and continued working as much as the time of his demise.
Tsang was married thrice and had a son together with his first spouse, Lan Di, and a daughter together with his second spouse, Barbara Tang.
Hong Kong is coping with a renewed outbreak in circumstances of the extremely transmissible omicron variant and requires all inbound vacationers to bear quarantine for as much as 14 days.