Louis Koo Tin-lok (born 21 October 1970) is a Hong Kong actor and film producer. He joined TVB in 1993 and rose to fame in 1995 as Yeung Guo in The Return of the Condor Heroes, going on to star in dramas such as Detective Investigation Files IV, At the Threshold of an Era and A Step into the Past; he was named TVB's favourite actor in 1999 for Detective Investigation Files IV and again took the top acting prize in 2001 for A Step into the Past. Moving to film in the late 1990s, he appeared in titles such as Fat Choi Spirit (2002), Throw Down (2004), Election (2005), Protege and Drug War, ranging from comedy to crime and gangster roles, and starred in the Overheard series (2009, 2011, 2014) and Drug War (2013). In 2018 he won Best Actor at the 37th Hong Kong Film Awards and Best Actor at the 12th Asian Film Awards for his role as a grieving policeman father in Paradox. In 2013 he founded One Cool Film Production, backing local films, and served as Hong Kong International Film Festival ambassador for five consecutive years from 2014 to 2018. He became chairman of the Hong Kong Performing Artistes Guild in 2018 and was re-elected several times, and in 2021 also became chairman of the Federation of Hong Kong Filmmakers. In 2022 he produced and starred in Warriors of Future, one of Hong Kong's rare large-scale science-fiction productions, and in 2024 starred in and invested in Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In as Cyclone. He has also quietly funded the building of many schools on the mainland.
Louis Koo has put money into filmmaking and backed new directors, taken on the rare Hong Kong science-fiction project Warriors of Future, and extended the momentum of local action cinema with Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In, making a real contribution to the output and range of recent Hong Kong films. His years of funding schools on the mainland have also drawn public attention to an actor's social role.
Achievements
- 1995 · Rose to fame as Yeung Guo in The Return of the Condor Heroes
- 2013 · Founded One Cool Film Production
- 2018 · Won Best Actor at the 37th Hong Kong Film Awards for Paradox