鄭則仕

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鄭則仕1951年生，原名鄭則時，人稱肥Kent、Kent哥、肥貓、老虎狗，係香港男演員，曾憑電影《何必有我？》及《三個受傷的警察》榮獲兩屆香港電影金像獎最佳男主角殊榮。佢籍貫廣東潮州，在汕頭出生，幼年時跟隨父母移居香港，於香港島灣仔登龍街一帶嘅天台單位居住，後移居橫頭磡徙置區；出身貧窮家庭，是家中長子，一家共有八口。鄭則仕中學未畢業就到珠寶店做學徒；由於深受演員馮寶寶影響，自小對戲劇產生很大興趣，曾於小學四年級以「我的志願」為題作文，謂長大後要做演員，卻被老師斥責貪慕虛榮。他1965年畢業於香港紅卍字會九龍卍慈小學（該校第一屆畢業生），同年獲派入讀英華書院，完成中一年級課程後因家境只夠供一個孩子升學而選擇輟學，讓胞弟繼續唸中學。佢14歲投身社會到首飾工場當鑲嵌技工學徒，期間曾到陳樹渠紀念中學夜校部進修，直至1972年滿師未幾轉到景福珠寶當金飾師傅，在珠寶業前後發展十年。1973年至1974年，鄭則仕透過參加長弓電影公司培訓班而入行，早期多演跑龍套角色，其後憑《何必有我？》飾演智障青年「肥貓」而奠定演技派地位，並在電視延續肥貓角色，成為香港流行文化標記。

English

Kent Cheng, born in 1951 as Cheng Jak-si and nicknamed Fat Kent, Brother Kent and Fat Cat, is a Hong Kong actor who has twice won the Hong Kong Film Award for best actor, for Why Me? and for a 1996 police drama. Of Chaozhou descent, he was born in Shantou and moved to Hong Kong as a small child, living first in a rooftop flat on a Wan Chai street and later in a resettlement estate in Wang Tau Hom; he was the eldest of eight in a poor family. He left school before finishing secondary education to work as a jewellery apprentice, and having been captivated by the child actress Fung Bo-bo he wrote an essay at primary school declaring his ambition to be an actor, for which a teacher scolded him for vanity. He graduated from a primary school in Kowloon in 1965 as a member of its first cohort and was allocated a place at Ying Wa College the same year, but after Form One his family could afford to educate only one child and he dropped out so his younger brother could continue. At fourteen he became an apprentice gem setter, taking evening classes, and around 1972 he qualified and worked as a goldsmith — spending a decade in the jewellery trade. He entered the industry in 1973–74 through a film company's training course, initially playing bit parts; his portrayal of an intellectually disabled young man later sealed his reputation as a serious actor, and the character became a pop-culture landmark when he revived it on television.