Patrick Tse
謝賢
Born	Tse Ka-yuk (謝家鈺) (1936-08-09) August 9, 1936 (age 87) Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Nationality	Chinese Canadian
Other names	Tse Yin
Occupations	Actor producer director
Years active	1952–present
Spouses	Chen Chen (actress) ​ ​ (m. 1974; div. 1978)​ Deborah Lee [zh] ​ ​ (m. 1979; div. 1996)​
Partner	Coco (2005–2017, 2018–present)
Children	Nicholas Tse (son), with Lee Jennifer Tse (daughter), with Lee
Tse Yin
Traditional Chinese	謝賢
Simplified Chinese	谢贤
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Xiè Xián Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Ze6 Jin4
Tse Ka-yuk
Traditional Chinese	謝家鈺
Simplified Chinese	谢家钰
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Xiè Jiā-yù Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Ze6 Gaa1-yuk6
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Patrick Tse Yin (born Tse Ka-yuk; 9 August 1936)^[1] is a Hong Kong actor, producer, screenwriter and director in Hong Kong cinema.

Biography

Patrick Tse began his acting career in the 1950s and remained active for the next 40 years. He is a versatile and popular actor, usually playing the leading male roles.^[2]

Tse worked briefly as writer, director and producer in the 1970s:

• If Tomorrow Comes (1973) as producer/director
• Madness of Love (1972) as director
• One Year's Fantasy (1974) as writer/director
• Love in Cubicle (1974) as writer/director
• Farewell Dearest (1974) as director
• The Splendid Love in Winter (1974) as writer/director
• Love in Hawaii (1976) as producer/director
• Confused Love (1977) as director

He stopped acting in the 1990s after immigrating to Canada, but returned to acting in 1999.

In 2022, Tse won his first ever Best Actor award^[3] from the Hong Kong Film Critics Society for the movie Time.^[4]

Filmography

Films

This is a partial list of films.

Television

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Personal life

In 1974, Tse married Zhen Zhen (Chinese: 甄珍), a Beijing-born Taiwanese actress, but they divorced in 1978.^[16]

Tse's second wife was Deborah Lee (Chinese: 狄波拉), a Hong Kong actress. They have two children, Hong Kong actor-singer Nicholas Tse and actress and model Jennifer Tse. Tse and his family lived in Vancouver after his retirement from acting, but his family has since returned to Hong Kong. In 1996, Tse divorced Deborah Lee. In 2005, Tse's girlfriend is Coco, Shanghai girl who is 49 years his junior.^[17][18] Tse and Coco previously broke up in late 2017^[19] and had since got back together again in late 2018.^[20]