Andy Lau is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer, actor, and film producer. Andy Lau has been one of Hong Kong`s most commercially successful film actors since the mid-1980s.

In the 1990s, Andy Lau was branded by the media as one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Cantopop.

As a young boy Andy Lau had to fetch water for his family up to eight times a day. He later graduated from a Band One Secondary School, Ho Lap College in San Po Kong, Kowloon.