Kenneth Tsang, ‘Rush Hour 2’ actor, dies of COVID in quarantine hotel

FILE -Hong Kong actor Kenneth Tsang poses after winning the Best Supporting Actor award for his movie "Overhead 3" during the Hong Kong Film Awards in Hong Kong Sunday, April 19, 2015. Hong Kong media reported that Tsang was found dead Wednesday in his quarantine hotel room after arriving from Singapore. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File) ORG XMIT: XKC101

Veteran Hong Kong actor Kenneth Tsang has died although in a COVID-19 quarantine hotel in the southern Chinese town, area media claimed.

Tsang was ideal known internationally for his action roles in the 2002 James Bond movie “Die Another Working 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-Excess fat and Mira Sorvino.

Tsang experienced been undergoing seven days of quarantine following returning from Singapore on Monday and was uncovered collapsed on the floor of his resort home by team on Wednesday, according to the South China Morning Article and other media.

The South China Early morning Put up claimed Tsang was 87 but other sources gave his age as 86.

No trigger of demise was provided and the paper mentioned he experienced analyzed detrimental for the virus and experienced no fundamental medical disorders.

Hong Kong media reported that Tsang was found dead Wednesday in his quarantine hotel room after arriving from Singapore.

In all, Tsang had some 237 acting credits, largely in Hong Kong movie and television productions, and particularly in detective and martial arts flicks, in accordance to his IMDb webpage.

Born in Shanghai, Tsang commenced performing just after obtaining an architecture diploma at the University of California, Berkeley, making his debut in 1955. In 1969 alone, he was credited in extra than 20 videos and continued functioning up to the time of his loss of life.

Tsang was married 3 periods and experienced a son with his initially wife, Lan Di, and a daughter with his next wife, Barbara Tang.

Hong Kong is working with a renewed outbreak in situations of the very transmissible omicron variant and necessitates all inbound tourists to bear quarantine for up to 14 times.