- published: 26 Nov 2015
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Eric Tsang Chi-wai (曾志偉), MH (born 14 April 1953 in Hong Kong with family roots in Xinhui, Guangdong, China) is a prolific Hong Kong actor, film director, film producer and television host best known for hosting the Super Trio series on TVB over the course of 10 years.
Due to his popularity, he is often the MC in events organized by TVB, and is nicknamed "the Prize Master" (獎門人)). In his youth, Eric was a Hong Kong professional soccer player.
Tsang's father, Tsang Kai-wing, was in the Police Force from 1940 to 1972, and served as a sergeant-major under the legendary "HK$500 Million Sergeant" Lui Lok, so-called for the wealth he earned in bribes received as a police officer. Tsang fled to Taiwan from the ICAC in 1976 after being convicted of corruption and sentenced to three years in jail, while still free pending an appeal. In 2001, the Department of Justice seized his house in La Salle Road and later auctioned it for HK$4.35 million after 10 years of civil proceedings. He died in Taiwan in 2011 with Eric and other family members around him. (Tsang senior was also once briefly a professional soccer player.)