Henick Chou

Chou was born on 17 November 1995.^[a] When he was 5, he auditioned as the voice ensemble of animated movie McDull, Prince de la Bun.^[2] He later attended St Stephen's College and joined numerous singing and acting performances in secondary school.^[3][2] After graduation, he applied for the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts under the encouragement of his mother and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in performing arts in 2018.^[2]

In 2019, Chou landed his first major onscreen role as Chong Tzi Man, an elite schoolkid suffering from depression, in ViuTV drama series Limited Education [zh].^[4] His performance was widely acclaimed and was voted as Best Supporting Actor by the netizens in an annual internet popularity poll hosted by entertainment journalist Fongeman.^[5][6] However, Chou did not receive any new roles afterwards due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[2] Chou was cast in a lead role alongside Sylvia Chang in the 2022 drama film A Light Never Goes Out as a neon sign workshop apprentice.^[7] He was nominated for Best New Performer in the 41st Hong Kong Film Awards.^[8] In 2023, Chou portrayed an intellectually disabled resident in a care home who was abused by the nurses and a hearing-impaired student who was bullied at school respectively in the drama films In Broad Daylight and Time Still Turns the Pages.^[9]