Justin Bieber, Kardashians, K-pop’s Lay Zhang … now Calvin Klein recruits Taiwan’s Greg Hsu as celebrity ambassador for Greater China
Rising star of Netflix drama Nowhere Man and soon to appear in a Chinese-language remake of Korean blockbuster On Your Wedding Day, Taiwanese actor-model Greg Hsu follows global icons Justin Bieber, Nick Jonas, Exo’s Lay Zhang, Bonnie Chen and the Kardashian-Jenner clan as an ambassador for the career-making US fashion brand
Taiwanese model-turned-actor Greg Hsu joins a long list of celebrity ambassadors for the American designer brand Calvin Klein this summer.
Relatively new to the fame game, the 29-year-old talent is the latest spokesperson for the Greater China region for the Spring/Summer 2020 Jeans collection. With an expanding fan club, his Instagram account has a respectable 734,000 followers, while on Weibo, where the star is far more active, he has over 4 million.
Here are three things to know about the rising star.
A star in the making
At just 13 years old, Hsu appeared in Jay Chou's Class 3-2 music video. A decade later, he stole hearts with his roles in the hit dramas Love of Sandstorm (2016) and Someday or One Day (2019), triggering his rise to stardom.
In 2011, he took part as a contestant in the reality TV show Finding Mr Right on Taiwan’s Channel V.
Testing his acting chops, he had a challenging role in the 2017 television show Have You Ever Fallen in Love, Miss Jiang? (now available globally on Netflix), and was nominated as best supporting actor for the role at the 52nd Golden Bell Awards, a gala awards night held annually in Taiwan. In the Faro Island Film Festival 2020, he won the audience best new performer award
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