Xie Shaoguang

Who is Xie Shaoguang?

Xie Shaoguang is a Singaporean former actor best known for acting in many Chinese-language television dramas produced by MediaCorp Channel 8.

Since the start of his acting career in 1989 in his first drama A Mother's Love, Xie has received numerous allocades, including winning the Best Actor award five times and the Best Supporting Actor award twice since the Star Awards was given out in 1994, earning him the label of arguably the Best Actor in the country. His achievements in winning one of the Top 10 Most Popular Male Artiste awards consecutively for 10 years since 1995 till 2004 also underscores his strong popularity amongst viewers. In Star Awards 2005, he was awarded the All-Time Favourite Artiste award due to winning the popularity award for 10 times.

In 2005, he formalised his plans to retire from showbiz when he decided not to renew his contract which expired in September the same year, although his intentions to quit has been made known years earlier. He said that after retirement, he would be living in Malaysia, where his friends and himself would be setting up a farm for stray dogs and cats.

Xie's final appearance was in the drama series Baby Blues, which ended its run on 9 September 2005.