Neo Yau

Yau first came into contact with film as the second assistant director in The Boy Who Shouted Teresa in 2012. He started his acting career in 2013 by acting in Sam Hui Yat (The phonetic translation of the Cantonese title, literally meaning Three Minus One). Yau gained fame after the release of She Remembers, He Forgets in 2015, in which he portrayed the young version of Pang Shing-wa (adult version portrayed by Jan Lamb). In the same year, he was invited to promote Pandora in Christmas with his then-girlfriend Cecilia So.

Yau was very passionate and enthusiastic as an actor and vowed to never give up acting. In his self-introduction in the column of Mocking Jer in Ming Pao, he affirmed that acting was his life-long career. In addition, during an interview with Cecilia So in Stand News, he compared films to his eyes such that he can see this world through movie and this is a world that he wants to dedicate himself to.

In 2019, Yau wrote, produced and directed the drama series Haters Gonna Stay and played its leading role Chau Lok-chau. The series was based on the generational tension through the narratives of Chau and his grandfather. Among the four roles he concurrently served during the production, he said he preferred that of director.

In 2024, Yau starred in The Way We Talk, which earned him a nomination for Best Leading Actor at the 61st Golden Horse Awards, marking his first nomination for a Golden Horse Award.