Education
Rivers hails from Gympie, Queensland, and attended medical school at University of New South Wales, where he was friends with students from Hong Kong who introduced to Cantopop.
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Gregory Rivers
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Career
After obtaining his degree in 1987, he moved to Hong Kong. Now speaking fluent Cantonese, he was a TVB actor until 2008. As a debutant with a modicum of Cantonese, Rivers auditioned for a role for a caucasian at TVB and was surprisingly chosen.
Rivers adopted a Chinese name, made up of the Chinese equivalent of "river" (河) and the name of his idol Leslie Cheung.
He jokes that he was "TVB"s token Caucasian for 20 years straight", having played many different stereotyped roles in more than 200 dramas for TVB. He has also appeared on stage, as protagonist, in 2005. The Aussie often says that in Hong Kong, he"s found America.
He is also a frequent YouTube poster, having his own prolific number of video clips of himself and his many colleagues within the Hong Kong media industry. In October 2007, Rivers was one of the four non-Chinese television actors featured in an in-depth interview and feature story "Hello Neighbour" in Muse, discussing his sense of cultural identity and how he sees his work.
Although from Australia, he voiced the aspirations of Hong Kongers with his commitment to Hong Kong and its way of life.
Achievements
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His performance of the song "Forever ATV", which made fun of the apparent government support for Asia Television – the Hong Kong television station that was on the brink of collapse and finally stripped of its broadcasting licence – was awarded "2015 Hong Kong"s most popular male singer" on TVMost"s 1st Guy Ten Big Ging Cook Gum Cook Awards Distribution in January 2016.
Membership
Two weeks after he landed, he ran into some band members of Alan Tam, who he had driven for whilst in Sydney, and was invited to sing with him.
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Born
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Nationality
Australia