Nicholas Tse Ting-fung is a Hong Kong actor, singer, songwriter, entrepreneur and TV chef. Tse debuted as a singer in 1996 before shifting his career focus to acting. In 2011, he won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Stool Pigeon, making him the first person to have won in the three major acting categories, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Best New Performer, at the Hong Kong Film Awards.

The Stool Pigeon is a 2010 Hong Kong-Chinese action thriller film directed by Dante Lam and starring Nicholas Tse, Nick Cheung and Gwei Lun-mei. The film is about police detective, Don Lee (Cheung), who uses informants to gain information about gangsters. Lee begins to feel guilty when his informants are caught, but sends out a street racer named Ghost (Tse) as an informant to gain information about a gangster name Barbarian.