Natalie Wong
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Natalie Kei Ying Wong (Chinese name: 黃𨥈瑩, sometimes credited as 黃紀瑩 or 黃釲瑩), born on July 15, 1976 in Hong Kong is a Chinese actress affiliated with TVB in Hong Kong.
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[edit] Miss Hong Kong start
Natalie entered the Miss Hong Kong Pageant in 1994 while studying business in college. From the start she was deemed a favourite by the Hong Kong media, and she nabbed the Miss Photogenic award early on in the Semi-Finals. However, due to her average performance in the Finals, she lost her bid for the crown to winner Halina Tam 譚小環, first runner-up Annamarie Wood 活麗明, second runner-up Theresa Lee 李綺紅.
[edit] Contract with TVB
Due to her popularity during the contest, TVB quickly signed with her and cast her as one of the leading female roles in the sitcom "Happy Harmony" (餐餐有宋家), which aired from October 1994 to March 1995. With below average acting talent, she went on to second female leads in subsequent TVB Dramas after her run on "Happy Harmony".
In 1998, she was sent to host the long-running infotainment show, "K-100". Because of the hosting duties, Natalie was not able to take on any acting roles while she hosted. And due to the lack of exposure on TVB Dramas during this time, Natalie's popularity quickly decreased. Upon completing her duties on K-100 in 2000, she filmed "Prison On Fire - Plaintive Destiny 監獄風雲之夜囚" as the female lead and continued to take roles in TVB Dramas. However, the roles offered to her were mostly minor ones. Only until 2006 have roles for Natalie been greater in value, with her most recent being a major supporting role in "To Grow with Love" (肥田囍事) alongside Myolie Wu and Andy Hui. Because of the hosting exposure from "K-100", Natalie is regularly assigned to emcee live events and galas.
[edit] Middle Chinese character
The middle character, "𨥈" is an old Chinese scripture meaning royalty and is not readily available in most Chinese typing software. In fact, the character was only recently available as an add-on to the Unicode software Extention-B package. Therefore, a lot of media has just used the character "紀" (which has the same pronunciation) or incorrectly use a similar looking character "釲" (which is pronounced differently) in place of the original character.
[edit] Selected filmography
[edit] Television
- 1994 - 1995 Happy Harmony 餐餐有宋家
- 1995 Mutual Affection 河東獅吼
- 1995 Money Just Can't Buy 天降財神
- 1996 Mystery Files 迷離檔案
- 1997 Old Time Buddy 難兄難弟
- 1997 The Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils 天龍八部
- 2000 Love Without Boundaries 緣份無邊界
- 2000 Street Fighters 廟街•媽•兄弟
- 2002 Let's Face It 無考不成冤家
- 2002 Eternal Happiness 再生緣
- 2002 Square Pegs 戇夫成龍
- 2003 Not Just A Pretty Face 美麗在望
- 2004 Wars Of In-Laws 我的野蠻奶奶
- 2005 Just Love 老婆大人'
- 2005 Ten Brothers
- 2006 La Femme Desperado 女人唔易做
- 2006 To Grow with Love 肥田囍事
[edit] Film
- 1997 03:00AM 夜半3點鐘
- 1998 Troublesome Night 3 陰陽路3之升棺發財
- 2001 Prison On Fire - Plaintive Destiny 監獄風雲之夜囚
