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| Chinese name |
黃秋生 (traditional) |
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| Jyutping |
Wong4 Cau1-sang1 (Cantonese) |
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| Birth name |
Anthony Perry |
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| Ancestry |
British, Chinese (Taishan, Guangdong) |
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| Born |
(1961-09-02) 2 September 1961
Hong Kong |
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| Occupation |
Actor, screenwriter, film director, TV Host |
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| Years active |
1985–present |
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Anthony Perry (born 2 September 1961), better known professionally as Wong Chau-sang (黃秋生) or Anthony Wong, is a Hong Kong film, stage and TV Awards winning British-Hong Kong actor, screenwriter and film director.[1][2][3][4] Wong is perhaps best known in the West for his roles in the 1992 action film Hard Boiled, the 2002 critically acclaimed Infernal Affairs, and as General Yang in the 2008 Hollywood film The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.
Biography
Childhood
Anthony Perry was born on 2 September in 1961 to an English-born sailor, Frederick Perry, and a Hong Kong Chinese mother whose surname Wong adopted as part of his current name, Anthony Wong. His father walked out on the family when he was four, which prompted his mother to relocate the family to Hong Kong. Wong has revealed in his microblog that during his first year in Hong Kong, he lived with his mother "in the staircase of a pre-war building in Wan Chai" until he was sent to live with various relatives for two years while his mother "held down three jobs".
In his acting career, Wong's established a reputation for openly critiquing the Hong Kong film industry and its practices, actors' performances and pop culture in interviews and his personal microblog. In some of those critiques, he's revealed his experiences of being bullied and discriminated against—for being a "mixed race foreigner" and "during the 1960s, English-Chinese mixed-race people like me were regarded as bastards", and for being born outside Hong Kong—while growing up in Hong Kong and during the early years of his acting career.[5][6]
During his late teens, Wong moved to Britain to attend a college of further education.[6] He returned to Hong Kong to attend a training course in hairdressing until he quit to join ATV's training programme when he was 21.[5]
Career
After completing ATV's training programme, he continued his training at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.[6] He had stated in an interview that his mixed ethnicity initially caused him to be typecast as a villain, due to institutionalised racism in the Hong Kong film industry during this period.[7] He, however, won an Hong Kong Film Award for his performance as a real-life serial killer, who made meat buns from his victims' flesh, in The Untold Story in 1993.
In the following years, Wong appeared in a wide range of genre films including Rock n' Roll Cop, Hard Boiled, The Heroic Trio, Infernal Affairs, The Mission and The Medallion. He had also several appearances in the popular Young and Dangerous film series as Tai Fei; a rival Triad gangster to Ekin Cheng's character Chan Ho-nam, an ambitious Triad gangster, whom Tai Fei eventually befriends.
Wong had also appeared in a number of international English-language films including The Painted Veil and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.
In 1995, Wong made his directorial debut with The New Tenant.
In 2014, Wong made his culinary debut in Dinner Confidential, where he would prepare one dish out of a table d'hote candle-lit dinner menu for guests.
In 2015, Wong became the first Hong Kong Actor to had won the Best lead actor role in TV and movies when he won 2015 TVB Anniversary Awards for Best Actor and Best Drama for Lord of Shanghai, marking his triumphant return to TVB. He also became the first Hong Kong actor to had won Best Actor awards in films, stage theatre and TV. He also became the first Hong Kong actor to ever won TVB's Best Actor award on his first nomination.
Personal life
Wong is the lead singer of a local Hong Kong punk rock band. Wong is married and has three sons called Omar Wong, Ulysses Wong and William Wong.[8]
In a 2005 interview with Star eCentral, Wong stated that amongst his prolific output during the 1980s and the 1990s, a considerable number of films he appeared in were poor and exploitative.[9] He, however, has no regrets because he needed the money to support his wife, their sons and his mother.[9]
Awards
Filmography
Television
- The Justice of Life 他來自江湖 (1989), Johnson Man (文忠信)
- When Things Get Tough 午夜太陽 (1990), Tsing Kwan (程軍)
- Lord of Shanghai 梟雄 (2015), Kiu Ngo-tin (喬傲天)
References
- ↑ Daniel O'Brien Spooky Encounters: A Gwailo's Guide to Hong Kong Horror 2003 -- Page 155 "The biggest 'star' to work in this disreputable field is undoubtedly Anthony Wong Chau-sang. Best known to Hong Kong action fans as the lead villain in John Woo's Hard Boiled, Wong gave an award-winning performance in The Untold Story, ."
- ↑ Linda Williams The erotic thriller in contemporary cinema 2005- Page 389 "A prolific action figure such as Anthony Wong, for instance, is able to star in the exemplary Cat III violent shocker The Untold Story (a Sweeny Toddesque tale of everyday cannibalism - he even got a Hong Kong Film Award for the role) or the ..."
- ↑ Botang Zhuo, Tong Cheuk Pak Hong Kong New Wave Cinema: (1978-2000) - 2008 Page 194 "Cheung, a senior police, is actually a traitor, working in complicity with Anthony Wong. ... Besides being in complicity with Anthony Wong, he also frequently made use of his position to interfere with Lee Sau- yin's movements, in order to enable ..."
- ↑ Gina Marchetti Andrew Lau and Alan Mak's Infernal Affairs: The Trilogy -2007 Page 151- "Anthony Wong plays Tung who bridges both sides of the law in Gordon Chan and Dante Lam's Beast Cops (1998), and he won the 1999 Hong Kong Film Award for best actor for that role. Thus, the revelation that SP Wong is literally in bed ...
- 1 2 David Thompson (24 May 2012). "Interview: Anthony Wong Chau Sang". Channel NewsAsia. MediaCorp Pte Ltd. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
- 1 2 3 Thomas Podvin (2005). "Interview With Anthony Wong Chau Sang". Hong Kong Cinemagic. HK Cinemagic. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
- ↑ Interview in HK ORIENT EXTREME CINEMA, N°13, January 2000
- ↑ "Anthony Wong Chau-Sang". LoveHKFilm. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
- 1 2 Chow, Vivienne. "O father, where art thou?". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
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