Andrew Seow () is a Singaporean actor, celebrity, model and media personality. Seow was a model in Singapore and Asia before becoming an actor on local television. He is best known for his role as Gary Tay as the fiery tempered eldest son in the family drama series, '' Growing Up'' on MediaCorp TV Channel 5 and

okto Okto is a daily children's program block on Mediacorp's Channel 5. The block airs daily during 5's morning and midafternoon time slots. It is also a weekend Mandarin children's program block on Mediacorp's Channel 8. It airs every weekend fro ...

, earning him the Best Newcomer in the annual

Asian Television Awards The Asian Television Awards (launched in 1996), is an appreciation to recognize and reward programming and production excellence in the Asian television industry. Held every December, the Awards comprises 56 categories across news, documentarie ...

in 1996. Seow has also starred in numerous Chinese dramas on Channel 8, garnering several nominations in the annual

Star Awards The Star Awards (Chinese: 红星大奖) are awards for artistic and technical merit in the media organisation Mediacorp of Singapore where Mediacorp recognises entertainers under their employment for outstanding performances of the year. The ...

Education

Seow studied at

Catholic High School Catholic schools are pre-primary, primary and secondary educational institutions administered under the aegis or in association with the Catholic Church. , the Catholic Church operates the world's largest religious, non-governmental school syste ...

and St. Patrick's School. He earned an

Advanced Diploma is the Japanese original academic degree given to people who had spent more than 4 years and successfully completed a particular specialized course of study at the vocational schools certified by Japanese MEXT (the educational ministry of the Japa ...

in fashion design, jewellery design and merchandising from

LaSalle College LaSalle College (French: Collège LaSalle) was founded in 1959 by fashion designer Jean-Paul Morin. The college offers over 60 pre-university, technical and professional programs and is the largest bilingual college in North America. The coll ...

Career

Seow was talent-spotted by a

Television Corporation of Singapore Mediacorp Pte. Ltd., doing business as Mediacorp and stylised as mediacorp, is a media conglomerate in Singapore. Owned by Temasek Holdings—the holding company of the Government of Singapore—it owns television, radio, and digital media prope ...

(TCS) producer in 1996 and subsequently joined TCS. Alongside

Thomas Ong Thomas Ong Thian Chai (, born 1 February 1969) is a Singaporean actor, television host and businessman who films on an ad-hoc basis. An irregular employee of MediaCorp, he has joined and left the company several times to concentrate on other p ...

and Raymond Yong as part of the Five Dragons, Seow was groomed by the television studio.

Filmography

Television

Theatre

*2002 **Close: In Your Face by The Necessary Stage

Awards and nominations

References

Singaporean people of Chinese descent Singaporean television personalities Singaporean male television actors Catholic High School, Singapore alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Singapore-actor-stub