Venus Wong Man-yik () is a

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

actress currently contracted to

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and TVB Music Group.

Biography

Early life

Venus Wong was born in 1992 in

Huizhou Huizhou ( zh, c= ) is a city in central-east Guangdong Province, China, forty-three miles north of Hong Kong. Huizhou borders the provincial capital of Guangzhou to the west, Shenzhen and Dongguan to the southwest, Shaoguan to the north, Heyua ...

Guangdong province Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.01 million (as of 2020) ...

and moved to Hong Kong at the age of one with her mother. She attended Christ Church Ching Wan Primary School and Rosehill School.

Career

In 2006, Wong participated in the television show ''Y2K Series'' (Y2K系列) at the age of 14. In 2008, she made her film debut in the movie ''High Noon'' (烈日當空) as a supporting character. In the same year, she appeared in the TV show “性本善” and played a waitress in the film ''Forgive and Forget'' (親愛的). Wong had appeared in a number of supporting roles in films, such as ''To Love or Not to Love'', ''Camera'' and '' Lucky Boy''. After playing a few more minor roles, she studied French at the

City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong (CityU) is a world-class public research university located in Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong. It was founded in 1984 as City Polytechnic of Hong Kong and became a fully accredited university in 1994. Currently, CityU is ...

before dropping out in 2012 to study Drama in New York. She had also appeared in numerous TV commercials and had promoted brands such as Olympus,

Nokia Nokia Corporation (natively Nokia Oyj, referred to as Nokia) is a Finnish multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications industry, telecommunications, technology company, information technology, and consumer electronics corporatio ...

and Brandy. In 2013, Wong filmed her first

drama ''

Never Dance Alone ''Never Dance Alone'' (); filmed under the working title "Aerobic Girls" (), is a Hong Kong television modern inspiration comedy-drama series produced and broadcast by domestic broadcaster TVB in 2014, starring Carman Lee, Rachel Lee, Fennie Yu ...

'', playing the younger version of Rachel Lee’s character. The drama was broadcast in 2014. In 2020, she signed contracts with TVB and The Voice Entertainment（now known as TVB Music Group）.

Personal life

In 2019, Wong married Hong Kong actor

Derek Tsang Derek Tsang Kwok-cheung (; born 8 November 1979) is a Hong Kong film director and actor. The son of actor Eric Tsang, Tsang got his start in the Hong Kong film industry working for director Peter Chan Ho-Sun after graduating from University of T ...

at Niki Hills,

Hokkaido is Japan's second largest island and comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture, making up its own region. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaidō from Honshu; the two islands are connected by the undersea railway Seikan Tunnel. The la ...

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

Filmography

Films

Television dramas

TVB Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) is a television broadcasting company based in Hong Kong SAR. The Company operates five free-to-air terrestrial television channels in Hong Kong, with TVB Jade as its main Cantonese language service, and ...

Shaw Brothers Pictures

ViuTV ViuTV is a Cantonese language general entertainment television channel in Hong Kong operated by HK Television Entertainment (HKTVE), whose parent company PCCW also operates the IPTV platform Now TV and the media streaming service Viu. The chann ...

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wong, Venus 1992 births 21st-century Chinese actresses People from Huizhou Hong Kong women artists Living people