Natalie Wong


Natalie Wong Kei-Ying is a Hong Kong actress formerly affiliated with TVB.

Miss Hong Kong start

Wong 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, first runner-up Annamarie Wood, and second runner-up Theresa Lee, placing in the top five.

Career

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, which aired from October 1994 to March 1995. With below average acting talent, she went on to play second female leads in subsequent List of [TVB Programmes#TV drama series|TVB dramas].
In 1998, Wong was sent to host the long-running infotainment show, K-100. Because of the hosting duties, she was not able to take on any acting roles while she hosted. Due to the lack of exposure of TVB dramas during this time, her 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 Wong been greater in value, with her most recent being a major supporting role in To Grow with Love alongside Myolie Wu and Andy Hui. Because of the hosting exposure from K-100, Wong is regularly assigned to emcee live events and galas.
In 2011, Wong declined to renew her contract with TVB and left the entertainment sector, with her final role being The Hippocratic Crush.Nonetheless, she parted with TVB on good terms and has stated that she would consider filming again if the script is good. She has made public appearances around Asia and participates in GVG HK promotional events.
Wong currently works in the beauty and cosmetics sector.

Name

The middle character, , 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 Extension-B package. Therefore, a lot of media has just used the character "紀" or incorrectly use a similar looking character "釲" in place of the original character.

Selected filmography

Television

Film

Television presenting


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