Anthony Wong (Hong Kong actor)
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Wong at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival
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| Chinese name | 黃秋生 (traditional) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jyutping | Wong4 Cau1-sang1 (Cantonese) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birth name | Anthony Perry | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2 September 1961 British Hong Kong |
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| Occupation | Actor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years active | 1985–present | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ancestry | British, Chinese (Taishan, Guangdong) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Anthony Perry (born 2 September 1961), known professionally as Wong Chau-sang (黃秋生) or Anthony Wong, is a Hong Kong actor. 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.
Anthony Perry was born on 2 September 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.
During his late teens, Wong moved to Britain to attend a college of further education. 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.
After completing ATV's training programme, he continued his training at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. 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. 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.
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