Craig Robert Fong
| Craig Robert Fong | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Craig Robert Fong 22 October 1970 Carnarvon, Western Australia, Australia |
| Alma mater | Central Institute of Technology |
| Occupation | Theatre/Film Actor |
| Website | craigfong |
| Modeling information | |
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Eye color | Hazel |
Craig Robert Fong (born 22 October 1970 in Carnarvon, Western Australia) is an Australian film actor.
Craig Fong was born in Carnarvon, Western Australia. In this small country town with less than five thousand residents, Craig grew up in a somewhat isolated outback environment. His grandfather Clement, took Craig to the drive-in cinema to escape the house on hot summer nights and he was absolutely amazed by the art of storytelling through motion picture. Craig was a small, shy, withdrawn young boy who reluctantly pursued acting in junior high. Acting had somehow given Craig the confidence to read for a stage comedy and thus was first cast in the stage comedy ‘Custards Last Stand’. At fourteen Craig moved to Perth to continue his studies at Rossmoyne Senior High School but there were no drama classes, instead he picked up photography with the intention of eventually becoming a film director.
After high school he enrolled into the Central Institute of Technology located in Perth, majoring in film production and animation. During his three years he won Best Television Commercial and his actor Matt Thompson won Best Male Actor for a short film he made in 1991 at the Film and Television Institute (FTI) Awards in Fremantle. The following year he was nominated for Best Documentary at the same event.
His partner at the time, a prominent model, introduced him to her agent and thus was cast in his first television commercial for Western Australian Tourism. Fong had his first chance to work with a real production company and his passion for acting was re-ignited.
Craig left Perth for Sydney to pursue an acting career. He was an extra on ‘Thank God She Met Lizzie’, ‘Hart to Hart Down Under’ and was featured in a Crowded House music video, ‘Instinct’. From there he left for Singapore and modeled for Elite Singapore and then with Mannequin Studio.
His travels took him to Malaysia where his first real acting break came from a Hollywood movie Entrapment, where he spent three days standing next to Catherine Zeta-Jones as the right-hand-man of Maury Chaykin’s character. He did not have a large part in this movie. In fact, it was a very small one with a one-word line. In 1999 Craig was cast in his first lead role in an independent film ‘Spinning Gasing’ portraying Harry, a young musician who is caught between culture, religion and love. ‘Spinning Gasing’ was later garnished with awards from the Hawaii International Film Festival, Slam-dunk Film Festival in Utah and the Cinefan Film Festival in Bombay.
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