Joey Wong
| Joey Wong | |||
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| Chinese name | 王祖賢 | ||
| Pinyin | Wáng Zǔxián (Mandarin) | ||
| Jyutping | Wong4 Zou2jin4 (Cantonese) | ||
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January 31, 1967 Taipei, Taiwan |
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| Other name(s) | Joey Wang Joey Ong Jyo Han/Hen (Taiwanese), Wang Tsu Hsien |
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| Partner(s) | Chyi Chin (1985~2002) | ||
| Ancestry | Shucheng, Anhui | ||
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Joey Wong Cho-Yee ( Joey Wang, Wang Tsu Hsien, or Joey Ong Jyo Han/Hen) (Chinese: 王祖賢; pinyin: Wáng Zǔxián, born January 31, 1967) is a Hong Kong based Taiwanese-born actress.
Wong was born on January 31, 1967 and raised in Taipei. She completed her secondary school education there. She was enrolled in the drama program of Guoguang Arts School (now . She has an older brother, a younger brother and one sister.
Her father is a basketball player and he encouraged her to become a professional basketball player when she was fourteen. Shortly thereafter she shot a TV commercial for sport shoes which drew the attention of a film producer who made her the leading lady of film It'll Be Very Cold by the Lakeside This Year. This movie attracted the attention of producer Mona Fong of Shaw Brothers and she invited Wong come to Hong Kong to make her first Hong Kong movie Let's Make Laugh II, opposite Derek Yee Tung Sing.
In 1987, she portrayed a beautiful ghost in A Chinese Ghost Story and her beauty and grace made her a film idol in Japan and South Korea. She made a dozen movies in the following years playing similar characters, either ghost or vixen, gliding across the screen.
In 1989 she went to Japan to star in the TV series A Woman From Hong Kong. Later she also made commercials and published photo albums. In 1992 she made her singing debut with the Japanese and Mandarin CD single, "Hold You In My Arms Forever". In 1993, she appeared as the White Snake in Tsui Hark's Green Snake, a revision of the Madame White Snake legend told from the perspective of the younger Green Snake, though White Snake remains the romantic lead.
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