Max Loong
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| Website | http://www.maxloong.com/ |
Max Loong (born March 8, 1980 in Malaysia) is a Swiss actor, host and producer of Chinese (Malaysian) descent.
Swiss entertainment magazine Schweizer Illustrierte ranked him as one of the top 100 most important and influential Swiss personalities in 2007.
In the same year, Elle Magazine Singapore awarded him the ‘Breakout Star of the year’ award.
Among some of his most recognisable works, he has been the host of MusicStar, the Swiss equivalent of American Idol, and also filled a role as the lead character (Michael Wong) of Singapore’s Emmy nominated comedy First Class.
Max was born in Malaysia to a Swiss mother and a Chinese-Malaysian father. His father was a race car driver in the 1970s, and his mother worked for Christie's auction house in Zurich. His grandmother, Rosemarie Volz was an Opera singer in Switzerland in the 1940s and 1950s.
When he was three, Max moved to Switzerland. Shortly after graduating Kantonsschule Hottingen with a degree in economics in 2000, he got in contact with VIVA Schweiz, at this time Switzerland's top ranking music channel. This was eventually where he landed his first on-screen job as a TV host.
In 2004 he trained at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in Los Angeles, where he discovered his passion for acting. His fellow students and teachers cast him in independent movies such as The Intervention or Syndicate:Zeed.
Max resided in the United States until he relocated to Singapore in 2006. He relocated in part to rediscover his Asian roots, and to be closer to his family in Malaysia. As an MTV VJ and an actor, he went on to become a popular television personality in South East Asia.
At the age of 20, he beat more than 400 other competitors to become the host for the first Swiss music channel, . This was his first foray into hosting.
Shows he has hosted in Europe include Fanta Fiesta (teleprompter), McMusic (requestshow), FreaX (gameshow), Popschau (newsshow), Sunrise (latenightshow) and his own produced hit show Interaktiv (liveshow) where he has interviewed famous artistes such as Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, Usher, 50 Cent, Alicia Keys, Robert Downey Jr. and Pierce Brosnan to name a few.
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