Biography

Childhood

Anthony Perry was born on 2 September in 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.

Career

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.

In the following years, Wong appeared in a wide range of genre films including Rock n' Roll Cop, Hard Boiled, The Heroic Trio, Infernal Affairs, The Mission and The Medallion. He had also several appearances in the popular Young and Dangerous film series as Tai Fei; a rival Triad gangster to Ekin Cheng's character Chan Ho-nam, an ambitious Triad gangster, whom Tai Fei eventually befriends.

Wong had also appeared in a number of international English-language films including The Painted Veil and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.

In 1995, Wong made his directorial debut with The New Tenant.

In 2014, Wong made his culinary debut in Dinner Confidential, where he would prepare one dish out of a table d'hote candle-lit dinner menu for guests.

In 2015, Wong became the first Hong Kong Actor to had won the Best lead actor role in TV and movies when he won 2015 TVB Anniversary Awards for Best Actor and Best Drama for Lord of Shanghai, marking his triumphant return to TVB. He also became the first Hong Kong actor to had won Best Actor awards in films, stage theatre and TV. He also became the first Hong Kong actor to ever won TVB's Best Actor award on his first nomination.

Personal life

Wong is the lead singer of a local Hong Kong punk rock band. Wong is married and has three sons called Omar Wong, Ulysses Wong and William Wong.

In a 2005 interview with Star eCentral, Wong stated that amongst his prolific output during the 1980s and the 1990s, a considerable number of films he appeared in were poor and exploitative. He, however, has no regrets because he needed the money to support his wife, their sons and his mother.

Awards

Year	Award	Category	Film	Result
1993	12th Hong Kong Film Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Love: Now You See It... Now You Don't	Nominated
1994	13th Hong Kong Film Awards	Best Actor	The Untold Story	Won
		Best Supporting Actor	Rong shi qi an	Nominated
1996	16th Hong Kong Film Awards	Hong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting Actor	Young and Dangerous 3	Nominated
1999	18th Hong Kong Film Awards	Best Actor	Beast Cops	Won
	5th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards	Best Actor		Won
2000	19th Hong Kong Film Awards	Best Actor	Ordinary Heroes	Nominated
2002	39th Golden Horse Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Seung fei	Won
2003	22nd Hong Kong Film Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Just One Look	Nominated
		Best Supporting Actor	Seung fei	Nominated
		Best Supporting Actor	Infernal Affairs	Won
	40th Golden Horse Awards	Best Supporting Actor		Won
	9th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards	Best Actor		Won
2005	42nd Golden Horse Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Initial D	Won
	Asia-Pacific Film Festival	Best Supporting Actor		Won
2006	25th Hong Kong Film Awards	Best Supporting Actor		Won
2015	2015 TVB Anniversary Awards	Best Actor	Lord of Shanghai	Won

Filmography

Year	Title	Role
1985	My Name Ain't Suzie (花街時代)	Jimmy Koch
1990	When Fortune Smiles (無敵幸運星)	Wei (曹家大哥/飛飛大哥)
1990	No Risk, No Gain: Casino Raiders - The Sequel	Yeung Sing
1990	Dancing Bull (舞牛)	Ngau Ban-tsiu (牛品超)
1990	The Big Score (絕橋智多星)	Ma Kwan (馬坤)
1991	Erotic Ghost Story II (聊齋艷譚續集五通神)	Ng Tung/Chau-sang (五通（男魔）/秋生)
1991	Don't Fool Me	Nerd's brother Su (黑幫小弟)
1991	Casino Raiders II	Pow
1992	Sting of the Scorpion (蠍子)	Chow Kin (周健)
1992	Now You See Love, Now You Don't	Dunno
1992	What a Hero!	Saucer
1992	Hard Boiled	Johnny Wong
1992	Lucky Encounter (踢到寶)	Cheap Chan (賤人陳)
1992	Full Contact (1992)	Sam Sei (沈四)
1992	Angel Hunter (女校風雲之邪教入侵)	Kwok/The Bishop
1993	Rong shi qi an	Lau
1993	Biao jie, ni hao ye! III zhi da ren jia dao	Inspector Lu Ping
1993	Fight Back to School III	Tailor Lam
1993	The Heroic Trio	Kau
1993	Fu gui kuang hua
1993	Huang Fei Hong dui Huang Fei Hong
1993	The Eight Immortals Restaurant: The Untold Story	Wong Chi Hang
1993	Mang nu: 72 xiao shi	Sam Chu
1993	A Moment of Romance II	Dino
1993	The Mad Monk	Nine Lives Beggar
1993	Cheng shi nu lie ren	Charlie Chan
1993	Executioners	Mr. Kim/The Faceless Monster/Kau
1993	Di shi pan guan	Kin
1993	Daughter of Darkness	Officer Lui
1993	Love to Kill	Sam Wai Wong
1994	Chai dan zhuan jia bao bei zha dan	John Wu
1994	Meng chai ren
1994	Oh! My Three Guys	Best Actor Winner
1994	Ti tian xing dao zhi sha xiong	The prosecutor
1994	Xiang Gang qi an: Zhi xi xue gui li wang	Tong Chi-Ming
1994	Yi xian sheng ji	Inspector Kim Kuo-Hao
1994	Chung ngon sat luk: O gei	Ho Kin Tung
1994	Guang Dong wu hu zhi tie quan wu di Sun Zhong Shan
1994	'Saang Gong yat ho tung chap faan	Inspector Hung
1994	Gui mi xin qiao	Liu Sheng-Ming
1994	Guai xia yi zhi mei
1995	Er yue san shi	Raymond Shiu Chi-Li
1995	Hai shi jue de ni zui hao	Wah Tino
1995	Jie fang chai ren	Lau
1995	Ma lu ying xiong II: Fei fa sai che	Doctor
1995	Xin fang ke	Alan Tam
1995	The World of Treasure
1996	Tou tou ai ni
1996	Mongkok Story	Lui Lone
1996	Xiu hua da dao
1996	Jing hua rou bo jiang jian dang
1996	Jin zhuang xiang jiao ju le bu	Host/Inspector Wong/Mr. Shaw/John
1996	Zhong guo 'O' ji zhi xie xing qing ren	Li Shu-pei
1996	Young and Dangerous 2	Tai Fai
1996	Ebola Syndrome	Kai San
1996	Big Bullet	Bird
1996	Young and Dangerous 3	Tai Fai
1996	Black Mask	King Kau
1996	Viva Erotica	Wong
1997	Armageddon	Chiu Tai-Pang
1997	Hui zhuan shou shi	Shing
1997	Young and Dangerous 4	Tai Fai
1997	Huo shao dao zhi heng hang Ba dao
1997	Ng yun ji dai
1997	Option Zero	Sing
1998	The Untold Story 2	Officer Lazyboots
1998	Haunted Mansion	Ah Gi's Husband
1998	God.com
1998	Maang gwai jeung yan toi	Chin Hai
1998	Young and Dangerous 5	Tai Fei
1998	Beast Cops	Tung
1998	Quan zhi da dao
1998	The Storm Riders	Sword Saint
1998	Jiang jian xian jing	Wong Lik-Tak
1999	Raped by an Angel 4: The Raper's Union	Human Milk Drinking Doctor
1999	Wai Goh dik goo si
1999	A Lamb in Despair	Charles
1999	Hak do fung wan ji sau chuk wong	Chiu-chau Tsam
1999	Fascination Amour	Eric
1999	Ordinary Heroes	Peter Kam
1999	Gou hun e meng
1999	A Man Called Hero	Pride
1999	Heaven of Hope	Ah-Wah
1999	Baan gwat chai
1999	Hei she hui dang an zhi hei jin di guo
1999	Century of the Dragon	Lam
1999	The Deadly Camp	Boar
1999	The Mission	Curtis
1999	The Legendary 'Tai Fei'	Tai Fei
2000	Violent Cop	Tai Pan Kim
2000	Evil Fade
2000	Nu nan jue
2000	Fist Power	Charles Chau
2000	Those Were the Days...	Dai Fei
2000	Q gei luen yan	Lam
2000	Yau sau tung dong
2000	What Is a Good Teacher	ching
2000	Time and Tide	Uncle Ji
2000	Jiang hu: The Triad Zone	Master Kwan Wan Cheung
2000	Miu meng ji tiu	Wisdom
2000	Ai wo bie zou	Rock
2000	Metade Fumaca
2000	Gen-X Cops 2: Metal Mayhem	Dr. Tang
2001	United We Stand and Swim	Coach Mao
2001	Yuk mong ji shing
2001	Runaway	Ray
2001	Visible Secret	Wong-Lin
2001	My Life as McDull	School Principal (voice) and Logan (voice)
2002	Gwaai sau hok yuen
2002	Roaring Dragon, Bluffing Tiger
2002	Yi wen ji bao biao	Peter's Dad
2002	Seung fei	Joker's Father
2002	Just One Look	Crazy
2002	Demi-Haunted	Hung
2002	Infernal Affairs	SP Wong Chi Shing
2003	Love Under the Sun
2003	Cat and Mouse	Judge Bao Zheng
2003	The Twins Effect	Prada
2003	Kap sze moon yat goh gei kooi	Anthony
2003	Colour of the Truth	S.P. Wong Jiang
2003	The Medallion	Lester
2003	Fu bo
2003	Infernal Affairs II	Inspector Wong Chi Shing
2003	Infernal Affairs III	SP Wong Chi Shing
2003	Golden Chicken 2	Chow
2004	Magic Kitchen	Tony Ho
2004	20 30 40	Shi Ge
2004	McDull, Prince de la Bun	principal (voice)
2004	A-1 Headline	Lam Hei Fei
2004	Kung Fu Soccer (TV series)	Lam Chung Fu
2005	Slim till Dead	Sergeant Tak
2005	House of Fury	Yue Siu Bo
2005	2 Young	Nam's Pop
2005	Initial D	Bunta 'Tofuman' Fujiwara
2005	Mob Sister	Whacko
2005	All About Love
2006	McDull, the Alumni
2006	Isabella	Chen-Shing's boss
2006	On the Edge	Lung
2006	Exiled	blazed
2006	The Painted Veil	Colonel Yu
2007	Sweet Revenge	Ching Shing
2007	Dancing Lion	Great Uncle
2007	Mr. Cinema	Zhou Heung Kong
2007	Simply Actors	Theatre janitor
2007	Secret	Chiu
2007	The Sun Also Rises	Teacher Liang
2007	Bullet and Brain	Brain
2008	The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor	General Yang
2008	Plastic City	Yuda
2008	Ying han	Dragon
2008	True Women for Sale	Lau Fu-yi
2009	I Corrupt All Cops	Unicorn Tang
2009	Vengeance	Kwai
2009	McDull, Kung Fu Kindergarten	Principal/Master/Xiongbao (voice)
2009	Turning Point	Brother one
2009	The Last Night of Madam Chin	Cheng Rong-fa
2010	Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen	Liu Yutian
2011	Punished	Wong Ho-chiu
2011	A Beautiful Life
2011	A Simple Life	Grasshopper - Elderly home's owner
2011	The Woman Knight of Mirror Lake
2011	White Vengeance	Fan Zeng
2012	Motorway	Lo
2012	McDull: The Pork of Music	principal
2012	The Four	Zhuge Zhenwo
2012	Naked Soldier
2012	Westgate Tango
2013	Ip Man: The Final Fight	Ip Man
2013	The Four II
2014	Golden Chicken 3
2014	The Four III
2014	Gangster Payday
2015	Hot Blood Band
2015	12 Golden Ducks
2016	The Mobfathers

Television

• The Justice of Life 他來自江湖 (1989), Johnson Man (文忠信)
• When Things Get Tough 午夜太陽 (1990), Tsing Kwan (程軍)
• Lord of Shanghai 梟雄 (2015), Kiu Ngo-tin (喬傲天)

[ Source: Wikipedia ]