Joey Wong (Chinese: 王祖賢; pinyin: Wáng Zǔxián, born January 31, 1967(1967-01-31)) is a Hong Kong based Taiwanese-born actress.
Wang was born and raised in Taipei and also received a secondary school education there. She was enrolled in the drama course of Kuo Kwan Arts School. 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 f...
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Joey Wong (Chinese: 王祖賢; pinyin: Wáng Zǔxián, born January 31, 1967(1967-01-31)) is a Hong Kong based Taiwanese-born actress.
Wang was born and raised in Taipei and also received a secondary school education there. She was enrolled in the drama course of Kuo Kwan Arts School. 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...
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