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Chinese name
  
王敏德 (traditional)

Role
  
Actor

Occupation
  
Actor

Spouse
  
Janet Ma (m. 1992)

Years active
  
1983–present

Name
  
Michael Wong


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Born
  
April 16, 1965 (age 58) Troy, New York, U.S. (
1965-04-16
)

Children
  
Kayla Wong, Irisa Shannon Wong, Kadin Miles Wong

Parents
  
William Wong, Connie Van Yserloo

Movies
  
First Option, Z Storm, Beast Cops, Nightfall, Royal Warriors

Similar People
  
Janet Ma, Russell Wong, Gordon Chan, Tsui Hark, Wong Jing

Siblings
  
Russell Wong, Declan Wong

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Michael Fitzgerald Wong (a.k.a. Wong Man-tak) (Chinese: 王敏德; pinyin: Wáng Mǐndé; born 16 April 1965) is a Chinese-American actor based in Hong Kong.

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He is fluent in English, but not so in Chinese, which is reflected in many of the characters he has portrayed. His most notable film is the 1998 film Beast Cops which won a Hong Kong Film Award with Wong in the lead role. As of 2004, he has appeared in over fifty films in twenty-one years, often in very minor roles.

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Early career

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Michael Wong was born and raised in Troy, New York, the son of restaurateur, Will Wong, and an American artist of Dutch and French descent, Connie Van Yserloo. After finishing high school, he left to go to Hong Kong to try his luck in acting. His brothers, Russell Wong and Declan Wong, would also become actors in the Hong Kong film industry.

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There were a number of significant factors against Wong's eventual success in the Hong Kong film industry including an inability to speak Cantonese Chinese, no formal training in acting and no background in martial arts. He also lacked an entry into the tightly knit in the Hong Kong film industry.

His debut was in 1983's Invincible Obsessed Fighters, which was a kung fu film. His next significant film was Royal Warriors a.k.a. In the Line of Duty, which established his dominant image for the first part of his career as a naive but tough outsider. In 1986, he starred in Legacy of Rage alongside Brandon Lee (son of martial arts legend Bruce Lee) in his only Hong Kong movie. He also starred alongside Jackie Chan in Thunderbolt (1995) and Brandon Lee's sister Shannon Lee in Enter the Eagles (1998). He also played the role of a detective in a low budget 1998 film, Knock Off, acting alongside Van Damme and Rob Schnieder.

Family

He is married to Hong Kong supermodel Janet Ma. He has one son, Kadin Miles Wong, and two older daughters, Kayla Wong and Irisa Shannon Wong.

Later career

Final Option, released in 1994, would make Wong a major star in the Chinese film industry. Playing the role of a police officer, he established a tougher image and the character reappeared in a prequel First Option in 1996. He would reprise the role of Stone Wong in the 2002 movie New Option.

Wong starred in a 1996 Canadian TV production Once A Thief directed by John Woo. He made his English language movie debut in Tsui Hark's Knock Off in 1998. His starring role in Beast Cops, which won a 1998 Best Film prize at the Hong Kong film awards, further consolidated his position.

In 2000, Wong made his debut as a director in Miles Apart, which he also produced and starred in. He continues to enjoy steady film work even though he has to learn his Chinese lines phonetically. In 2006, Wong re-entered the music scene by performing "big band" music accompanied by a 10 piece band with the likes of "Come Fly with Me".

References

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