Natalie Wong

Natalie Wong
Born (1975-07-15) 15 July 1975 (age 48)
Hong Kong
Years active1994-2013
PartnerLouis Koo (1994-2001)
AwardsMiss Hong Kong Pageant
1994 Miss Photogenic
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese黃𨥈瑩
Simplified Chinese黄𨥈莹
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Natalie Wong Kei-Ying (Chinese name: 黃𨥈瑩, sometimes credited as 黃紀瑩 or 黃釲瑩) (born on 15 July 1975) is a Hong Kong actress formerly affiliated with TVB.

Miss Hong Kong start

Wong entered the Miss Hong Kong Pageant in 1994 while studying business in college. From the start she was deemed a favourite by the Hong Kong media, and she nabbed the Miss Photogenic award early on in the semi-finals. However, due to her average performance in the finals, she lost her bid for the crown to winner Halina Tam (譚小環), first runner-up Annamarie Wood (活麗明), and second runner-up Theresa Lee (李綺紅), placing in the top five.

Career

Due to her popularity during the contest, TVB quickly signed with her and cast her as one of the leading female roles in the sitcom Happy Harmony (餐餐有宋家), which aired from October 1994 to March 1995. With below average acting talent, she went on to play second female leads in subsequent TVB dramas.

In 1998, Wong was sent to host the long-running infotainment show, K-100. Because of the hosting duties, she was not able to take on any acting roles while she hosted. Due to the lack of exposure of TVB dramas during this time, her popularity quickly decreased. Upon completing her duties on K-100 in 2000, she filmed Prison on Fire - Plaintive Destiny 監獄風雲之夜囚 as the female lead and continued to take roles in TVB dramas. However, the roles offered to her were mostly minor ones. Only until 2006 have roles for Wong been greater in value, with her most recent being a major supporting role in To Grow with Love (肥田囍事) alongside Myolie Wu and Andy Hui. Because of the hosting exposure from K-100, Wong is regularly assigned to emcee live events and galas.

In 2011, Wong declined to renew her contract with TVB and left the entertainment sector, with her final role being The Hippocratic Crush.Nonetheless, she parted with TVB on good terms and has stated that she would consider filming again if the script is good. She[when?] has made public appearances around Asia and participates in GVG HK promotional events.

Wong currently works in the beauty and cosmetics sector.[1][2]

Name

The Chinese character, "𨥈"

The middle character, 𨥈, is an old Chinese scripture meaning royalty and is not readily available in most Chinese typing software. In fact, the character was only recently available as an add-on to the Unicode software Extension-B package. Therefore, a lot of media has just used the character "紀" (which has the same pronunciation) or incorrectly use a similar looking character "釲" (which is pronounced differently) in place of the original character.

Selected filmography

Television

Film

  • 1997 03:00AM 夜半3點鐘
  • 1998 T.H.E. Professionals 職業大賊
  • 1998 Troublesome Night 3 陰陽路3之升棺發財
  • 2001 Prison on Fire - Plaintive Destiny 監獄風雲之夜囚

Television presenting

Awards and achievements
Miss Hong Kong
Preceded by
Emily Lo (in 1992)
盧淑儀
 Miss Photogenic
1994 		Succeeded by
Sofie Rahman
李嘉慧

References

  1. ^ 董欣琪 (9 October 2021). "梁雪湄向海嵐聚會 江芷妮轉開美容公司黃𨥈瑩疑似已婚生B？". 香港01. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  2. ^ "古天樂至今唯一承認的女友 43歲黃𨥈瑩保養得宜投身美容界". 雅虎香港. 4 January 2019. Retrieved 23 January 2023.

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