Wong Cho-lam

Wong Cho-lam (born Wong Ho-yin; 9 January 1980) is a Hong Kong entertainer.

Background He graduated from The Hong Kong Academy For Performing Arts in 2003 with First Honors in Bachelor of Arts majoring in acting. He is a member of the Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong.

His most noted work includes his performance in the long-running popular TVB series, Best Selling Secrets (同事三分親) portraying the character, Lau Wah (樓華). In 2008, he signed on as an artist with EEG (英皇娛樂), and became one of the presenters of Super Trio Supreme (鐵甲無敵獎門人).

He was a co-host during the 2008 and 2010 Miss Hong Kong Pageant with Eric Tsang. He won Most Improved Actor at the 2008 TVB Awards.

Wong's debut album Wong Everywhere was released on 27 November 2008. Out of 10 songs in the album, Wong wrote the lyrics for eight of them, with each song covering different areas in life, including family, friends, love, work, etc. which all aimed to share positive messages with the audience.

In 2012, Wong gained popularity in mainland China through his performance on the Hunan Television variety show Your Face Sounds Familiar, in which contestants impersonate celebrity performers.

Wong left EEG Plus in 2014. From 2014 to 2018, Wong was one of the cast members of Zhejiang Television game show Keep Running, the Chinese version of the Korean show Running Man.

From 2021 to 2023, Wong served as the Chief Creative Officer of TVB.

Personal life Wong was a primary school classmate with singer Joey Yung, and in 2012, Wong discovered he is a distant cousin of Eason Chan in his visit to his ancestral home in Dongguan, China. On 19 November 2014, Wong publicly proposed to Leanne Li during live TVB Anniversary show, and was witnessed by TVB officials and colleagues. They married on Valentine's Day in 2015. The couple are devoted Protestants, who have both publicly declared sexual abstinence before marriage. Wong is one of the Hong Kong celebrities that voice support for the National People's Congress decision on Hong Kong national security legislation. In December 2020, Wong welcomed the birth of his second daughter Hayley.

Filmography

Television Year Title Role Notes 2006 Glittering Days Ma Wai-ming 2007 Heavenly In-Laws Cheng Sau-fu Best Bet Gwong Ji 2007-2008 Best Selling Secrets Lau Wah TVB Award for Most Improved Actor2007 Heart of Greed intellectually disabled boy The Family Link waiter On the First Beat Ah Shui 2008 D.I.E. Yun Wai-ping (Theo) TVB Award for Most Improved Actor 2008-2010 Off Pedder Tang Lai-gwan 2009-2010 The Beauty of the Game Yuen Kwok-fan 2010 Don Juan DeMercado Gung Yan-tung 2011 Super Snoops Hung Chak-nam Nominated — TVB Anniversary Award for My Favourite Male Character (Top 15) 2013 Inbound Troubles Choi Sum 2014 A Time of Love Narrator (various) Episode 4 - Japan cartoon/comic theme Gilded Chopsticks Ko Tin-po Come On, Cousin Yau Tin 2016 Happy MiTan Wang Zu Cai 2017 Nezha and Yang Jian Nezha Oh My Grad Choi Sum / Yau Tin He reprise his two roles from Inbound Troubles and Come On, Cousin as recurring characters.

Film Year Title Role Notes 1999 Sunshine Cops Student 2006 Marriage with a Fool Lam 2007 Blessing Through Love Siu Wong Beauty and the 7 Beasts Bruce 2008 L For Love, L For Lies Loan shark La Lingerie Antonio Connected Salesman 2009 Short of Love Jack Lam 2010 72 Tenants of Prosperity Kin Chai Just Another Pandora's Box Guard of Cao La Comédie humaine Soya The Jade and the Pearl Ling Kam Hoi (凌感開), a storyteller 2011 I Love Hong Kong Youth Tok Shui-lung The Fortune Buddies Wong Luk Lam (Blue) 2012 My Sassy Hubby Mr.Lee 2013 I Love Hong Kong 2013 Sung Samsung Princess and the Seven Kung Fu Masters Horny Four / Kung Fu master Ip Man: The Final Fight Blind Chan The Midas Touch Gibson Special guest appearance Firestorm Correctional Service Superintendent 2014 Black Comedy Officer Johnny To Horseplay Tung Yin Delete My Love So Boring Rise of the Legend Big Tooth 2015 Running Man Himself Lucky Star 2015 2016 Mr. High Heels Mission Milano Amon 2017 Buddies in India The Golden Monk 2019 I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change! 2020 Enter the Fat Dragon

Variety

Educational TV shows Year Title Network Notes/ 2000 青春心曲 ETV Teenage love story

Discography Cho-lam Everywhere (2008) "Love For Real"(2010) All About Loving You (2011) "Love For Real 2"(2011) Fook Lu Shau Brother (2012) "Love For Real 3"(2012) "Curious Case"(2013) "Love For Real 4"(2013)

Awards and nominations