Lana Wong Ha-wai

Biography

Lana Wong Ha-wai is a Hong Kong actress, born on 26 November 1933 on Hong Kong Island in the Wan Chai District. She studied at the Luo Fuokok Teachers' Training School and Belilios Girls' School, where she excelled in athletics including long jump, high jump, and basketball. She began working as a freelance actress during her secondary school years. After World War II, she performed in Cantonese opera and Cantonese films. Her first film was "Fire" (火) in 1956, directed by Zuo Ji. She retired from acting for a period but returned to public attention following the Ding family inheritance dispute, as she was a close friend of "Sister Xiang" Hong Jinmei. She subsequently appeared in several films and television dramas, and served as a consultant for the TV series "97變色龍". In 1968, she founded the amateur Cantonese opera group "Huibao Music Society". In 2006, she and her husband were briefly implicated in a casino fraud case but were cleared of any involvement. She had four sons and two daughters with lawyer Hu Baichuan.