Margaret Chung

Biography

Chung Lai-ki is a Hong Kong actress and yoga instructor, born on November 3, 1976 in Toronto, Canada. She grew up in Scarborough near Scarborough Bluffs and studied at St. Agatha Catholic School and Albert Campbell Collegiate Institute. She participated in the 1995 Toronto Chinese Beauty Pageant and joined TVB's artist training course in 1996. She began her career filming the series "Detective Investigation Files III" in 1996 and appeared in notable roles in "Untraceable Evidence" and "The Legend of Doctor Hua Tuo." She left TVB after filming "The Last Breakthrough" in 2004, then stepped away from the entertainment industry after 2008 to focus on her work as a yoga instructor. She married Italian Nardone Ruggero in 2010 and has two daughters. In September 2026, news emerged that she was suffering from a hereditary family disease known as motor neuron disease, and she issued a statement on Instagram confirming she was going through a difficult health period and asking people not to speculate about her condition.