Wing Lam

Biography

Wing Lam is a Hong Kong actress and beauty pageant titleholder, born on February 2, 1969 in Hong Kong and raised in Sanshui, Guangdong province. She grew up in Sheung Shui in the New Territories, where her father was a director in the Agriculture and Fisheries Department. She attended Fung Kai No. 1 Middle School and graduated from New Method College in Kowloon. Before entering the Miss Hong Kong pageant, she was a contract actress at Cinema City and a member of the second generation of the "Happy Girls" group, participating in the "Happy Oil Game" album and filming advertisements for Wanle Zhu and clothing. She won third place in the 1987 Miss Hong Kong pageant and received the "Most Photogenic" award at the Miss International pageant. After her victory, she starred in numerous TV series within just two years, including "Long Live Laozi", "Little Big Man", and "Blessed Family", playing the lead role in several series, and also appeared in major productions like "Modern Men" and "Metropolis", quickly becoming a leading actress. In 1989, she went to the University of Southern California to study accounting, returning to Hong Kong every summer to film TVB series like "The Rooster Man" and "SuperCop", both in lead roles. She graduated in 1994, and although TVB asked her to return to acting, she chose to leave the entertainment industry and settle in the United States, working in accounting and teaching piano part-time. In 1999, she married American Tom Dupont in Los Angeles and had one son and two daughters. She returned to Hong Kong in 2002 to attend the Miss Hong Kong finals and became a spokesperson for Slimming Sanctuary. In 2012, she published a new book titled "Wing Lam's Secrets to Successful Parenting" and shared her parenting experiences. In 2020, she participated in online channels and in 2021 launched her personal channel called "Wing Lam Wing4U".