Carina Leung Kit Wah

Biography

Carina Leung Kit Wah was born in Hong Kong on August 4, 1960. She studied at St. Margaret's Girls' School and graduated from the 8th TVB Artist Training Course in 1979. She began her career on the variety show "Enjoy Yourself Tonight" as a "Happy Girl" and participated in other entertainment programs. Later, she took roles in several TV dramas including "Shanghai Bund II", "Hua Ting Xiao Ying Xiong", "Nong Ben Duo Qing", "Gong Zi Da Chu Tou", "Du Shi Fang Cheng Shi", and "Tai Ping Tian Guo", mostly playing spoiled or capricious female characters. In 1990, she moved with her husband, famous actor Wong Yat Wah, to ATV and completely retired from the entertainment industry in 1992. She then switched to a career in insurance and focused on raising her daughter, rarely appearing in public. In January 2014, media reported she was suddenly hospitalized in late November 2013 due to an unknown acute illness, with rumors suggesting leukemia. In 2016, she revealed in a TV interview that she had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and underwent five chemotherapy sessions before gradually recovering. In 2018, her daughter announced she had undergone a successful bone marrow transplant. She passed away on May 26, 2020 at Hong Kong Adventist Hospital due to organ failure at the age of 59.