Stephen Au Kam Tong

Biography

Stephen Au Kam Tong is a Hong Kong actor, TV host, screenwriter, producer and writer, born on 26 April 1963. He studied at 高主教书院 and was passionate about journalism and writing from a young age, working as a reporter and photographer for a martial arts magazine and contributing articles to several newspapers as a freelance writer. In 1981 he won the government's "Clean Hong Kong" poster photography competition in the open category. He joined the ATV Training Academy in 1989 and after graduation joined ATV, where he became well known for hosting the infotainment programme 《今日睇真D》. He left ATV in 2000 and worked on productions in China and Singapore, then joined Cable TV and hosted programmes on Metro Broadcast. In 2001 he joined TVB, where he appeared in popular series such as 《同事三分親》, 《畢打自己人》, and 《誰家灶頭無煙火》. A devoted fan of Bruce Lee, he opened Hong Kong's first Bruce Lee museum in 2000. He is also a martial arts practitioner who won the Hong Kong full-contact karate championship in 2007 and 2009. In 2010 he and his wife Mandy Wong founded the theatre group 《劇道場》. In 2019 he achieved major success producing and starring in the karate-themed ViuTV series 《打天下》, and won Best Actor in the Mini-series/Special Drama category at the 2nd Hong Kong Television Awards.