麥沛東

简介

Mak Pui Tung, known as Mak Tung, is a Hong Kong actor born on 8 November 1989 in Tsuen Wan, New Territories. He was the only child in a middle-class family and graduated from Tsuen Wan Government Primary School in 2001. He studied at Liu Po Shan Memorial College and then at SKH Lee Ping Chung Secondary School for matriculation. He obtained an associate degree from City University of Hong Kong and joined the campus drama club, then spent three years to enter the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, graduating in 2014 with an Honours degree in Drama, majoring in Acting. He participated in university stage productions such as The Taming of the Shrew, Ubu, The School for Scandal, As If Dancing on Sand Dunes, The-N, Fuente Ovejuna, All's Well That Ends Well, and Six Characters in Search of an Author, winning Outstanding Actor Awards for The Taming of the Shrew and As If Dancing on Sand Dunes, and receiving the Disney Scholarship, Outstanding Performance Award, and HSBC Charitable Fund – Hong Kong and Mainland Student Exchange Scholarship. He joined the Chung Ying Theatre Company as a full-time actor from 2014 to 2019, was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy at the Hong Kong Drama Awards in 2016 for The Great Dragon and Phoenix, and again in 2022 for The World Has Quietened. In October 2022, he gained significant attention for his role in the film The Sparring Partner as "Tang Man Chi", the second defendant in the Tai Kok Tsui patricide case. he won the Best Actor award in the Chinese-language New Talent Competition at the 46th Hong Kong International Film Festival and the Best Newcomer award at the 16th Asian Film Awards, and was nominated for Best Actor at the 41st Hong Kong Film Awards.