Tsang Wai-ming

Biography

Tsang Wai-ming is a Hong Kong actor and presenter, born on 14 December 1952 in Cameron Highlands, Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia). He moved to Hong Kong around 1959-1960 and settled in Yuen Tun Village, Tsuen Wan. He received his primary education at Ling Kwong School in Sham Tseng and grew up in a traditional village environment where he learned martial arts with local masters. Tsang worked as a lifeguard for over 30 years at the Tuen Mun Ferry Pier since 1972 until his retirement in 2003. He also served as a village representative of Yuen Tun Village as an indigenous inhabitant in Tsuen Wan from 2003 to 2015, and was an administrative member of the Tsuen Wan Rural Committee. Tsang developed an interest in acting from childhood when he would skip school to watch films at old cinemas in Tsuen Wan, inspired by the performance of Tsui Siu-ming in the 1964 film "Little Wandering Angel". Despite his early desire to join the entertainment industry, educational requirements prevented him at the time. He began his artistic career in 1977-1978 when a colleague encouraged him to join the martial arts actor training class at Commercial Television, and later joined the seventh artist training class at TVB in 1978, distinguished by his martial arts skills and performance of the Taiwanese song "Green Island Serenade". He graduated in 1978 as a TVB artist alongside classmates such as Kam Kwok-wai, Kwong Cho-fai, and Ko Kok-leung. His first drama was "The Sword" in 1979, and he joined "Enjoy Yourself Tonight" from 1979 to 1981. He moved to ATV in 1991 after his TVB contract ended, returned to TVB in 1999, but was laid off along with others in 2003-2004 due to cost-cutting measures, and returned to ATV. The 1996 ATV drama "Farewell to the Sunny Days" is considered his representative work at ATV. Tsang has also participated in numerous films and stage plays, currently works intermittently in mainland China, enjoys fishing as a hobby, and lives in semi-retirement with occasional appearances in film and television works and as a presenter.