Kenneth Tsang Kong

Biography

Kenneth Tsang Kong is a Hong Kong actor, originally named Tsang Kwun-yat, also known as Ken Gor. Born in Shanghai in 1934 into a family with roots in Guangdong, his father was an overseas Chinese merchant in Vietnam. He moved with his family to Hong Kong in 1948 during the wave of migration, where he was educated at several schools including Lingnan School and Wah Yan College. He later traveled to the United States and studied architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, then returned to Hong Kong and worked as an architect for three years before devoting himself to acting. He entered the world of acting since secondary school and participated in a number of films in the 1950s. He is known as the brother of actress Lin Tsuiyee and the uncle of artist Wang Hsin-ping. He achieved a notable accomplishment in 2015 when he won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film "Overheard 3". He comes from a family with a distinguished cultural background, as his grandfather was among the first Chinese students to receive foreign education during the Qing Dynasty, and his great-grandfather was a Chinese ambassador to the United States in the late Qing Dynasty.