韋家雄

简介

Willie Wai Kar-hung is a Hong Kong actor and businessman, currently a basic artiste contract artist with TVB. He is the younger brother of Hong Kong television and film producer Wai Ka-fai, with an older sister and a younger sister. He lived in childhood in Wah Mei House in Wah Fu Estate on Hong Kong Island, studying at Kwong Yuet Tong Ki Yuet Primary School. His father was a businessman who owned a small plastic factory but abandoned his family due to an extramarital affair, causing financial hardship. Wai left school after Form Six and helped support his family by selling dim sum at age thirteen, learning bread-making, and working as a cleaner. He began his acting career in 1980 as an extra in a drama series. In 1991 he joined the ATV artiste training class and entered the acting profession. He previously worked as a freelance advertising photographer assistant, full-time advertising photographer, extra, and TVB props department staff. He participated in various ATV productions such as Warm Current Movement and Hong Kong's Top Ten Strange Cases. In 1995 he moved to TVB at the invitation of his friend Chik Kei-yee. He left the television industry in 2008 to focus on his LED lighting business, which he started after meeting lighting merchants. His company faced massive debts due to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, paid off debts in 2013, and continued developing other businesses in partnership with Yang Ming in a post-production company.