Karel Wong Chi-Yeung

Biography

Karel Wong Chi-Yeung is a Chinese Hong Kong film actor born on August 1, 1967. He is of mixed Chinese-Indonesian heritage, with his mother being Indonesian. He began his career in the late 1980s after winning the "Galaxy Relay Contest" in 1988 held by Hong Kong's television network, where he performed a villain role. He started acting in films in 1989 and also hosted the program K-100 and was part of the long-running variety show "Enjoy Tonight." He had a difficult experience as a former gang member who was imprisoned for several months in 1994 for causing a traffic accident and fleeing the scene, making him one of the few entertainers to have been incarcerated after entering the industry. In recent years, he moved to work in mainland China and changed his name to Huang Zi-Yang. He suffered a serious injury in 2004 while filming "決不開槍" in Guangzhou during a scene where he jumped from a building himself, but he refused to stay in the hospital to avoid disrupting filming. He recently converted to Christianity and was baptized in 2009.