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Helene Wong profile
Actor

Helene Wong

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Acting credits

8

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TMDB popularity

0.3

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Movies: 3Series: 5

TMDB ID: 1615727

IMDb ID: nm0939095

Known for: Acting

Born: January 1, 1949

Age: 77

Place of birth: Taihape, New Zealand

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1992 - 2021

Years active: 30

Average TMDB rating: 6.75

Biography

Helene Wong is a New Zealand actress and writer. She is a graduate in Sociology from Victoria University of Wellington. She first worked in Public Service, becoming social policy adviser to Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon in 1978. Her career took a different turn in the mid-1980s as she began working as a theatre actor and director before moving into film and television. She was appointed as the first script development executive in the NZ Film Commission, then worked as a freelance script consultant. In 1995, she wrote and directed the television documentary Footprints of the Dragon for the series An Immigrant Nation. The following year, she became a film critic with the New Zealand Listener. In 2016, she published the memoir Being Chinese.