Wong Cho-lam
王祖藍
Born	Wong Ho-yin (1980-01-09) 9 January 1980 (age 44) British Hong Kong
Education	Bachelor of Arts
Alma mater	Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts
Occupations	Actor television and radio host manager singer lyricist
Years active	1998–present
Height	1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Spouse	Leanne Li ​ (m. 2015)​
Children	Gabrielle Wong (daughter) Hayley Wong (daughter)
Awards	RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs Awards Best Prospect Award (Bronze) 2008 (for his performance in 2008)TVB Anniversary Awards – Most Improved Actor 2008 Best Selling Secrets ; Super Trio Supreme ; D.I.E. ; Miss Hong Kong 2008 Best Presenter 2009 Super Trio Supreme 2010 Fun with Liza and Gods 2014 Walk The Walk, Talk The Talk
Musical career
Origin	Hong Kong
Labels	EEG Music Plus (2008–2014)
Musical artist
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	王祖藍
Simplified Chinese	王祖蓝
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Wáng Zǔlán Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Wong4 Zou2 laam4
Birth name
Traditional Chinese	王浩賢
Simplified Chinese	王浩贤
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Wáng Hàoxián

Wong Cho-lam (born Wong Ho-yin; 9 January 1980)^[1] is a Hong Kong entertainer currently working as the Chief Creative Officer of TVB.^[2] He works as a stage actor, stage director, television actor, voice actor, DJ, television host, lyricist, scriptwriter and singer. He is also the host of Hunan TV's World's Got Talent.

Background

He graduated from The Hong Kong Academy For Performing Arts in 2003 with First Honors in Bachelor of Arts majoring in acting. He is a member of the Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong.

His most noted work includes his performance in the long-running popular TVB series, Best Selling Secrets (同事三分親) portraying the character, Lau Wah (樓華). In 2008, he signed on as an artist with EEG (英皇娛樂), and became one of the presenters of Super Trio Supreme (鐵甲無敵獎門人).^[3]

He was a co-host during the 2008 and 2010 Miss Hong Kong Pageant with Eric Tsang. He won Most Improved Actor at the 2008 TVB Awards.

Cho-lam's debut album Cho-lam Everywhere was released on 27 November 2008. Out of 10 songs in the album, Cho-lam wrote the lyrics for eight of them, with each song covering different areas in life, including family, friends, love, work, etc. which all aimed to share positive messages with the audience.

Cho-lam was one of the cast members of Keep Running, the Chinese version of the Korean game show Running Man, broadcast on Zhejiang TV in 2014.^[4] He also left EEG Plus in 2014, officially shifting his focus away from being a singer.

In Jan 2021, Cho-lam was appointed as the Chief Creative Officer of TVB.^[5]

Personal life

Wong was a primary school classmate with singer Joey Yung, and in 2012, Wong discovered he is a distant cousin of Eason Chan in his visit to his ancestral home in Dongguan, China.^[6] On 19 November 2014, Cho-lam publicly proposed to Leanne Li during live TVB Anniversary show, and was witnessed by TVB officials and colleagues.^[7] They married on Valentine's Day in 2015. The couple are devoted Protestants, who have both publicly declared sexual abstinence before marriage.^[8][9][10] They had a daughter, Gabrielle Wong, who was born on 17 December 2018.^[11] Wong is one of the Hong Kong celebrities that voice support for the National People's Congress decision on Hong Kong national security legislation.^[12] In December 2020, Cho-lam welcomed the birth of his second daughter Hayley.^[13]

Filmography

Television

Film

Variety

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Educational TV Shows

Discography

• Cho-lam Everywhere (2008)
• "Love For Real"(2010)
• All About Loving You (2011)
• "Love For Real 2"(2011)
• Fook Lu Shau Brother (2012)
• "Love For Real 3"(2012)
• "Curious Case"(2013)
• "Love For Real 4"(2013)

Awards and nominations