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Craig Fong
Craig Fong
Born	Craig Robert Fong; Carnarvon, Western Australia, Australia
Alma mater	Central Institute of Technology
Occupation(s)	Actor, author
Website	craigfong.com

Craig Robert Fong is an Australian actor.

Early life and education edit

Fong was born in Carnarvon, Western Australia and grew up in a fairly isolated outback environment. At the age of 15 he moved to Perth to continue his studies at Rossmoyne Senior High School. As there were no drama classes at the school, he studied photography, with the intention of eventually becoming a film director.

After high school, Fong enrolled at the Central Institute of Technology in Perth, majoring in film production and animation in a three-year course. During this time, he won an award for Best Television Commercial and also made a short film which won the leading actor ,Matt Thompson ,Best Male Actor at the 1991 Film and Television Institute (FTI) Awards in Fremantle. In 1992 ,Fong's film was nominated for Best Documentary at the FTI Awards.

He was then cast in his first television commercial for Western Australian Tourism.

Career edit

Fong moved Sydney to pursue an acting career. He was an extra on Thank God He Met Lizzie and Hart to Hart Down Under, and was featured in a Crowded House music video, Instinct.

He then travelled to Singapore, where he did some fashion modelling, and then Malaysia. There he got a part in the Hollywood movie Entrapment, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Sean Connery.

In 1999 Fong was cast in his first lead role in an independent film Spinning Gasing portraying Harry, a young musician who is caught between culture, religion and love.

Fong returned to Singapore for two years, to work in telemovies with longtime friend and director Kabir Bhatia, in the films On the Wings of Butterflies (playing a Japanese soldier who falls in love with a local Chinese Singaporean girl during World War II), and Full Circle.

Returning to Perth, Fong met playwright John Aitken, and was cast in various roles on stage. For his role as a doppelgänger in Lost is my Quiet, he was awarded Best Supporting Actor at the 8th Annual Equity Guild Awards in October 2007, in Western Australia. Also in 2007, he played the character Bao Tang in the Australian crime thriller film, Without Warrant.

In June 2009, Fong was cast in the Malaysian epic feature film Hikayat Merong Mahawangsa (also known internationally as The Malay Chronicles: Bloodlines, and in the television series Wadi Unung, for Astro Prima. He then played Japanese Lieutenant Tanaka. The Astro Citra miniseries, directed by Kabir Bhatia, based on the Japanese occupation of South-East Asia, particularly the Sandakan Death Marches.

He has acted many European films, including A World Beyond (2013), and the German film about endangered orangutans Lost in Borneo (2012), starring Hannes Jaenicke and Mirjam Weichselbraun.^[1]

Fong played Andy Chow in The Hong Kong Affair (2013) with German actress Veronica Ferres, who was also co-producer.^[2]

In November 2011, Fong was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for The Malay Chronicles: Bloodlines at the Anugerah Skrin in Malaysia.

In 2013 Fong teamed up once again with writer and director Kabir Bhatia on Gila Baby and starred in the Malaysian drama film Cuak. In March 2013, he appeared in Das Traumschiff, one of Germany's long-running television series, filmed in and around Kuala Lumpur and Langkawi, playing the character Beto.

Fong played the role of Benny in The Heights by Matchbox Pictures for ABC Television and the US NBC network.

In January 2020, filming began for the feature film Talbis Iblis (The Devil's Deception), directed by Kabir Bhatia.

Fong had a role in the 2022 Australian series, Mystery Road: Origin, directed by Dylan River and starring Mark Coles Smith for Bunya Productions.

Filmography edit

Film edit

Year	Title	Role
1999	Spinning Gasing	Harry Lee
1999	Entrapment	Gangster
2009	The Line	Bao Tang
2011	The Malay Chronicles: Bloodlines	Admiral Lui Yun
2011	Akinabalu The Movie	Lieutenant Tanaka
2014	Cuak	The Man in Blue
2014	Gila Baby	Mongol
2022	Talbis Iblis	Jembalang

Television edit

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	Kopitiam	William	3 episodes
2004	Bully	Daniel Lum
2005	On The Wings Of A Butterfly	Kenji
2010	Wadi Unung	Karl Vincent	24 episodes
2011	Crossings	Corporal Kanada
2011	Akinabalu	Lieutenant Tanaka	8 episodes
2012	Lost in Borneo [fr]	Sapto Setiawan
2013	A World Beyond [de]	Tojo Murakami
2013	The Hong Kong Affair	Andy Chow
2013	What If
2019	The Heights	Benny	9 episodes
2022	Mystery Road: Origin	Investor	2 episodes

Theatre
Year	Production	Playwright	Role
2005	Imperial Facade	John Aitken	Princess Wing Lee
2007	Lost Is My Quiet	John Aitken	Simon Brewster
2006	Ships Pass Quietly	John Aitken	Yuri

Publications edit

Fong, Craig, 1970- (2002), The adventures of Jerry and Jane, Peaceful Country Publications, ISBN 0957827504{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)