- Born
- Birth nameMichael Man Tak Wong
- Height5′ 11¼″ (1.81 m)
- Born and raised in Troy, New York, Michael Wong has managed to become a star of Asian cinema in Hong Kong despite not even speaking a word of Chinese Cantonese, and he had no training in martial arts; in Asia, the actor known for his starring role in action film The Final Option (1994) and First Option (1996) where he plays a cop; for First Option the actor was nominated at the Hong Kong Film Awards, the Oscar of Hong Kong cinema, and later starred in a myriad of productions and movies oriental, often unpublished in the the West such as Beast Cops (1998) , which is considered one of the most successful films of Hong Kong cinema; actor took part but also in many U.S. films such as City Hunter (1993) starring opposite Jackie Chan,Knock Off (1998) with Jean-Claude Van Damme and the film Cold War (2012), and soon we will see the actor in the Italian film The Mercury Conspiracy (2013) with Luca Barbareschi.
- IMDb mini biography by: Romulus1953
- SpouseJanet Ma(May 8, 1992 - present) (3 children)
- ChildrenIrisa Shannon WongKayla WongKadin Miles Wong
- RelativesRussell Wong(Sibling)Declan Wong(Sibling)
- Brother of Russell Wong and Declan Wong.
- Originally from Shandong, he was brought up in the United States. In 1983 he first visited Hong Kong when his brother Russell started his film career.
- After finishing high school, he left for Hong Kong to try his luck at acting.
- He is fluent in English but not so in Chinese Mandarin and Cantonese.
- He made his English language movie debut in Tsui Hark's Knock Off in 1998.
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