Hong Kong’s three-time Hong Kong Film Award-winning actor Anthony Wong has been busy with his recent stage play “Praying Mantis Stalks the Cicada.” Known for keeping his personal life private, he surprised many on May 19 by sharing handsome photos of his 29-year-old son, Wong Yat Yat (formerly known as Wong Yui Ming), on Instagram and Facebook, sparking attention and praise from netizens.
According to Hong Kong media reports, Wong Yat Yat, born in 1996, graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. In 2016, he survived a serious car accident when the private car he was riding in crashed into a tree and flipped over, momentarily stopping his breathing. At that time, Anthony Wong posted a photo of the severely damaged car on social media, expressing gratitude and thanking God for his son’s miraculous survival.
Wong Yat Yat made a cameo appearance in the 2011 film “Revenge,” directed by Lo Wing-Cheung and produced by Johnnie To. In the movie, he acted alongside his father as a father-son pair. However, the second-generation star did not ultimately follow his father’s footsteps into the acting industry.
Reports indicate that Wong Yat Yat is currently working as a manager at a fashion company in Canada. The recent photos shared by Anthony Wong were for his son’s modeling gig with the brand. In the pictures, he is seen sporting various stylish outfits with accessories like a duckbill hat or a denim cap, exuding a star-like quality in his posture and facial expressions, bearing a striking resemblance to Anthony Wong.
Proudly captioning the photos, Anthony Wong wrote, “Guess who? Does he really look that much like me?” This led to numerous comments from netizens praising the resemblance.
Anthony Wong, who is of Chinese and English descent, was born in the 1960s. Growing up in a single-parent household, he graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and entered the entertainment industry in 1982 after attending the first television actor training class. With a career spanning over 30 years, he has acted in over 200 films, won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor three times, and clinched the Best Supporting Actor award twice. In 2022, he won the Best Actor at the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards for his role in “Youth of the Wandering Years.”
Over the years, Anthony Wong has not only earned accolades such as the Hong Kong Film Award and Taiwan Golden Horse Award for his outstanding performances but has also been honored with awards like the “Hong Kong Stage Performance Award” for Best Actor and TVB’s “TVB Anniversary Awards” for Best Actor, making him the first Hong Kong actor to hold the titles of Film Emperor, TV Emperor, and Stage Emperor.
In front of the camera, Anthony Wong’s acting skills are top-notch, with many of his works and characters becoming classics. Behind the scenes, his life experiences resemble those of a legendary movie. In recent years, he published his autobiography “Memoirs of Autumn,” sharing with readers the captivating notion that “life is like a drama, and drama is like life.”