Helene Wong

Helene Wong

Born: January 1, 1949
in Taihape, New Zealand
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.

Movies for Helene Wong...

Title: The Pact
Character: GP
Released: October 18, 2021
Type: TV
When a family member is diagnosed with a terminal illness and decides they want to end their life, fundamentally different beliefs threaten to blow the family apart. Will they be able to come together before it’s too late?
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Title: Creamerie
Character: Tilda
Released: April 19, 2021
Type: TV
Creamerie is set in a post-apocalyptic future where a viral plague has wiped out 99% of men, and Earth has become a planet run by and for women. There’ll be plenty to laugh at when three Kiwi-Asian women running a dairy farm encounter – shock, horror – a man!
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Title: Ash vs Evil Dead
Character: Mrs. Lam
Released: October 31, 2015
Type: TV
Bruce Campbell reprises his role as Ash Williams, an aging lothario and chainsaw-handed monster hunter who’s spent the last three decades avoiding maturity, and the terrors of the Evil Dead. But when a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind, he’s forced to face his demons — both metaphorical and literal.
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Broken Hallelujah
Title: Broken Hallelujah
Character: Vivienne Zhang
Released: February 6, 2014
Type: Movie
The best of plans can be thwarted and, when the pressure comes on, the cracks begin to show. As the incidents in their worlds play out, three families bound by love and broken by betrayal, find their lives unknowingly touch one another, and then a final single event brings them together. This is not a love story but a story about love; three loves, three lies and one more chance.
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Jeffery
Title: Jeffery
Character: Mrs. Larson
Released: January 1, 2011
Type: Movie
When a series of incidents involving peeping tom accusations and bad debts come to a head, Jeffery is left without a job and a home and starts living out of his car.
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The Warrior's Way
Title: The Warrior's Way
Character: Grandmother
Released: December 1, 2010
Type: Movie
A warrior-assassin is forced to hide in a small town in the American Badlands after refusing a mission.
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Kiss Me Deadly
Title: Kiss Me Deadly
Character: Megan
Released: May 2, 2008
Type: Movie
Settled into a cozy home life in Milan with his boyfriend Paolo and his daughter Julia, photographer and ex-spy Jacob Keane is suddenly drawn back into the espionage world when his old partner Marta reappears with her memory erased.
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Title: Shortland Street
Character: Ruth Yan
Released: May 25, 1992
Type: TV
A fast-paced serial drama in an urban setting, this show explores the lives and loves of the patients and staff of a modern metropolitan hospital and contains a heady mix of medical crisis, human drama, comedy, romance and suspense. Follow the lives and loves of the residents of Ferndale, in New Zealand's longest-running drama.