Actor

Helene Wong

January 1, 1949 · 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.

Notable work

7.8
Ash vs Evil Dead (2015)
as Mrs. Lam
7.7
Sweet Tooth (2021)
as Bridget
6.6
The Warrior's Way (2010)
as Grandmother

Often works with

Paul Ellis
2 titles together
Kiss Me Deadly, Shortland Street
Ben Mitchell
2 titles together
Shortland Street, Broken Hallelujah

Full filmography · 9

The Pact
as GP
2021
Sweet Tooth
as Bridget
20217.7
Creamerie
as Tilda
2021
Ash vs Evil Dead
as Mrs. Lam
20157.8
Shortland Street
as Ruth Yan
1992