Carrie Wong
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Carrie Wong | |||||||||||||
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| Born | 1 January 1994 | ||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Nanyang Polytechnic | ||||||||||||
| Occupation | Actress | ||||||||||||
| Years active | 2013–present | ||||||||||||
| Awards | Star Awards 2015 – Star Awards 2021 : Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes | ||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 黃思恬 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 黄思恬 | ||||||||||||
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Carrie Wong Si Tian (Chinese: 黄思恬; born 1 January 1994) is a Singaporean actress.[1] She was discovered through the reality television competition Hey Gorgeous.[2]
Early life
The only child of a housewife mother and father who works in a security firm,[3] Wong was raised in a Chinese-speaking family. Her father is Singaporean while her mother is a Malaysian Chinese. She studied at Evergreen Secondary School and graduated with a diploma in Hospitality and Tourism Management from Nanyang Polytechnic in 2014. Wong was a blogshop model during her polytechnic years. She was scouted in her final year for Hey Gorgeous in 2013, where she made it as the second runner up.
Career
2013: Career beginnings
Wong was chosen as one of the six contestants for the Preliminary Rounds of Hey Gorgeous in 2013, emerging as a second runner-up.[3]
2014–2015: Acting debut and breakthrough
Wong made her acting debut in Scrum, where she plays a disabled Sport Sciences polytechnic student. It aired on February 2014 on Channel U.
On September 2014, Wong starred in her first MediaCorp Channel 8 drama Against the Tide alongside Christopher Lee, Rui En and Desmond Tan, playing a schizophrenic woman. The drama aired from September 24 to 24 October 2014 for 23 episodes.
On November 2014, Wong starred in end-of-year blockbuster The Journey: Tumultuous Times, where she plays a hot-tempered sweet soup seller. Her acting garnered positive reviews, which garnered her a nomination for Best Newcomer, Best Supporting Actress and bagged her first Top 10 Most Popular Artistes on Star Awards 2015.
Shortly after The Journey: Tumultuous Times, she was involved in long-running drama 118 where she plays a girl from Malaysia coming to Singapore to look for her father. The drama aired from October 20, 2014 to October 16, 2015 for 255 episodes on Channel 8.
In 2015, Wong landed her first leading role in romance drama Sealed With A Kiss, acting alongside Rebecca Lim, Elvin Ng and Zhang Zhenhuan. The drama aired from August 27 to September 24, 2015 for 20 episodes on Channel 8.
On the same year, She also starred in her second long-running drama Life – Fear Not, which aired from October 19, 2015 to April 1, 2016 for 120 episodes on Channel 8.
2016–2018: Rising popularity
In 2016, Wong bagged her second Top 10 Most Popular Artistes Award and was nominated for Best Supporting Actress Award on Star Awards 2016.
On the same year, Wong made her small screen comeback in The Gentlemen as one of the leading females, playing a woman who knows what cup size women should wear just by one look. The drama aired from August 9 to September 5, 2016 for 20 episodes on Channel 8. She also starred in nursing drama You Can Be An Angel 2, playing a former lawyer who later became a nurse. The drama was well-received and aired from November 1 to November 28, 2016 for 20 episodes on Channel 8.
In 2017, Wong starred in Dream Coder, playing front-end developer who later suffered from brain tumours. It aired from February 7 to March 6, 2017 for 20 episodes on Channel 8. On the same year, she starred in My Friends From Afar, playing an alien from the AMIKUS Planet who fell in love with a human being who later is revealed to be half-human and half-alien. Her role garnered her first nomination for Best Actress in Star Awards 2018.
In 2018, Wong bagged her fourth Top 10 Most Popular Artistes Award on Star Awards 2018. She also acted in meWATCH original series My Agent Is A Hero, VIC, and Love At Cavenagh Bridge before going on a half year break for acting lesson in Taiwan. She returned to the small screen on the same year in October in You Can Be An Angel 3.
2019–present: Continued successes
In 2019, she bagged her fifth Top 10 Most Popular Artistes Award and gained a second nomination for Best Actress in Star Awards 2019 for her role in meWATCH original series VIC. She also had lead roles in Hello Miss Driver, and My One In A Million.
In 2020, Wong starred in period time travel drama A Quest to Heal. Filming began in late 2019 and made its debut on July 20, 2020 on Channel 8. On the same year, she made her return to long-running drama in Recipe of Life.
Filmography
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Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2014 | Spouse For House | Sarah Toh | Cameo |
| Year | Title | Role | Network | Notes |
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| 2020 | Recipe of Life 味之道 |
Zhou Minming 周敏明 |
Mediacorp Channel 8 |
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| A Quest to Heal 我的女侠罗明依 |
Luo Mingyi 罗明依 |
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| 2019 | My One In A Million 我的万里挑一 |
Yan Shuyu 严书彧 |
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| Hello Miss Driver 下一站，遇见 |
Lin Chenxi 林晨曦 |
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| 2018 | You Can Be An Angel 3 你也可以是天使3 |
Jin Siyan 金思彦 |
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| 118 Reunion 118 大团圆 |
Zhang Ke'ai 张可爱 |
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| 2017-2018 | My Friends From Afar 知星人 |
Ms Wong
黄老师 |
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| Chen Fengjiao 陈凤娇 |
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| 2017 | Dream Coder 梦想程式 |
Fang Ru 方如 |
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| 2016-2017 | 118 II
118 II |
Zhang Ke'ai 张可爱 |
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| Hero
大英雄 |
Alexa |
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| 2016 | You Can Be An Angel 2 你也可以是天使2 |
Jin Siyan 金思彦 |
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| The Gentlemen 来自水星的男人 |
Wang Kaixin 王凯欣 |
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| 2015-2016 | Life – Fear Not 人生无所畏 |
Bai Meigui 白梅桂 |
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| 2015 | Sealed With A Kiss 吻我吧, 住家男 |
Tian Zhenzhen 田珍珍 |
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| 2014-2015 | 118
118 |
Zhang Ke'ai 张可爱 |
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| The Journey: Tumultuous Times 信约: 动荡的年代 |
Bai Lanxiang 白兰香 |
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| 2014 | Against The Tide 逆潮 |
Di Yao 狄遥 | ||
| Scarlet | ||||
| Scrum! 冲锋 |
Li Siqi
李思琪 |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2016 | Don't Worry, Be Healthy 家有一保 |
Elena |
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| 2015 | Love On Air 音为爱 |
Eve |
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Web series
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2019 | A World of Difference 都市狂想 |
Claire Tan Sixuan 陈思璇 |
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| My Agent Is A Hero II 流氓经纪 II |
Suzy Ong |
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| 2018 | Love At Cavenagh Bridge
加文纳桥的约定 |
Xu Peizhen 许佩珍 |
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| VIC
维多利亚的模力 |
Vicky Zhan 詹予柔 |
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| Victoria Lek 厉胜男 | |||
| My Agent Is A Hero 流氓经纪 |
Suzy Ong | ||
| 2017 | My Alien Girlfriend
我的知星女友 |
Chen Fengjiao
陈凤娇 |
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Variety series
| Year | Title | Notes |
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| 2013 | Hey Gorgeous 校园美魔王 |
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| Style: Check In 2 潮人攻略 2 |
Guest Host | |
| 2014 | Style: Check In 5 潮人攻略 5 |
Guest Host |
| Ladies Nite 3 女人聚乐部3 |
Guest | |
| 2015 | Toggle Talk 星客驾到 |
Guest |
| Star Awards 2015 Prelude 红星大奖2015庆奏 |
Nominee | |
| Hey Gorgeous 2015 校园美魔王2015 |
Special Guest | |
| 2016 | Star Awards 2016 Prelude 红星大奖2016庆奏 |
Nominee |
| Touch-Screen Cuisine 弹指间的料理 |
Guest | |
| Life Hacks 没那么简单 |
Guest | |
| As I Hold Your Hand 大手牵老手 |
Guest | |
| Mars Vs Venus 2 金星火星大不同 2 |
Guest | |
| 2017 | The Road to Star Awards 2017 红星大奖 影聚响宴 |
Nominee |
Compilation album
| Year | English title | Mandarin title |
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| 2016 | MediaCorp Music Lunar New Year Album 16 | 新传媒群星金猴添喜庆 |
| 2017 | MediaCorp Music Lunar New Year Album 17 | 新传媒群星咕鸡咕鸡庆丰年 |
| 2018 | MediaCorp Music Lunar New Year Album 18 | 新传媒群星阿狗狗过好年 |
| 2019 | MediaCorp Music Lunar New Year Album 19 | 新传媒群星猪饱饱欢乐迎肥年 |
Discography
Drama OST
| Year | Drama Title | Song Title | Other Singer(s) | Notes |
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| 2015 | Life – Fear Not 人生无所谓 |
一样 | Aloysius Pang 冯伟衷 |
Sub-theme Song 插曲 |
| 2019 | Hello Miss Driver 下一站，遇见 |
Life Rose 生命蔷薇 |
— | Theme Song 主题曲 |
| The Next Stop 下一站 |
Deng Biyuan 邓碧源 |
Sub-theme Song 插曲 |
Accolades
| Year | Award | Category | Nominated Work | Result |
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| 2013 | Hey Gorgeous | Champion | Nanyang Polytechnic | Nominated |
| 2nd Runner-Up | Won | |||
| 2015 | 21st Star Awards Ceremony | BottomSlim Sexiest Legs Award | — | Nominated |
| Best Supporting Actress | The Journey: Tumultuous Times (as Bai Lanxiang) |
Nominated | ||
| Best Newcomer | — | Nominated | ||
| Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes | — | Won | ||
| 2016 | 22nd Star Awards Ceremony | Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes | — | Won |
| Social Media Award | — | Won | ||
| Best Supporting Actress | 118 (as Zhang Ke'ai) |
Nominated | ||
| 2017 | 23rd Star Awards Ceremony | Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes | — | Won |
| 2018 | 24th Star Awards Ceremony | Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes | — | Won |
| Best Actress | My Friends From Afar (as Chen Fengjiao) |
Nominated | ||
| 2019 | 25th Star Awards Ceremony | Best Actress | VIC (as Vicky Zhan) |
Nominated |
| Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes | — | Won | ||
| 2021 | 26th Star Awards Ceremony | Best Actress | A Quest to Heal (as Luo Mingyi) |
Nominated |
| 26th Star Awards Ceremony | Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes | — | Won |
References
- ^ Lee, Jocelyn (5 February 2015). "Star Awards rookie nominee Carrie Wong laments lack of suitors". The New Paper. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
- ^ Yeo, Melissa (January 5, 2016). "10 Carrie Wong Facts That Prove She Is The Next Fann Wong".
- ^ a b "Everybody loves an angel". The Straits Times. October 31, 2016.