Mandy Wong started her career after the Miss Hong Kong 2007 beauty pageant. She was the top 5 finalist of the beauty pageant. However, she was not alike other Miss HKs who debuted in TVB taking on heavy supporting roles in dramas. While many from beauty pageants did not take on acting classes before debuting, Mandy attended TVB's acting class of 2008. She made a brief appearances and small supporting roles for a few years before she had a breakthrough role in the drama Suspects in Love where audiences started to notice her. From then onward, she took on heavy supporting roles in dramas such as Mei Suet in The Hippocratic Crush. She finally got the Most Improved Female Artiste award last year after working hard for many years. But, TVB seems to be casting her in many supporting roles instead of letting her tryout some lead roles. Even in the new drama, Housewife Madam, Priscilla Wong got the lead role while Mandy Wong got the supporting role.
This would be very similar to Nancy Wu. Lots had said that Nancy Wu has very good acting chops, even better than some of the Fadans now. However, TVB had been giving Nancy Wu many supporting roles over the years. She was only recognized by TVB last year as she was given the Best supporting actress award. Although TVB had given her some lead roles, but it was only second female leads or some male oriented dramas. One example would be the upcoming Midas drama, Nancy Wu is only second lead behind Kate Tsui. I think that Nancy Wu is better at acting than Kate Tsui. And since Nancy is so good at dancing, she should take the lead for dancing at the TVB gala show instead of always letting Kate Tsui take the lead for dancing. One thing I felt very angry about is that Eliza Sum seems to be leading over Nancy Wu in the new drama Coffee Cat Mama!! Eliza Sum had spoiled The Hippocratic Crush 2 with her bad acting and taking up to much screen time. How could TVB let Eliza Sum lead over Nancy?? So, is this going to be Mandy Wong's future, only getting supporting roles and not get good lead roles??
But, is Mandy Wong going to be the next Tavia Yeung instead? Tavia Yeung also started off getting cameo roles, but slowly she got recognised and got many supporting roles. Tavia then got lead roles and her hard work paid off as she got the Best Actress award last year. And Tavia Yeung is currently a top Fadan in TVB. If you want to know more about Tavia Yeung, I have a post about Tavia Yeung in this blog.
Mandy Wong's career pathway in TVB now is very alike Tavia Yeung and Nancy Wu, but is her future going to be like Tavia Yeung or Nancy Wu?
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