Ivana Wong, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actress
Ivana Wong (Chinese: 王菀之; born 18 June 1979) is a Hong Kong female singer-songwriter who entered the music industry in 2005. In subsequent years, she swept the board of creative singer awards as well as songwriting awards. She was awarded the Singer-Songwriter Awards in Commercial Radio's Ultimate Song Chart Awards Presentation for seven consecutive years, including four times of Singer-Songwriter Gold Awards, for which she was widely acclaimed as “the Queen of Singer Songwriters (唱作皇后)”.

In 2011, Ivana wrote and performed the theme song “Missed Address” for the movie “A Beautiful Life” directed by Andrew Lau Wai-keung. It was nominated as Best Original Film Song in a Movie Picture. In 2012, her song “Liu Bai” achieved the 2012 Golden Song JSG Award (Jade Solid Gold Awards Presentation) and was the only song awarded in all four music award ceremonies in the industry. Her debut concert held in the Hong Kong Coliseum in October 2011, “The Water Lily Concert”, led by three renowned musical directors working with an orchestra of forty-two musicians, was considered unprecedented and phenomenal, and was recognized by all as an “art Show upsurge that overpowers the HK Coliseum”. She then had her second concert held in the Hong Kong Coliseum in May 2014, and her first collaboration concert with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra held in the Concert Hall at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre in October 2015, “Fragrance of Music, Ivana Wong x Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra”. Both concerts received immense praise.

Apart from being a professional singer, Ivana has made a number of appearances in dramas. In 2010, she appeared in the musical drama “Octave”, which held nineteen full-house shows, and the music she wrote for this drama was nominated for The Best Original Music Score in a Drama in the 20th Hong Kong Drama Society Award. In 2011, her appearance in the Broadway Musical “I Love You Because” brought her the first nomination for Best Supporting Actress in the 21st Hong Kong Drama Award Presentation.

In 2013, she appeared the first time as actress-in-a-main-role in the TVB series “Inbound Troubles”. Subsequently, in the same year, she took the role of Wu Lu, as her film debut, in the Lunar New Year movie “Golden Chickensss”. Her acting was widely praised, and this role brought her accolades “Best Performer” and “Best Supporting Actress” of The 34th Hong Kong Film Awards in 2015, also “Best Newcomer” of Hong Kong Film Directors’ Guild. She participated in the performance of the stage play "Little HK 4-6" from 2013 to 2017. In May 2018, she formed “Lungg” together with Michael Ning and Yeung Wai Leun (Lun) for the 21 performances of the "Laboratory". In August 2019, she translated the Broadway romantic music comedy "First Date". Ivana Wong is the initiator of this play. She is an actor, producer, co-ordinator and investor. She participates all parts of the performance such as selection of repertoire, selection of plays, and translation of scripts.