Wendy Wong Biography
Wendy
Wong (Lead Actress) makes her brave acting debut in
Birthday
Party, single-handedly carrying the film from beginning to
end. She met the Director, Tony Lam, on the set of a music video, Skin
Trade, where she was the Costume Designer.
Wendy graduated from the
University of South Carolina in 1997 with a degree in Molecular
Biology and Biochemistry. She pursued graduate work and cancer
research at MGH/Harvard Medical School upon graduation. After
specializing in the study of yeast as a model organism for studying
protein-protein interactions, she moved to the UCLA Medical School
to lead a research study in HIV protein-protein interactions at the
AIDS Institute.
Her career switched
gears in 2001 when she joined Bain & Company, Los Angeles, a
strategy management consulting firm, where she is now in Marketing.
In 2003, she helped engineer and implement the launch of
a company-wide rebranding effort by piloting the roll-out in the Los
Angeles office. Wendy co-led the direction, production and casting
for a global corporate identity video for the company brand launch.
In addition to brand
marketing, Wendy's hobbies include jewelry and fashion design, which
has sprung a recent line of custom jewelry, Mon Petit Chou™. Deeply
rooted in her love of visual arts, Wendy also aspires to be a
fashion designer and has plans to launch her own clothing line in
the near future. She is currently a student of fashion design at
Otis School of Art and Design in Los Angeles, when she is not
working at her day job.
A person of many
creative interests, she is always willing to go with what catches
her eye and heart, including her film debut as Laura in Tony Lam's
Birthday Party. |