Joan Wong(I)

Joan Wong was born and raised in Oakland/San Francisco, California to Jack and Yan Wong. She has one younger sibling, May. Joan is also the niece of Kung-Fu Master (Sifu), Wong Jack Man, who was best known for his controversial duel with Bruce Lee in 1964. Joan got her first taste of martial arts as a young girl from her Uncle Wong Jack Man when they used to play Kung-Fu games along with her cousins Chris and Stephanie (WJM two daughters). She then also briefly trained with her uncle in Kung-Fu at his studio in Fort Mason, San Francisco. Being raised in the Bay Area, it was easy for Joan to keep her heritage and Chinese language of Cantonese. Growing up, Joan has always loved performing whether it was Chinese Folk Dancing, piano, singing, Ballroom Dancing, or even putting skits and magic shows on for family, friends, and on stage. Doing school plays was where she fell in love with acting. After graduating college from Cal State University of Northridge, with a degree in Business Management Science, Joan decide to stay in Los Angeles, where she did some modeling and immersed fully into the acting world. Joan also had the opportunity to travel to Bangkok, Thailand to model, MC, and do radio commercials. While in Bangkok, Joan's love for sports and racing truly came out. She got sponsored by Team Birel to race professional Go-Karts. Being one of a few female top racers, Joan was asked to race composition cars too! However, she turned it down to return to her true calling of acting back in Los Angeles. Joan has studied with East-West Players, The Groundlings, Meisner Technique, and was a long time student at The Beverly Hills Playhouse. She will always call The Beverly Hills Playhouse her home. She even studied with greats like the Oscar winning writer/director Paul Haggis! Along with acting training, Joan has done some boxing training with The Saucedo Brother's, who's gym is sponsored by the Golden Boy himself, Oscar De La Hoya. She is also keeping up with her love for martial arts by training in Wushu Kung-Fu with Master Hu Jianqiang. With all that training, Joan has landed roles on shows like ARLI$$, Rock Me Baby, Monk, The Closer, Touch, and amongst many more movies & television shows. She even got to work with the funny and talented Whitney Cummings in Pet Friendly! And in the anticipated debut film The Way, directed by Khalili Dastan, Joan will be playing a Qi-Gong Master on death row. Along with the directing debut of comedy writer, Kyle Lau, in "White Now Please" where Joan plays a lovable cafeteria lady, Agnes. Be on the look out for Joan Wong, because this is just the tip of the ice berg with so much more to come!