Wallace Chung: The Life Story Behind China's Evergreen Star
In this post
- A Dancer’s Beginning in Hong Kong
- Singing in Taiwan and Learning to Perform
- Moving to the Mainland and Starting Again
- My Sunshine and the Role of He Yichen
- General and I and the Years After the Big Hit
- A Quiet Star in a Noisy Industry
- What Thirty Years of Steady Work Can Teach Us
- Concerts, Variety Shows, and Staying Close to His Fans
- My Take:
Wallace Chung is the kind of star who makes people ask the same question again and again. How does he still look so young? He was born in 1974, and he has been working in entertainment for more than thirty years, yet when he appears in a new drama, viewers still talk about his youthful face and his calm smile. The question is a compliment, but it is also a little unfair, because it hides the real story. Wallace Chung did not stay young by luck. He stayed working by changing, by learning, and by moving from one place and one kind of work to another, again and again, until he found the place where he belonged.
He began in Hong Kong as a dancer, a job that demands hard physical work and gives little fame. He became a singer in Taiwan, where he released albums and performed on stage. He acted in Hong Kong television, and then he moved to mainland China, where he built a second career as a leading man in romantic dramas. Each move was a risk. Each move meant leaving behind an audience that already knew him and starting again in front of people who did not. Most performers would be happy with one of those careers. Wallace Chung built three, one after the other, and he did it without scandal and without noise.
The role that most people remember best is He Yichen in My Sunshine, the 2015 drama about a lawyer who waits seven years for the woman he loves. The character was quiet, patient, and deeply loyal, and Wallace Chung played him with a stillness that made the romance feel real. Viewers did not only fall in love with the character. They fell in love with the idea of a man who could wait, who could forgive, and who could love one person for a very long time. This is the story of how a dancer from Hong Kong became that man on screen, and how he kept his career alive for three decades by working hard and staying out of trouble.
A Dancer’s Beginning in Hong Kong
Wallace Chung was born on 30 November 1974 in Hong Kong. Hong Kong in the 1970s and 1980s was a busy and crowded city, full of markets, cinemas, and television studios. It was also a city where many young people dreamed of working in entertainment, because Hong Kong films and television dramas were watched all over Asia. Wallace Chung grew up in this world, and like many boys in Hong Kong he watched television and listened to pop music, and he began to dream of a life on stage.
His first step into entertainment was not acting. It was dancing. He joined the dance training programme of TVB, the big Hong Kong television station, and he learned how to move, how to keep time with music, and how to perform in front of a live audience. Dancing is hard work. It needs long hours of practice, strong legs, and a good memory for steps. It also needs discipline, because a dancer who misses a step can spoil a whole performance. Wallace Chung learned that discipline early, and it stayed with him for the rest of his career. He was not the most famous dancer in Hong Kong, but he was a reliable one, and people in the industry began to notice him.
Dancing also taught him something important about performing. A dancer cannot hide behind words. The body has to tell the story. Wallace Chung learned to use his posture, his hands, and his face to show feeling, and that skill would later help him as an actor. When he played a quiet man in a drama, he did not need many lines to show what the character was feeling. He could show it by standing still, by looking at someone, or by the way he walked into a room. That is a skill that comes from years of dancing, and it is one reason his performances often feel calm and natural.
He also learned that a career in entertainment is uncertain. Dancers work hard, but they are often in the background, and they are rarely paid well. Wallace Chung wanted more. He wanted to sing, to act, and to be in front of the camera. He began to look for chances to move forward, and he was willing to leave Hong Kong to find them. That willingness to move, to start again in a new place, would become the pattern of his whole life.
Singing in Taiwan and Learning to Perform
In the early 1990s, Wallace Chung moved to Taiwan to work as a singer. Taiwan at that time had a large and lively pop music scene, and many Hong Kong singers went there to record albums and to perform. Wallace Chung released music, and he became known as a young singer with a gentle voice and a good stage presence. He performed on television shows, he gave concerts, and he built a group of fans who liked his songs and his polite manner.
Being a singer taught him how to deal with an audience. A singer has to stand alone on a stage and hold the attention of hundreds or thousands of people. There is no other actor to share the work, and there is no second take. Wallace Chung learned to be calm under pressure, to smile when he was tired, and to keep going when a performance did not go well. He also learned how to take care of his voice and his health, because a singer who loses his voice cannot work. These lessons were useful, but singing alone was not enough for him. He wanted to tell stories, not only to sing songs.
He began to act in television dramas in Taiwan and in Hong Kong, taking small parts at first and learning how a drama set worked. Acting for television was different from singing on a stage. The camera was close, and it could see every small expression. Wallace Chung had to learn to be smaller and quieter in his acting, to let the camera come to him instead of performing to a large hall. He was a quick learner, and directors began to give him bigger parts. He played young men in love, and he played men who were kind and honest, and audiences liked him.
The years in Taiwan were important because they gave him time to grow. He was not yet a big star, and he was not under the same pressure as the most famous singers. He could try new things, make mistakes, and learn from them. He also learned how to live away from home, how to work with people from different places, and how to keep going when work was slow. By the late 1990s, he had become a well known singer and actor in the Chinese speaking world, but he had not yet found the role that would define him.
Moving to the Mainland and Starting Again
In the 2000s, Wallace Chung made a decision that changed his career. He moved his work to mainland China. At that time, mainland television was growing fast, and many dramas were being made in Beijing, Shanghai, and other large cities. The audience was huge, and the budgets were getting bigger. Many Hong Kong and Taiwan actors moved to the mainland to find new work, but not all of them succeeded. The mainland audience had its own tastes, and an actor who was famous in Hong Kong could be unknown in Beijing. Wallace Chung had to start again, and he was willing to do it.
He took roles in mainland dramas, and he worked steadily. He played in historical dramas, in modern dramas, and in romantic stories. He learned to work with mainland directors and mainland actors, and he learned how mainland television was made. He was patient, and he did not complain about starting again. He knew that a new audience had to be won slowly, one drama at a time. He also knew that his age was becoming a problem in the eyes of some producers, because television often prefers very young actors for romantic leads. He did not let that stop him. He kept himself fit, he kept his voice and his manner calm, and he waited for the right part.
One of his early mainland successes was the drama Too Late to Say I Love You, in which he played a warlord in the 1920s who fell in love with a young woman. The drama was popular, and it showed that Wallace Chung could play a strong and serious man, not only a gentle singer. He also played in The Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, a martial arts drama based on the novels of Jin Yong, and in other costume dramas that were watched by large audiences. These roles helped him to build a new reputation in the mainland, and they showed that he could handle action and history as well as romance.
The move to the mainland was not easy, but it was the right decision. It gave him a much larger audience, and it gave him the chance to play the kind of leading man that he had always wanted to be. He was no longer only a former dancer and singer from Hong Kong. He was becoming a mainland television star, and his best work was still ahead of him.
My Sunshine and the Role of He Yichen
In 2015, Wallace Chung played the part that most people now remember him for. In the drama My Sunshine, based on a popular novel, he played He Yichen, a successful lawyer who had loved a woman named Zhao Mosheng since their university days. The two had been separated for seven years, and when they met again, He Yichen was still waiting for her. He was calm, patient, and loyal, and he had never stopped loving her. The drama told the story of how they found their way back to each other, and it became one of the most talked about romantic dramas of the year.
Wallace Chung was forty years old when he played He Yichen, and that was part of why the performance worked. He did not play the character as a young boy in love. He played him as a grown man who had waited a long time, who had built a career, and who knew what he wanted. His stillness, his quiet voice, and his careful way of looking at the woman he loved made the romance feel real. Viewers said that he was the perfect He Yichen, and many fans of the novel said that they could not imagine anyone else in the part.
My Sunshine was a huge success. It was watched by millions of people, and it made Wallace Chung one of the most popular actors in China. He won awards for the role, and he became known to a new generation of viewers who had not followed his earlier work as a singer and dancer. The drama also gave him a new image. He was no longer only a handsome actor. He was the actor who could play a man who waited seven years for love, and who made that waiting feel noble instead of foolish. That image has stayed with him ever since.
The success of My Sunshine also showed something important about Wallace Chung. He had been working for more than twenty years, and he had not given up. He had moved from Hong Kong to Taiwan to the mainland, and he had kept learning. When the right role finally came, he was ready for it. Many actors would have become bitter after twenty years of hard work without a defining role. Wallace Chung did not. He stayed calm, he stayed fit, and he stayed ready. My Sunshine was his reward for that patience.
General and I and the Years After the Big Hit
After My Sunshine, Wallace Chung could have played the same kind of romantic lawyer again and again. He did not. He chose different roles, and he tried to show that he could do more than play a patient lover. In 2017, he played in General and I, a historical drama in which he played Bai Pingting’s lover, a general named Chu Beijie. The drama was set in a time of war and politics, and it needed an actor who could be strong, brave, and loyal. Wallace Chung worked hard on the part, and the drama was watched by a large audience, even though it was also criticised for its production. He took the criticism calmly, and he kept working.
He also played in modern dramas, in family stories, and in dramas about work and life in the city. He played a man who ran a business, a man who tried to repair a broken family, and a man who learned to be a father. These roles were not as famous as He Yichen, but they showed his range. He was not only a romantic hero. He was an actor who could play ordinary men with ordinary problems, and who could make those problems feel real. He also continued to sing, and he performed in concerts and on television shows, keeping alive the part of his career that had started in Taiwan.
Wallace Chung also became known for his private life, or rather for how little he shared of it. He rarely talked about his family in public, and he kept his personal life out of the news. In a world where many stars share every detail of their lives on social media, his quietness was unusual. He did not seem to want attention for his private life. He wanted attention for his work, and then he wanted to go home. That quietness earned him respect, and it also helped him to avoid the scandals that have damaged the careers of other stars.
He continued to work steadily into his forties and fifties, and he continued to look after his health. He exercised, he ate carefully, and he kept a regular routine. People often asked him how he stayed young, and he usually answered with a smile and a simple reply about exercise and a good life. The real answer was probably simpler. He had worked hard for thirty years, and he had learned how to take care of himself, because his body was his tool. A dancer learns that early, and Wallace Chung never forgot it.
A Quiet Star in a Noisy Industry
Wallace Chung’s career is unusual because it has lasted so long without a big scandal or a sudden fall. Many stars become famous quickly and then disappear. Wallace Chung became famous slowly, and he stayed famous by working steadily. He did not chase every trend, and he did not try to be the loudest person in the room. He built his career one drama at a time, and he let his work speak for him. That is a quiet way to succeed, but it is a lasting way.
His story also shows how the Chinese entertainment world changed over thirty years. When he started, Hong Kong was the centre of Chinese pop culture. Then Taiwan became important for singers. Then the mainland became the biggest market of all. Wallace Chung moved with those changes, and he adapted to each new place. He learned new ways of working, new kinds of drama, and new audiences. Many performers are afraid to move, because moving means starting again. Wallace Chung was not afraid to move, and that courage is a big part of his success.
He is also a reminder that an actor does not have to be young to play a romantic lead. When he played He Yichen at forty, many people said that he was too old for a romantic drama. They were wrong. The audience loved him, because he brought the weight of a real life to the part. He had lived, he had worked, he had waited, and he understood what it meant to love someone for a long time. A younger actor could not have played that part in the same way. Wallace Chung’s age was not a problem. It was the reason the performance worked.
Today, Wallace Chung is still working, and he is still respected. He is not in the news every day, and he does not try to be. He appears in dramas, he sings, and he meets his fans, and then he goes back to his quiet life. That may not sound exciting, but it is a kind of success that many stars never achieve. He has a long career, a good reputation, and an audience that still loves him. That is more than most performers can hope for, and it is the result of thirty years of hard work and good choices.
What Thirty Years of Steady Work Can Teach Us
The most important thing about Wallace Chung is not his face, even though people talk about his face a great deal. The most important thing is his patience. He waited for the right roles, he moved to new places when he needed to, and he kept working even when he was not the most famous person in the room. That patience is rare, and it is worth studying. In a world that rewards speed, Wallace Chung rewards slowness. He shows that a career can be built over decades, not in a single year, and that a person who keeps learning can still surprise an audience at forty.
His career also teaches a lesson about starting again. Many people are afraid to start again, because it feels like failure. Wallace Chung started again three times, first as a dancer, then as a singer, then as a mainland actor. Each time, he had to prove himself to new people. Each time, he did it without complaining. That is a useful lesson for anyone who has to change jobs, move to a new city, or learn a new skill. Starting again is not a sign of failure. It is a sign that you are willing to grow.
Finally, his story teaches a lesson about privacy. Wallace Chung has kept his private life private, and he has let his work be the thing that people talk about. That is not easy in a time when social media rewards people for sharing everything. It takes discipline to say no to attention, and it takes confidence to believe that your work is enough. Wallace Chung has that discipline and that confidence, and it has served him well. His audience respects him, not only for his acting, but for the way he lives his life.
When people ask how Wallace Chung still looks so young, they are asking the wrong question. The right question is how he stayed working for so long, and how he kept his reputation clean, and how he found a role at forty that made him more famous than ever. The answer is not a secret cream or a special diet. The answer is thirty years of hard work, good choices, and patience. That is not as exciting as a secret, but it is more honest, and it is more useful for anyone who wants a long and happy career.
Concerts, Variety Shows, and Staying Close to His Fans
Wallace Chung never gave up singing, even after he became a television star. He continued to perform in concerts, to record songs, and to appear on music shows, keeping alive the part of his career that had started in Taiwan. His concerts were warm and simple, without huge special effects, and his fans loved them because they could see the real Wallace Chung, a man who loved to sing and who was grateful for his audience. He sang old songs from his early albums, and he sang new songs, and he talked to the audience between songs, telling them about his life and his work in a quiet and friendly way.
He also appeared on variety shows and on talk shows, where his calm manner and his gentle humour made him a favourite guest. He did not try to be the loudest person in the room. He listened, he smiled, and he answered questions honestly. Younger viewers who had only seen him in My Sunshine discovered that he had been a singer for many years, and that he had a long and interesting life before He Yichen. That discovery made them respect him even more, because they saw that his success had not come overnight. It had come from thirty years of singing, dancing, and acting, one step at a time.
Wallace Chung has also kept dancing close to his heart, even after many years as an actor, and he has appeared as a mentor and judge on dance programmes, where young dancers look up to him as a man who started as a dancer himself. He watches their performances with care, and he gives advice that comes from real experience, not from a script, because he remembers what it felt like to be young, to practise for hours, and to hope for a chance. That work as a mentor has brought him a new generation of fans, young people who may never have seen his early dramas, but who know him as a kind and honest teacher of dance.
My Take:
I want to be honest about Wallace Chung, because my first feeling about him was a shallow one. When I first heard his name, I thought about his face. I thought about how young he looks, and I wondered what his secret was. That is a silly way to think about a man who has worked for thirty years, and I am glad I spent time reading his story, because it made me feel a little ashamed of that first thought. A person’s face is the least interesting thing about them, and in Wallace Chung’s case the face hides a much more interesting story about work, patience, and starting again.
The part of his life that stays with me is the dancing. I think about a young man in Hong Kong, learning dance steps for hours every day, knowing that dancers are rarely famous and rarely well paid. Why would anyone do that? I think the answer is that he loved to perform, and he was willing to start at the bottom. That is not a small thing. Many people want to be famous, but few people want to be a dancer in the background, sweating in a rehearsal room while someone else takes the applause. Wallace Chung did that work, and he did it well, and I think it shaped everything that came after. A person who has danced in the background knows what hard work feels like, and that person does not take applause for granted later.
I also think about his move to Taiwan to sing. That must have been frightening. He was leaving Hong Kong, where he knew people, and going to a new place where he had to prove himself again. He was not yet a star, and he could have failed. I admire people who are willing to move, because moving is a kind of honesty. It says that you are not happy where you are, and you are willing to risk something to find a better place. Wallace Chung moved not once but several times, and each move was a risk. I think that courage is the most important part of his character, even though people rarely talk about it. They talk about his looks. They should talk about his courage.
Then there is the move to the mainland, which I think was the bravest move of all. By then he was already in his thirties, and he was already known in Hong Kong and Taiwan. He could have stayed where he was and lived a comfortable life. Instead, he went to the mainland and started again, in front of an audience that did not know him well. I try to imagine how that felt. You walk onto a set, and the crew does not know your name, and the audience does not know your songs, and you have to earn their respect from zero. That is humbling, and it is also frightening. Many people would not do it. They would stay where they are comfortable. Wallace Chung did not stay comfortable, and that is why his career grew.
I think My Sunshine is a good drama, but I want to say something that might sound unkind. I think the drama worked so well partly because Wallace Chung was forty, not twenty-five. A twenty-five year old actor could not have played He Yichen in the same way, because he would not have known what seven years of waiting feels like. Wallace Chung had waited in his own life. He had waited for good roles, he had waited for a new audience, he had waited for his career to grow. He knew what waiting felt like, and he brought that knowledge to the part. That is why the audience believed him. It was not only acting. It was life experience, and it cannot be faked.
I also respect his privacy, and I want to explain why. In the world we live in now, famous people are expected to share everything. They are expected to post pictures of their families, to talk about their feelings, to be available all the time. Wallace Chung does not do that, and some people might think he is cold or distant. I do not think he is cold. I think he is protecting something important. He is protecting the part of his life that belongs to him and to his family, not to the public. I think that is a healthy choice, and I think more famous people should make it. A person who shares everything has nothing left for himself, and a person who has nothing left for himself cannot do good work for long.
There is a sad side to his story too, and it is a quiet sadness, not a dramatic one. He worked for twenty years before he found the role that defined him. Twenty years is a long time to wait. During those years, he must have watched other actors become famous faster, and he must have wondered whether his turn would ever come. I think that waiting is hard, and I think it is honest to say so. We like stories where success comes quickly, because they are exciting. But most real careers are slow, and most real success comes after years of work that nobody sees. Wallace Chung’s story is a slow story, and I think that is why it is useful. It tells the truth about how long good work can take.
I also think about his body, and I do not mean his face. I mean the way he has looked after himself for thirty years. He was a dancer, and dancers learn early that the body is a tool. If you do not look after it, you cannot work. Wallace Chung has looked after his body for decades, and that is not vanity. It is professionalism. He exercises, he eats well, and he keeps a routine. I think that is a lesson for anyone who works with their body, whether they are a dancer, a labourer, or an athlete. Your body is not separate from your work. It is your work, and looking after it is part of doing the job well.
I want to say something about his singing as well, because people sometimes forget that he was a singer first. Singing taught him how to stand alone on a stage and hold an audience. That is a lonely skill, and it is a brave one. When you sing, there is no one else to hide behind. If you forget the words, everyone knows. If your voice shakes, everyone hears it. Wallace Chung learned to be calm in that lonely place, and that calmness shows in his acting. When he plays a quiet man, he does not look nervous. He looks comfortable in the silence, and that comfort comes from years of standing alone on a stage.
If I could ask Wallace Chung one question, I would ask him what kept him going during the years when he was not famous. What did he tell himself on the days when work was slow and when other people were getting the roles he wanted? I do not know his answer, but I think it would be simple. I think he would say that he loved the work, and that he believed his turn would come, and that he was willing to wait. I think that is a good answer, and I think it is an answer that many people need to hear. We live in a time when everyone wants success now, and when waiting feels like failure. Wallace Chung shows that waiting is not failure. Waiting, while you work and learn, is how success is built.
I also think his story is a story about Asia changing. When he started, Hong Kong was the centre of Chinese entertainment. Then Taiwan was important. Then the mainland became the biggest market. Wallace Chung moved with those changes, and he did not complain about them. He learned new ways of working, and he made new friends, and he found new audiences. That is a useful lesson for anyone who lives in a changing world. The world will change whether you like it or not. You can either complain about the change, or you can learn from it and move with it. Wallace Chung moved with it, and he is still working because of that choice.
In the end, what I take from Wallace Chung is not a secret about looking young. What I take is a quieter and more useful lesson. Start at the bottom if you have to. Learn your craft properly. Be willing to move and to start again. Look after your body. Keep your private life private. Wait for the right role, and when it comes, be ready. That is not an exciting lesson, and it will not make a good headline. But it is an honest lesson, and it is the lesson of a man who has worked for thirty years and who is still respected. I think that is worth more than a headline, and I think it is worth remembering the next time someone asks how he still looks so young. He looks young because he has lived well, worked hard, and stayed calm. That is the real secret, and it is not a secret at all. I also think about his concerts, and about what it means to sing for thirty years. A singer’s voice changes with age, and a singer has to learn to use it in new ways. Wallace Chung has done that, and he still performs, because he loves to sing. I think that love is important. It is easy to love work when you are young and famous. It is harder to love it when you are older and when the audience is smaller. Wallace Chung still loves it, and that tells me that his love for performing is real, not only a way to earn money. He performs because he enjoys it, and that enjoyment shows in his face when he sings.
There is one more thing I want to say about his dancing, because people forget that he started as a dancer, and I think dancing shaped him more than singing or acting did. A dancer learns to control his body, to be disciplined, and to work as part of a team. A dancer also learns that the audience sees everything, and that you cannot hide a mistake. Wallace Chung learned those lessons as a young man, and he has carried them with him for thirty years. When he acts, he moves like a dancer, with grace and control. When he sings, he stands like a dancer, with good posture and calm. That is a quiet gift, and it is one that comes from years of hard training.
I also want to say something about Hong Kong, the city where he was born, and how it shaped him. Hong Kong is a fast city, full of people, noise, and energy. It teaches you to work hard, to be polite, and to keep going. Wallace Chung has that Hong Kong spirit in him, even after many years working in the mainland. He is polite, he is hard working, and he does not complain. I think that is a good combination, and it is one reason he has been able to work in three different places, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the mainland, and to be liked in all of them. He adapts, but he does not lose himself, and that is a difficult balance to keep.
Finally, I want to say that Wallace Chung’s story makes me think about my own life, and about the times when I have had to start again. Starting again is frightening, and it is tempting to stay where you are comfortable. But Wallace Chung shows that starting again can be the best thing you do, if you are willing to learn and to work. He started again three times, and each time he became better. I will remember that the next time I face a change in my own life. I will tell myself to be brave, to be patient, and to trust that hard work will pay off, even if it takes twenty years. I also think about his work on variety shows, and about how he handles being a guest. He is polite, he listens, and he does not try to steal the show. That is a kind of generosity that is rare on television, where many guests try to be the centre of attention. Wallace Chung is happy to be part of the show, not the star of it, and that makes him a welcome guest everywhere he goes. I think that is a good way to live, not always needing to be first, but being happy to contribute. A person who can do that is a person who is secure, and Wallace Chung is secure in who he is and what he has achieved.
I also want to say something about his fans, and about the loyalty they show him. His fans have followed him for thirty years, from his days as a singer in Taiwan to his days as a television star in the mainland. That loyalty is not given lightly. It is earned, by hard work, by kindness, and by consistency. Wallace Chung has earned it, by showing up, year after year, and by doing good work. I think that is a beautiful thing, a relationship between an artist and his audience that has lasted for decades. It is not based on one hit, or on a moment of fame. It is based on trust, built slowly, over a long time.
Finally, I want to say that Wallace Chung’s story is a quiet one, and I like quiet stories. It is not a story about scandal, or about sudden fame. It is a story about a dancer who became a singer, who became an actor, who moved to a new place, and who kept working until the right role came. That is a story about patience, courage, and hard work, and it is a story that anyone can learn from. I will remember it, and I will tell myself to be patient, to be brave, and to keep working, even when nobody is watching. Wallace Chung did that, for thirty years, and he succeeded. That is the best kind of success, and it is one that will last.
I want to say something about his work as a mentor on dance programmes, because it shows a side of him that acting alone does not show. When a young dancer performs badly, a judge can be cruel, and many judges are cruel, because cruelty makes good television. Wallace Chung is not cruel. He is honest, but he is kind, and he tells young dancers what they need to hear in a way that helps them to grow. I think that comes from his own life as a dancer, when he was young and afraid, and when a kind word would have meant a great deal. A man who remembers being young is a better teacher than a man who has forgotten. Another thing I think about is how his career crossed three places, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the mainland, and how each place changed him. Hong Kong taught him to dance and to work hard. Taiwan taught him to sing and to perform for a live audience. The mainland taught him to act in long dramas, and to reach hundreds of millions of people. Few actors have lived in all three worlds, and few have succeeded in all three. Wallace Chung did, because he was willing to start again, to learn a new language, a new style, and a new audience, each time. That willingness to begin again is, I think, the most important quality in his whole story. Finally, I want to say that Wallace Chung teaches me something about ageing that I did not expect. People always talk about how young he looks, and they ask for his secret, as if looking young were the point of his life. I think the point is different. The point is that he has kept learning, kept dancing, kept singing, and kept working, for more than thirty years, and that work has kept him alive and curious. Looking young is only the outside. The inside is a man who never stopped moving, never stopped learning, and never gave up on the next chance. That is the real secret, and it is one that anyone can follow, at any age.
Frequently Asked Questions
How did Wallace Chung start his career in entertainment?
Wallace Chung started as a dancer in the TVB dance training programme in Hong Kong, learning stage discipline and movement before he moved into singing and acting.
Why did Wallace Chung move to Taiwan to sing?
He moved to Taiwan in the early 1990s to work as a pop singer, where he released albums, performed on television, and built a fan base while learning to hold a stage alone.
When did Wallace Chung move his work to mainland China?
He moved his work to mainland China in the 2000s, taking roles in mainland dramas and starting again in front of a much larger audience.
Who did Wallace Chung play in My Sunshine?
In My Sunshine from 2015, Wallace Chung played He Yichen, a successful lawyer who waited seven years for Zhao Mosheng, the woman he loved since university.
What other mainland dramas is Wallace Chung known for?
He is also known for Too Late to Say I Love You, in which he played a warlord, and for General and I, in which he played the general Chu Beijie.
Why is Wallace Chung called an evergreen star?
He is called an evergreen star because he has worked for more than thirty years, stayed fit and calm, and remained popular as a leading man well into his forties and fifties.
Does Wallace Chung share much about his private life?
No, Wallace Chung keeps his private and family life mostly out of public view, preferring to let his acting and singing speak for him.