A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Wong Man-Ying
黃曼凝
黄曼凝
Birthplace:
Hong Kong, China
Born:
August 19, 1961
Isabella Wong (Chinese: 黃曼凝) grew up in Block 34, Xiumoping, Kowloon, and graduated from the Department of Business Documents, Taiwan Ming Chuan College. In 1981, she participated in the shooting of Miss Hong Kong's promotional video, and then signed a contract with TVB (Television Broadcasts Limited). During her work at TVB, Isabella mostly appeared in Chinese costume dramas. She once played Guo Xiang in "The Legend of Condor Heroes", 1983, and Yilin in "Swordsman", 1984. In 1987, Isabella signed a contract with Golden Harvest Film Ltd and was one of the company's "Five New Flowers". In 1988, Isabella signed a contract with ATV (Asia Television), and then retired from the entertainment industry in 1993. In 2004, Isabella married with Lu Weili, Hong Kong Baptist University's Department of Film and Television Assistant Professor.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.