Helene Wong

Taihape, New Zealand

Helene Wong is a New Zealand actress and writer. She is a graduate in Sociology from Victoria University of Wellington. She first worked in Public Service, becoming social policy adviser to Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon in 1978. Her career took a different turn in the mid-1980s as she began working as a theatre actor and director before moving into film and television. She was appointed as the first script development executive in the NZ Film Commission, then worked as a freelance script consultant. In 1995, she wrote and directed the television documentary Footprints of the Dragon for the series An Immigrant Nation. The following year, she became a film critic with the New Zealand Listener. In 2016, she published the memoir Being Chinese.