Entertainment
Gok Wan
Fashion Stylist and TV Presenter
Entertainment. Film, TV & Radio. Fashion.
Born in 1974 in Leicester, Gok has worked in the fashion industry for the best part of a decade. Studying at London's prestigious Central School of Speech and Drama, he found himself drawn to hair and make-up over drama, prompting his entrée into the fashion industry and gaining him early work as a hair and make-up artist on titles such as The Sunday Times Style.
Finding himself dissatisfied with beauty alone, however, Gok decided to pursue his love of clothes as a fashion stylist.
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Jo Ho
Screenwriter and Film DirectorEntertainment. Film, TV & Radio. Literature.
Jo is an award-winning film director and screenwriter who was born in Dagenham, Essex.
Jo currently has a big budget fantasy kids TV series in development with CBBC. Live action/cgi, the series is described as ‘Buffy set in a Chinese spirit world’. It is envisioned that the series, once commissioned, will be shot entirely in China – a first for the BBC.
After studying art at the University of Westminster, Jo went on to work in feature films in production on varying roles until she eventually realized her dream was to write and direct.
While she was working in production, she was profiled in CREATION magazine as a ‘young, driven and fanatically hardworking woman’.
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Benjamin Yeoh Seng-Loong
WriterArts. Entertainment. Film, TV & Radio. Literature. Theatre.
Ben is an award winning writer. He is one of the first British born Chinese writers to be performed in the UK.
Ben was born near London to a Singaporean mother and Malaysian father. He studied at Westminster School, Cambridge University and Harvard University.
Ben studied experimental psychology, behavioural neuroscience within Natural Sciences at Cambridge. There he also started directing plays. He won a scholarship to Harvard, where he trained in dramaturgy, directing and writing.
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Vanessa Mae at The Pearl Awards, Royal Festival Hall, November 2007
Vanessa Mae
British pop and classical musicianEntertainment. Music.
Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson (born October 27, 1978), known professionally as Vanessa-Mae, is an internationally known Singaporean-born British pop and classical musician, especially noted for her violin skills. Her music style is self-described as "violin techno-acoustic fusion", as several of her albums prominently feature the techno style.
Vanessa-Mae was born in Singapore to a Thai father and a Chinese mother. After her parents separated, her mother married Englishman Graham Nicholson, and the family moved to England when Vanessa-Mae was four years old. She grew up in London and is a British citizen.
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Dr. Johnny Sei-Hoe Hon
Honorary Consul of Grenada in Hong Kong and Chairman of the Global Group of CompaniesBusiness. Community. Education. Entertainment. Film, TV & Radio. Information Technology. Media.
B.Sc (Hons), M.A., Ph.D. (Cantab), D.Litt., F.A.B.I., F.A.O.E., ASI
In just nine years, Dr. Johnny Hon has built up an international conglomerate, with diverse interests ranging over banking, property development, financial services, education, media, entertainment and leisure, sports, gaming, telecoms, mining and biotechnology.
Yet, whilst building the Global Group of companies from scratch, Johnny has also managed to pursue a wide range of charitable, diplomatic and political interests.
He is the Ambassador-at-Large and Honorary Consul of Grenada in Hong Kong and holds official positions with four governments. Besides, Johnny is often consulted by Presidents, Prime Ministers and other state leaders who value his advice and insights.
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Tom Wu
Actor, Movement DirectorArts. Entertainment. Film, TV & Radio. Theatre.
Tom's forthcoming film roles include Fong in The Scorpion King: Rise of the Akkadian, Juba in Mutant Chronicles and Tatsumi in The Tournament. He has recently appeared as Lord John in film Revolver and on television as Lee Jiyong in Whistleblower, Jimmy Wu in Diamond Geezer, Perak in The Ruby in the Smoke, Lao Ai in The First Emperor, Huang Lok in Casualty, Lin Liang Ren in Death on the Beach, The Omid Djalili show amongst others.
Actor Tom Wu was born in the New Territories, Hong Kong, and grew up in London’s Chinatown. At the age of 10 he began practising Martial Arts such as Hung Gar, Karate and Wing Chun and later took up acrobatics. In 1988 he competed for Britain at China’s International Wu-Shu (Martial Arts) Tournament and was awarded 2 Bronze Medals, and a Gold Medal.
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Paul Hyu
Actor, Comedian, Chinese ElvisEntertainment. Film, TV & Radio.
In the field of British mainstream media, Paul Courtenay Hyu is blazing a trail for the British-born Chinese community. Perhaps most recognisable as AOL’s face in their ‘Chinese Elvis’ advertising campaign, he has also appeared in numerous TV shows and films such as The Bill, Casualty, and EastEnders.
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David Tse Ka-Shing
Artistic DirectorArts. Culture. Education. Entertainment. Film, TV & Radio. Theatre.
David read Law at Southampton University (1983-86) before training at Rose Bruford College (1986-89) as an actor. In 1996, he was the first British Chinese to receive an Arts Council bursary to train as a director at the Leicester Haymarket Theatre. He has worked extensively as an actor and writer, and became Artistic Director of Yellow Earth Theatre in 1995 where he has directed for twelve years.
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Kumiko Mendl
ActressArts. Culture. Education. Entertainment. Film, TV & Radio. Theatre.
Kumiko was born in Watford to a Japanese mother and a Jewish-German father. She trained at the Jacques Lecoq International Theatre school in Paris. Since then she has worked as an actress in theatre, for radio,TV, role-playing and for a traveling circus, as well as a teacher and director. ( She has also been movement director for a number of productions including the award winning Magic Fundoshi where she first met YET's Artistic Director, David Tse.) As one of the founding members of Yellow Earth Theatre, Kumiko has performed in Blue Remembered Hills (dir David Glass), Play to Win (dir David Tse) and co-directed Rashomon. She has been involved in Typhoon as script selector, director and actress.
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