Helene Wong

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 mid1980s 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