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Claire Wong is a Singapore-based stage and film actress, director and filmmaker. Born in Malaysia, she is a resident of Singapore. A qualified lawyer, she graduated from the National University of Singapore and obtained her Master of Fine Arts in theatre at Columbia University in New York. She practised law first as a litigation associate and later as a corporate partner. Her corporate practice covered both Singapore and the region. She worked at the law firms Allen & Gledhill and Helen Yeo & Partners in Singapore and Freehills in Sydney. During the 1990s she performed in leading roles in Ong Keng Sen's post-modern ''Flowers of Destiny'', ''Madame Mao's Memories'', and ''Desdemona''.〔Curtis, Nick (1992) "(Edinburgh Festival Days 6 & 7: Madame Mao's Memories )", ''The Independent'', 22 August 1992, retrieved 11 July 2011〕〔Kennedy, Dennis & Yong, Li Lan (2010) ''Shakespeare in Asia: Contemporary Performance'', Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-51552-8, p. 262〕 More recently, she has acted in her husband Huzir Sulaiman's ''Atomic Jaya'', ''Cogito'',〔Koay, Allan (2007) "(Huzir’s reflections )", ''Malaysia Star'', 22 June 2007, retrieved 11 July 2011〕 and ''Occupation''. Her performance ''Atomic Jaya'' garnered her nominations for Best Actress and Best Ensemble Performance in both the Singapore Life! Theatre Awards and the Malaysian Cameronian Arts Awards respectively. She was also nominated for the Best Actress award for ''Occupation''. Claire is a co-founder of creative consultancy Studio Wong Huzir and serves as its Senior Consultant. She was also the Head of Corporate Communications for Rodyk & Davidson, Singapore’s first and oldest law firm, where she also oversees the firm’s in house training programme, and is a Joint Artistic Director of Checkpoint Theatre. She left Rodyk & Davidson at the end of November 2014 to spend more time with her elderly parents and focus on theatre. As a director, she was nominated for Best Director in the Singapore's Life! Theatre Awards for the landmark production of the trilogy of plays by Eleanor Wong, ''Invitation To Treat'' (2003). Claire co-directed the Singapore Arts Festival commission ''Occupation'' (2002). She received the Life! Theatre Award nomination for Best Director. Her other theatre directing credits include ''Up North Down South'' (2002) and ''Election Day'' (2004). For the 2006 International Festival of Women in Contemporary Theatre, she co-created and performed in the piece ''Recalling Mother''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://nus.edu.sg/cfa/our_talents/theatre/tutors/stage1.php )〕 Her screen directing began in 2005, when she wrote and directed a television film, ''Project Peter'', for Singapore's Arts Central channel. She wrote and directed a short film in Malaysia, ''Instant Noodles and Hot Chocolate'', and was the script consultant and performer in ''That Historical Feeling'', a Malaysian short film, which won a Bronze award at the Malaysian Video Awards. Claire has taught at the National University of Singapore, at both the Faculty of Law and in the Theatre Studies department.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://studiowonghuzir.com/people )〕 ==Selected filmography== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Claire Wong」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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