Elvin Ng Choon Siong (born December 23, 1980) is a

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and former

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Early life

Ng attended Jurong Primary School,

Catholic High School Catholic schools are parochial pre-primary, primary and secondary educational institutions administered in association with the Catholic Church. , the Catholic Church operates the world's largest religious, non-governmental school system. In 201 ...

and

National Junior College National Junior College (NJC) is a government Junior college (Singapore), junior college located in Bukit Timah, Singapore. Established in 1969, it was the first government junior college in Singapore. NJC offers a two-year course for pre-universit ...

. He graduated with an honours degree in English literature from the

National University of Singapore The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a national university, national Public university, public research university in Singapore. It was officially established in 1980 by the merging of the University of Singapore and Nanyang University ...

Career

Ng was discovered through a talent search programme ''School Belle and the Beau'' hosted by MediaCorp DJ and Host, Dennis Chew and Belinda Lee, during his university days. They were filming the variety show at

where Ng studies at and his performance and looks caught the attention of the producers at MediaCorp. Ng was then given a supporting role in the 2005 series '' A Life of Hope'' where he acted alongside Joanne Peh, and after the airing of the series, MediaCorp offered Ng a contract with them. Subsequently, Ng received two nominations at the Star Awards 2006, but lost the Most Popular Newcomer award to Kelvin Tan Weilian. He won the Rocket Award for the biggest breakthrough at the

Star Awards 2010 Star Awards 2010 (Simplified Chinese, Chinese: 红星大奖 2010) was a double television award ceremony held in Singapore. It is part of the annual Star Awards organised by Mediacorp, MediaCorp for the two free-to-air channels, Channel 8 (Singapo ...

after earning a Best Actor nomination for his performance as a young man with autism in the series '' Breakout'' and also he was nominated for best on-screen couple with Zhou Ying in the same year. In 2008, Dai Xiangyu replaced him, who was originally selected but was injured just prior to the filming, to play the role of Yamamoto Yousuke, in the drama series, '' The Little Nyonya''.

Filmography

Television series

Film

Bibliography

*''Our Epic Little Lives'' (伟大的卑微; 2013)

Awards and nominations

References

External links

Elvin Ng's personal blog
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ng, Elvin Singaporean people of Hokkien descent Singaporean male television actors 21st-century Singaporean male actors Catholic High School, Singapore alumni National Junior College alumni National University of Singapore alumni Living people 1980 births