| Wu Pong-fong | |
| Native Name Lang: | zh |
| Birth Date: | 1964 11, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Taipei County, Taiwan |
| Death Place: | Banqiao, New Taipei, Taiwan |
| Nationality: | Republic of China |
| Occupation: | Actor, choreographer |
| Awards: | Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor Golden Bell Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film |
Wu Pong-fong (; 2 November 1964 – 25 May 2020) was a Taiwanese actor and choreographer.
Wu was born on 2 November 1964.[1] His father was from Zhao'an County in Fujian.[1] His parents married in 1950 and divorced when Wu was eight years old.[1] He lived with his father in Sanchong District.[1] Wu's father was supportive of the Kuomintang, and his uncle led a, also known as the Human Resources Second Office,[2] a department in every public institution charged with managing security and monitoring loyalty of public sector employees to the party.[3] Despite censorship of Taiwanese Hokkien at the time, Wu heard the dialect at a young age, as many of his classmates spoke it. In time, Wu began identifying as Taiwanese, and not as a Mainlander. Wu worked as a supervisor in a printing factory, but lost his job after a superior discovered that he was communicating to colleagues the number of vacation days allowed per year under the provisions of the .[4]
Wu's first acting experience came when he joined a troupe led by Chou Yi-chang.[5] Wu later became a member of,[6] and also worked as a choreographer for Flux Waves Dance Theater.[7] He performed leading roles in Golden Bough Theatre's She is So Lovely (2002) and All in One (2005).[8] [9]
Wu was twice awarded the Golden Bell Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film, in 2008 for Imprints Of Ceiba Flowers and 2019 for The Roar.[1] [10] He was named the best actor at the 2011 Taipei Film Awards for .[1] [10] Wu's performance in the film resulted in a Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2010.[11] He worked with director a second time in the 2012 film .[12] Wu was cast as Peng Feng in Lin Fu-ching's debut feature film, released later that year.[13] In 2016, Wu appeared in directed by .[14]
Wu's relatives found him unresponsive at home in Banqiao District on 24 May 2020.[15] After a forensic medical examination had been performed, Wu's agent confirmed that Wu had died, aged 55, of a stroke in the early morning of 25 May 2020.[16] [17]