Christina Chong Biography

Christina Chong is an English actress who has appeared in TV series including Monroe Line of Duty Halo: Nightfall and 24: Live Another Day. In July 2014 she was cast in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Chong was born in Enfield as the daughter of a Chinese chef and an English mother and first raised together with her five siblings in Broxbourne (Hertfordshire) north of London. Later after the separation of her parents she moved with her mother and siblings to Longridge (Lancashire) her mother's hometown. According to her own recollection she and her siblings were the only mixed race kids in the local school there. Chong started dancing at the age of four and attended the Sutcliffe School of Dance in Longridge. At age 14 she gained a place at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London graduating five years later. After graduation she got a role in Elton John's musical Aida being performed in Berlin. However an injury cut short her career in musical theater and she turned to acting training at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York for 18 months. After her return to London she initially had difficulties finding work as an actor landing only in a few small supporting roles and commercials. To support herself she gave acting lessons at schools and held a part-ownership of her father's Chinese restaurant in Harpenden.

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