| Tong Bing Yu | |||||
| Native Name: | 童缤毓 | ||||
| Birth Date: | 14 June 1983 | ||||
| Birth Place: | Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | ||||
| Nationality: | Malaysian | ||||
| Occupation: | Actress, singer, host | ||||
| Education: | UCSI University Music Programmes | ||||
| Works: | Welcome Home, My Love The Adjusters I&II<br />A Time to Embrace The Family Court Justice in the City Mightiest Mother-in-Law Utopia A Stolen Life The Ferryman: Legends of Nanyang: Fox God | ||||
| Years Active: | 2008-present | ||||
| Agent: | Mediacorp (contract ended) | ||||
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Tong Bing Yu (formerly known as Chris Tong; ; born on 14 June 1983) is a Malaysian actress, host, singer, and producer.
In 2014, Tong Bing Yu was awarded one of Malaysia's Top Ten Outstanding Youth.[1] She is a long-term sponsor of "Ali De Speranza", a World Vision 30-Hour Famine D.I.Y Camp.
In 2006, Tong won title of Miss Malaysia Chinese Cosmos International, along with two subsidiary titles, Miss Personality and Miss Perfect Skin. She later represented Malaysia in Switzerland and China, where she received the Miss Culture Personality Award.
In 2007, she founded the Yumiao Love Charity Foundation, encouraging pageant candidates to engage in charitable activities.
She landed her first TV hosting role in a China-Malaysia Jiangsu TV Travelogue, Go Go Travel. The show introduced places of interest and food of both China and Malaysia. Her co-hosts were Taiwanese host Chen Hong, Shining Star Performing Arts Training Center student Allan Kew, and TV anchor Huang Jing of China Jiangsu Broadcasting Corporation.[2]
In 2008, she participated in her first TV series, My Destiny, marking the beginning of her acting career. The following year, she secured her first leading role in The Adjusters.
In 2009, she began serving as an emcee for Hai-O and Sin Chew Daily’s co-organized charity event "Ai Hua Jiao". She continued in this role for 10 years until the event was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[3]
In 2010, Tong got her first leading role in Singapore in the TV series The Family Court. The role got her nominated in the 17th Star Awards Ceremony in Singapore, along with Tay Ping Hui in the Favourite Onscreen Couple (Drama) category. Also in 2010, she co-hosted Dream Potters with Singapore artiste Lee Teng, and was nominated for Favourite Onscreen Partners (Variety) at the 17th Star Awards Ceremony in 2011.
In 2012, she was nominated for Best Actress and Most Popular Actress at the second Golden Awards in Malaysia through the TV series A Time to Embrace.
In 2014, she got her first Best Actress nomination through the role of Bai Mingzhu (TV Series,) at the 20th Star Awards Ceremony and won her first award - Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes in Singapore. The same year, she won the Top 5 Most Popular Actress at the third Golden Awards in Malaysia, making Tong the only winner of both popularity awards among female artiste in Singapore and Malaysia.[4]
Furthermore, she was also selected as one of Malaysia's Top Ten Outstanding Youth, and the winner of Outstanding Female Artiste of McMillan Woods Global Awards in 2014.[5]
In 2017, she performed as "mistress" in the Mightiest Mother-in-Law.[6]
Tong was also involved in theatre performances in 2015 and participated in the famous stage play Malaysian version, playing the role of Feng Ping. In 2011, she also made a cameo in the stage play of The Legends of Lai Meng. In the same year, she got two movie roles. The Wedding Diary, which gave her the opportunity to act alongside local artiste Ah Niu and Hong Kong actress Elanne Kong. Also, she participated in the movie Petaling Street Warriors with Mark Lee and Yeo Yann Yann.
Later, she participated in the China web movie League of Legend, playing the role of LeBlanc, acting with Elanne Kong, Tony Ahn and Collin Chou; she then officially announced she will gradually shift her focus to China, becoming one of the artiste of Beijing Happywoods TV under Hunan Television.
In 2015, Tong was the administrative producer for the Hong Kong movie Undercover: Punch and Gun.
In 2016, became producer of Hunan Broadcasting System and Malaysia Mon Space Media Entertainment co-produced China web drama Utopia,[7] while acting in it too.[8]
In 2018, she starred in a China-Malaysia film, and sang the movie's theme song A Stolen Life. This won her Breakthrough Performing Actress in the 2018 14th Chinese American Film Festival[9] and was awarded Best Lead Actress in the 2020 Melbourne Indie Film Festival, which is also her first "Best Actress" win.[10]
In 2019, Tong founded Marvelous Culture & Film, based in Malaysia. She started collaborations with China as the producer of Beyond Life and Death. In the past six years, she led her company's strategic transformation to achieve growth through cooperation with China.[11]
| 2009 | Romantic Delicacies | Honey | |||
| 稽查專用 | Annie 洛安妮 | [12] [13] | |||
| Welcome Home, My Love | Zhang Wanqin 张婉琴 | ||||
| My Destiny | Bai Suzhen 白素真 | ||||
| 2010 | Injustice | Zhao Yutian 赵语恬 | |||
| 声空感应2 | |||||
| Glowing Embers | Xuan Hui 玄蕙 | ||||
| The Glittering Days | Bo Li | ||||
| The Family Court | Huang Shuya 黄舒雅 | ||||
| 2011 | Code of Honour | Long Wanyi 龙婉怡 | [14] | ||
| C.L.I.F. | Zhang Cenglin 张岑琳 | ||||
| 2012 | Justice in the City | Zhuo Huiqi 卓惠棋 | |||
| Game Plan | Guo Keli 郭可丽 | ||||
| 2013 | Bai Mingzhu 白明珠 | [15] | |||
| 96 °C Café 96 °C 咖啡 | Xu Ruolin 徐若琳 | ||||
| 2014 | Bai Mingzhu 白明珠 | [16] | |||
| The Caregivers | Fang Yiting 方仪婷 | ||||
| 2015 | Good Luck | Lin Shihui 林世慧 | |||
| 2016 | Peace & Prosperity | Huang Zishan 黄子珊 | |||
| Beyond Words | Liang Lening 梁乐宁 | ||||
| House of Fortune | Luo Shuping 罗舒萍 | [17] | |||
| 2017 | Life Less Ordinary | Zhou Ke'en 周可恩 | |||
| Mightiest Mother-in-Law | |||||
| 2018 | Gifted | Su Lingli 苏伶俐 | [18] | ||
| 2019 | Heavenly Sword and Dragon Slaying Sabre | Bright Moon Messenger 辉月使 | Cameo | [19] | |
| One Boat, One World 海洋之城 | |||||
| 2021 | The Ferryman: Legends of Nanyang 灵魂摆渡·南洋传说 | Bai Xue Ying 白晓雪 | [20] |
| 2011 | Petaling Street Warriors | Xiao Ju 小菊 | [21] | |
| 2012 | The Golden Couple 金童玉女 | [22] | ||
| The Wedding Diary | Pat | |||
| The Golden Couple 金童玉女 | Miss Woo | |||
| 2013 | Kick Ass Girls 爆3俏嬌娃 | Zhu Ge 诸葛 | [23] | |
| 2014 | League of Legend 王者联盟 | LeBlanc 乐芙兰 | Web movie | |
| 2015 | 冷月刀 | Chang Qiuyan 常秋嫣 | [24] | |
| 2016 | Special Female Force | Iris | [25] | |
| The Guest 不速之客 | Liu Wen 刘雯 | [26] | ||
| 2018 | A Stolen Life 双生 | Chen Ji/Chen Mo 陈寂/陈默 | ||
| 2019 | Supermum | Cameo | [27] | |
| TBD | 枪口下 | Yi Xiao Ling 易小玲 | Filming | |
| JanGo | Cody | Post-production | [28] |
| 2011 | The Legends of Lai Meng 杜鹃花的黎明 | [29] | |||
| 2015 | I Have a Date with Spring | Musical, Malaysia leg of tour |
| Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Top 10 Fashion Icon | |||||
| 2011 | Star Awards | Favourite Onscreen Couple (Drama) | The Family Court | |||
| Favourite Onscreen Partners (Variety) | Dream Potters | |||||
| 2012 | Golden Awards | Most Popular Actress | [30] | |||
| Best Actress | A Time to Embrace | |||||
| 2014 | Golden Awards | Most Popular Actress (Top 5) | ||||
| Best Actress | Mining Magnate | |||||
| McMillan Woods Global Awards | Outstanding Female Artiste | |||||
| Star Awards | Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes | [31] | ||||
| Star Awards for Most Popular Regional Artiste (Malaysia) | ||||||
| Best Actress | ||||||
| Junior Chamber International Malaysia | Malaysia's Top Ten Outstanding Youth | |||||
| 2015 | Asia Model Awards | Outstanding Female Artiste of the Year | Asian Model Star Awards | [32] | ||
| Star Awards | Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes | |||||
| Most Popular Regional Artiste (Malaysia) | ||||||
| 2016 | Star Awards | Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes | ||||
| 2017 | Star Awards | Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes | ||||
| 2018 | Chinese American Film Festival | Breakthrough Performing Actress | A Stolen Life | |||
| 2019 | ASEAN Outstanding Business Award | ASEAN Top Social Media Influencer Award | ||||
| 2020 | Melbourne Indie Film Festival | Best Lead Actress | A Stolen Life | |||
| 2021 | Malaysia Fashion, Modeling & Pageant Awards | People's Choice Award – Outstanding Actress of the Year | [33] |