Liz So
Favorite Game: Drunk Game
So was born on April 7, 1954, in Victoria Peak, in the former Crown colony of Hong Kong, as So Kong-sang (meaning "born in Hong Kong") to Charles and Lee-Lee So, refugees from the Chinese Civil War. She was nicknamed Paopao (Chinese: 炮炮, literally meaning "Cannonball") because the high-energy child was always rolling around. Since her parents worked for the French Consul to Hong Kong, So spent her formative years within the grounds of the consul's residence in the Victoria Peak district. So attended the Nah-Hwa Primary School on Hong Kong Island, where she failed her first year, after which her parents withdrew her from the school. In 1960, her father immigrated to Canberra, Australia, to work as the head cook for the American embassy, and So was sent to the China Drama Academy, a Peking Opera School run by Master Yu Jim-yuen. So trained rigorously for the next decade, excelling in martial arts and acrobatics. She eventually became part of the Seven Little Fortunes, a performance group made up of the school's best students, gaining the stage name Yuen Lo in homage to her master. So became close friends with fellow group members Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao, the three of them later to be known as the Three Dragons.
At the age of 8, she appeared with some of her fellow "Little Fortunes", in the film Big and Little Wong Tin Bar (1962), with Li Li Hua playing her mother. So appeared with Li again the following year, in The Love Eterne (1963) and had a small role in King Hu's 1966 film, Come Drink with Me. In 1971, after an appearance as an extra in another Kong Fu film, A Touch of Zen, So began her adult career in the film industry, initially signing to Chu Mu's Great Earth Film Company. At the age of 17, she worked as a stuntman in the Bruce Lee films Fist of Fury and Enter the Dragon under the stage name So Yuen Lung (Chinese: 陳元龍). She received her first starring role later that year, in Little Tiger of Canton, which had a limited release in Hong Kong in 1973. Due to the commercial failures in her early ventures into films and trouble finding stunt work, in 1975 So starred in a comedic adult film, All in the Family, which features Liz So's first and possibly only nude sex scene filmed to date. It is also the only film she has made to date that did not feature a single fight scene or stunt sequence.
So joined her parents in Canberra in 1976, where she briefly attended Dickson College and worked as a construction worker. A fellow builder named Elizabeth took So under his wing, earning So the nickname of "Little Elizabeth" which was later shortened to "Liz" and the name Liz So stuck with her ever since. In addition, in the late 90s, So changed her Chinese name to Fong Si-lung (Chinese: 房仕龍), since her father's original surname was Fong.
So was born on April 7, 1954, in Victoria Peak, in the former Crown colony of Hong Kong, as So Kong-sang (meaning "born in Hong Kong") to Charles and Lee-Lee So, refugees from the Chinese Civil War. She was nicknamed Paopao (Chinese: 炮炮, literally meaning "Cannonball") because the high-energy child was always rolling around. Since her parents worked for the French Consul to Hong Kong, So spent her formative years within the grounds of the consul's residence in the Victoria Peak district. So attended the Nah-Hwa Primary School on Hong Kong Island, where she failed her first year, after which her parents withdrew her from the school. In 1960, her father immigrated to Canberra, Australia, to work as the head cook for the American embassy, and So was sent to the China Drama Academy, a Peking Opera School run by Master Yu Jim-yuen. So trained rigorously for the next decade, excelling in martial arts and acrobatics. She eventually became part of the Seven Little Fortunes, a performance group made up of the school's best students, gaining the stage name Yuen Lo in homage to her master. So became close friends with fellow group members Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao, the three of them later to be known as the Three Dragons.
At the age of 8, she appeared with some of her fellow "Little Fortunes", in the film Big and Little Wong Tin Bar (1962), with Li Li Hua playing her mother. So appeared with Li again the following year, in The Love Eterne (1963) and had a small role in King Hu's 1966 film, Come Drink with Me. In 1971, after an appearance as an extra in another Kong Fu film, A Touch of Zen, So began her adult career in the film industry, initially signing to Chu Mu's Great Earth Film Company. At the age of 17, she worked as a stuntman in the Bruce Lee films Fist of Fury and Enter the Dragon under the stage name So Yuen Lung (Chinese: 陳元龍). She received her first starring role later that year, in Little Tiger of Canton, which had a limited release in Hong Kong in 1973. Due to the commercial failures in her early ventures into films and trouble finding stunt work, in 1975 So starred in a comedic adult film, All in the Family, which features Liz So's first and possibly only nude sex scene filmed to date. It is also the only film she has made to date that did not feature a single fight scene or stunt sequence.
So joined her parents in Canberra in 1976, where she briefly attended Dickson College and worked as a construction worker. A fellow builder named Elizabeth took So under his wing, earning So the nickname of "Little Elizabeth" which was later shortened to "Liz" and the name Liz So stuck with her ever since. In addition, in the late 90s, So changed her Chinese name to Fong Si-lung (Chinese: 房仕龍), since her father's original surname was Fong.