Leslie Fong

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FONG, Leslie. (19*-) Actor. *


Personalities:

Biography

Training

Career

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

His first professional work was for the Market Theatre in Joanie Galant. He worked with luminaries such as Leonard Schach in After the Fall and Royal Hunt of the Sun, Robert Mohr in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Louis van Niekerk in Die Krismis van Map Jacobs (PACT, 1982). He played leads in Fourie’s Die Koggelaar (198*), *, Faustus in Africa (1995) by William Kentridge and the Handspring Puppet Company. * He played Winston in The Island (1983).

He has worked unselfishly in amateur theatre toward a company like SATO.

Played Slu in Isidingo on television.

Awards, etc

He was nominated for the DALRO Best Actor Award for his role in Die Krismis van Map Jacobs.

Sources

The Island (SATO production) theatre programme, 1983.

Faustus in Africa theatre programme, 1995.


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