Mason Fung

Mason Fung Ho-yeung is a Hong Kong actor born in 2004. He trained in Choy Li Fut martial arts with his grandfather from an early age and began acting classes at the age of thirteen. He attended Baptist Lui Ming Choi Secondary School and left during Form 5 to work as an actor full time. He made his screen debut as a child performer in the sports film We Are Legends, playing the younger version of a character portrayed by Edward Ma, and also appeared in advertisements and music videos. At fifteen he played the young So Wa-wai in the 2021 biographical film Zero to Hero, a role that brought him the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting Actor at the fortieth ceremony in 2022, along with a Best New Performer nomination. He went on to appear in A Murder Erased, the television series Forensic Heroes VI: Redemption, the TVB series The Taste of Us as Leung Leung, and the film The Prosecutor.

Before his first feature he went through a training academy for young performers and built up screen time in short form work, appearing in Hong Kong government promotional videos and in children's programmes on ViuTV. He came to Zero to Hero (媽媽的神奇小子) with no feature film acting experience at all, and was fourteen years old during the shoot.

He played the teenage version of the athlete So Wa Wai in Zero to Hero (媽媽的神奇小子, 2021) with no prior acting experience, and by his own production's account leaned heavily on his senior co-stars to get into the part. Sandra Ng (吳君如) took him out for hamburgers and chips and talked him through the emotional scenes, and Louis Cheung (張繼聰) demonstrated how to play a scene and explained the bond between the character and his mother.