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Wayne Song

BIOGRAPHY

He was already directing an award-winning short film in high school, so the acting career of Wayne Song, a Taichung native and drama graduate of the National Taiwan University of Arts, had a head start. While at Taichung Municipal Second Senior High School he directed a short film that took a high school group award at the eighth Acer Digital Creation Microfilm Competition. He joined a talent agency in 2015 and completed an eighteen month actor development programme before taking early roles in Swimming Battle, Campus Heroes, Age of Rebellion and Iron Ladies. In 2018 he was nominated for Best New Performer at the 53rd Golden Bell Awards. He played Xiang Hao Ting in the 2019 boys love series HIStory3: Make Our Days Count, opposite Huang Chun Chih. Subsequent work includes The Making of an Ordinary Woman, Fly the Jumper, The Iron Four, Kiseki: Dear to Me, A Second Chance of Life and The Bliss. In 2025 he was nominated for Best Leading Actor at the 60th Golden Bell Awards. He now writes his name as 宋偉恩.

By 2025 interviewers described him as ten years into his career. His first Golden Bell recognition came in 2018 for 翻牆的記憶.

For Blood: Ten Lives (血.拾人生) he played Zhu Yi, a character built on a real person. He has said the work changed how he sees performance and left him wanting to speak up on social issues.

In his own words. "I found out later that it is not performing that I love. What I love is drama itself." (Interview with the Public Television Service magazine Drama Go (劇夠), published 14 October 2025.) "Now I feel what I should be doing is serving the character and the script. I used to think about how to act it and how to score points. Later I realised that whether people like it and whether you score is not my business. What you serve is the character and the script." (Interview with udn Stars (噓星聞) around the 60th Golden Bell Awards, 14 October 2025.) "It was the first time I noticed I had not come out of a character. I thought I had finished for the day, but in fact I had not. I never imagined a role could reach that deep into me." (Interview with udn Stars (噓星聞), 14 October 2025, on playing Zhu Yi in Blood: Ten Lives (血.拾人生).) "It is only in the past year or two that I realised I had rarely gone that close to a character before." (Interview series 感性出走 published by styletc, on how his approach to character changed.) "The family really does not like to talk about Zhu Yi." (Interview with ETtoday Star, 22 September 2025, on researching the real person behind his role in Blood: Ten Lives (血.拾人生).)

Xiang Hao Ting and His Classmate Co-Star

In HIStory3: Make Our Days Count in 2019, Wayne Song played Xiang Hao Ting, with Huang Chun Chih as Yu Xi Gu, and the two actors were already classmates before the cameras rolled, which the production pointed to as one reason their rapport read so clearly on screen. They kept the partnership going too, sharing the screen again in Plus & Minus and Kiseki: Dear to Me. Two actors with real shared history.

Golden Bell, Twice

The industry noticed early. He was nominated for Best New Performer at the 53rd Golden Bell Awards in 2018, before his BL turn, and then for Best Leading Actor at the 60th Golden Bell Awards in 2025 for Blood: Ten Lives, where he played Zhu Yi, a character built on a real person. In September 2025 he also took the Best Actor gold award in the television category at the sixth Asia Contents Awards. In his words, he has moved from thinking about scoring points to serving the character and the script.

The Director Inside the Actor

Before acting, he directed: his high school short film won a group award at the eighth Acer Digital Creation Microfilm Competition, and he still says he means to move behind the camera eventually. Plus one very wholesome story: he gave up his plane seat so two Japanese passengers could sit together, and they later tracked him down with dorayaki and a thank you note.

Wayne Song Watch Order

Start with HIStory3: Make Our Days Count for him and Huang Chun Chih, follow with Kiseki: Dear to Me for round two, and save Blood: Ten Lives for his award-nominated lead.

PROFILE DETAILS

Native Name
宋偉恩
Former / Birth Name
宋緯恩
Born
(Age 31)
Birthplace
Taichung, Taiwan
Gender
Male
Western Zodiac
Sagittarius ♐
Profession
Nationality
Debut
2016 · Swimming Battle (2016)
Agency / Label
Liang Tang Culture and Creative
Years Active
2016 to present
Languages
Mandarin
Skills
Acting, Directing

PERSONAL LIFE

Hobbies
travelling alone, watching films, making films
Personality
self critical, perfectionist, sensitive, reflective

FUN FACTS

  • He has worked several times with his HIStory3 co-star Huang Chun Chih, including on Plus & Minus and Kiseki: Dear to Me.
  • He gave up his aeroplane seat so that two Japanese passengers seated apart could sit together, and the story drew over two million views on Japanese social media.
  • The two passengers tracked him down at the station afterwards to hand him dorayaki and a thank you note.

TRIVIA

  • He spent a period of short term study in Kyoto.
  • In 2025 he made seven trips, five of them alone, which he describes as a real personal breakthrough for someone who used to avoid travelling solo.
  • In September 2025 he won the Best Actor gold award in the television programme category at the sixth Asia Contents Awards.
  • In September 2020 he was one of the HIStory3 cast members who sent Wilson Liu red underwear for luck ahead of the 55th Golden Bell Awards.
  • He has said his goal in performance is to reach a state where it feels as though nobody is watching and nobody is filming.
  • HIStory3: Make Our Days Count (那一天) was the second unit of HIStory3, directed by Tsai Mi Chieh (蔡宓潔).
  • He worked alongside Huang Chun Chih (黃雋智), Wilson Liu (劉韋辰) and Thomas Chang (張瀚元) on that series. He and Huang Chun Chih were already classmates before shooting, which the production cited as a reason their rapport read on screen.

DREAMS & ASPIRATIONS

He wants to direct. He has said his eventual goal is to combine performing with film making, and that he is concentrating on acting first for the security it gives him.

NOTABLE AWARDS

2018, 53rd Golden Bell Awards, Best New Performer in a Television Series, Nominated
2025, 60th Golden Bell Awards, Best Leading Actor in a Television Series, Nominated
2025, 6th Asian Film and Television Content Awards, Best Actor in a Television Programme (Gold), Won
2026, New York Festivals TV and Film Awards, Male Actor Performance, Nominated
2018, Golden Bell Awards, newcomer category, 翻牆的記憶, Nominated
2025, 60th Golden Bell Awards, Leading Actor in a Television Series, 血.拾人生 (Blood: Ten Lives), Nominated
2025, 6th Asia Contents Awards, Best Actor in a Television Programme, Gold Award, Won

EDUCATION

National Taiwan University of Arts, Department of Drama

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What did Wayne Song do before he acted?

He directed. At Taichung Municipal Second Senior High School he made a short film that took a high school group award at the eighth Acer Digital Creation Microfilm Competition, and his interest in film making came before any interest in performing. He still says he means to move behind the camera eventually.

When were his two Golden Bell nominations?

The first came in 2018, in a newcomer category, for 翻牆的記憶. The second came in 2025, for Best Leading Actor, for 血.拾人生, by which time interviewers were describing him as ten years into his career.

What made playing Zhu Yi different?

The character was built on a real person, and the real family found the subject hard to talk about. He has said it was the first role that stayed with him after a shooting day had ended.

How has his idea of the job changed?

He moved from thinking about how to score points to serving the character and the script, because whether people like it is not his business.

Why does his name appear in two written forms?

He changed it. His Chinese name was written 宋緯恩 and he now writes it 宋偉恩.

What happened on the aeroplane?

He gave up his seat so that two Japanese passengers seated apart could sit together. The story drew over two million views on Japanese social media, and the passengers tracked him down at the station afterwards to hand him dorayaki and a thank you note.

What does he count as a personal breakthrough?

Travelling alone. In 2025 he made seven trips, five of them by himself, which he describes as a real breakthrough for someone who used to avoid solo travel. He has also spent a period of short term study in Kyoto.

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