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Charis Vera Ng is a British Actress for Stage, Film and Television as well as a Singer-Songwriter.

She was born March 17th in Kent, Farnborough in the United Kingdom. Her ethnic heritage is made up of Peranakan-Chinese on her father's side, and Vietnamese-Chinese and Mongolian on her mother's side.

After her first TV appearance Kids Talk Back when she was 6, Charis Vera spent the rest of her childhood growing up in the Theatre industry in Asia. She landed her first lead role at 13, in a Musical Theatre piece called The Father's Hand. With the support of her mother, veteran actress Anne Law, she spent the rest of her teenage years balancing school, auditions and theatre/film related projects. She went on to study Acting for film in Hollywood in 2010 and in 2012, won a full scholarship at the prestigious Intercultural Theatre Institute in Singapore (formerly known as TTRP, founded and run by T. Sasitharan and the late Kuo Pao Kun). Here she underwent Asian Theatre Immersions such as Kuttiyatam (Traditional Indian Theatre) juxtaposed by Western systems developed by Anton Chekhov and Konstantin Stanisvlasky.

 Amongst others, she is best known for The Father's Hand (2004; Musical), Skins (2006; Play), Paperstars (2007 - Singapore Film Archives), Tadpoles (2012) by Director Ivan Tan which won an award at the Locarno Film Festival, What Do Men Want (2014) which picked up an Outstanding Directing award at the LA Web Series Festival as well as Perfect Girl (2014), now featured on Netflix and which went on to pick up several awards at the LA Web Series Festival 2015. She most recently starred in Wabi-Sabi (2015) opposite her own mother, a project she says was "long overdue".

 Charis Vera Ng launched Ms C's Little Blackbox in June 2013. Here she creates and runs applied Drama programs - using theatre to engage youths who are classified as At-Risk/ NEET (Not In Education or Employment), Special Education Needs as well as those in mental health recovery. She has spent 9 years as a Drama Educator in mainstream and special needs government schools, working closely with the National Arts Council to continuously shape the landscape of Arts Education in Asia to include communities on the fringes.

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#	Name	Score	Year	Known	★	Votes
1	Perfect Girl	3.25	2019	•	6.5	109
2	What Do Men Want?	3.09	2014	•	5.5	8
3	Missing Peace	1.63	2013	•	0.0	0

Charis Vera Ng

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