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Xuan Ong (born Ong Yi Xuan on 5 March 1996) is a Singaporean actress.

Early life and career

Ong started out as a theatre student at the age of 13, and graduated from LASALLE College of the Arts with first class honours in Acting when she was 22 in 2018. She has since appeared in multiple shorts and stage productions, and has also been cast in MediaCorp's Channel 5 and Channel 8's drama series.

In 2021, Ong starred as Lee Mui Ee, the lead role in the coming-of-age drama Teenage Textbook: The Series, which was based on the popular Singaporean novel of the same name. This was her debut television series.

In 2023, Ong played a prominent role in Seven Days, also her debut feature film appearance. It was the first local film to be chosen to open the Singapore Chinese Film Festival. The same year, she played a spirit medium in the second season of the drama series Titoudao, a character based on a real-life person.

Filmography

Television series

• Teenage Textbook: The Series (2021)
• Soul Detective (2022)
• Mr Zhou's Ghost Stories@Job Haunting II (2022)
• Titoudao: Dawn of a New Stage (2023)
• Cash on Delivery (2023)
• Stranger In The Dark (2023)

Web series

• One Take (2019; web series)
• #CoffeeShots (2020)
• Adulting (2021)

Film

• A Waking (2019; short)
• If They Can't Be Loved (2021; short)
• Trade Secrets (2021; short)
• Yi Tian (2021; short)
• Seven Days (2023)

Theatre

• The Insiders (2018)
• The Cat in the Hat (2018)
• Birth Days (2018)
• Stupid Cupid (2019)
• Now She Lives (2019)
• Catalysts (2019)
• The Adventures of Abhijeet (2019)
• The Hawker (2019)
• Fika and Fishy (2020)
• The Singapore Trilogy (2021)
• A Dream Under The Southernbough- Existence (2021)
• I Have Something to Say (2022)

Awards and nominations

References

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12. ^ "Now She Lives". Arts Republic | Arts Events Singapore. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
13. "A Waking, Kingdom, A Dance for Ren Hang, and the Implausibilities of Intimacy". Asian Film Archive. 20 September 2019. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
14. "The Insiders". Peatix. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
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17. "The Hawker". ROTOTORO. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
18. "'Eavesdrop' and experience the immersive display of 'The Hawker'". The Fandom Menace. 6 November 2019. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
19. Nurjuwita, Dewi. "Robert Yeo's landmark trilogy is streaming online till August 31". Time Out Singapore. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
20. "March On 2022". Esplanade. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
21. "Oniros Film Awards - FINALISTS & WINNERS - NOVEMBER 2022" (PDF). Oniros Film Awards. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
22. "Red Movie Awards Autumn Edition 2022". Red Movie Awards. Retrieved 20 May 2023.

External links

• Xuan Ong at IMDb
• Xuan Ong on Instagram
• Xuan Ong on TikTok

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