Adam Pak

Pak was born in 1981 or 1982 in Australia and is of Chinese descent,^[1] with his father being Mongolian and his mother being Shanghainese.^[2] Pak's parents migrated to Australia before he was born.^[3] Despite his background, he was not fluent in Chinese and had to learn the language from scratch after moving to Hong Kong.^[4] Pak described his childhood as "unfortunate" and experienced serious bullying while growing up in Australia.^[5] He later attended the University of New South Wales, where he studied arts and design and graduated with a Bachelor of Design.^[2] After graduation, Pak interned in Amsterdam, Netherlands, working in decorative lighting design for a year.^[1][2] He then returned to Australia and briefly worked as a designer before feeling disillusioned with the Western environment, which led him to Hong Kong on the recommendation of his father and uncle in 2011.^[1][4] Upon arriving in Hong Kong, he opened an art gallery near Lan Kwai Fong and also worked as a banking salesman.^[1] However, he struggled to make a living and eventually pursued a modeling career based on a friend's recommendation.^[1] He began filming advertisements and gained public recognition for appearing in a dowry cake commercial with actress Annie Liu.^[6] Soon after, he met filmmaker Raymond Wong at a banquet, and Wong signed him as an actor of his artist agency.^[2][4]

In 2016, Pak began his acting career with a minor role in the ViuTV romance series 3X1.^[7] He then gained recognition for his breakthrough role as Thompson Yau, a mole in a money laundering cartel within a bank, in the 2018 crime film L Storm,^[8][9] which earned him a nomination for Best New Performer in the 38th Hong Kong Film Awards.^[10] He also had a minor role in the action film Master Z: Ip Man Legacy in the same year,^[7] and reprised a different character, Wong Ka-on, in L Storm's 2019 sequel, P Storm.^[5] After filming P Storm, Pak took an acting course taught by Liu Kai-chi.^[5] He was featured in Raymond Wong's 2020 comedy film All's Well End's Well 2020 [zh],^[11] and landed a leading role as Shinichi Kitamura in the 2021 ViuTV drama series Ink at Tai Ping [zh], co-starring with Chrissie Chau.^[12] He played Mak Kin-tin, one of the four protagonists and cellmates attempting to break out of prison, alongside Patrick Tam, Louis Cheung, and Justin Cheung in the 2021 crime film Breakout Brothers, and reprised his role in the sequels Breakout Brothers 2 and Breakout Brothers 3 [zh] in 2022.^[13] In 2023, Pak starred in a lead role as Desmond Chung in the legal drama film A Guilty Conscience,^[14] which held the record as the highest-grossing domestic film in Hong Kong.^[15]