Elizabeth Sung

Director | Writer | Actress

Date of birth : 10/14/1954

Date of death : 05/22/2018

City of birth : Happy Valley, Hong Kong

Raised in Hong Kong, Elizabeth Sung is fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin. She holds a BFA in Dance from The Juilliard School and was a member of The Alvin Ailey Dance Company. Elizabeth studied acting with Sanford Meisner and Milton Katselas. She was in the Directing Workshop for Women at the American Film Institute where she made her first award winning film, Requiem (1995). Her graduate thesis film, The Water Ghost (1998), earned Elizabeth an MFA in directing from the AFI.