Personal and Present Family Life
Hong currently lives in Los Angeles with wife Susan (née Tong), whom he married in 1977, and is planning to produce and direct his own films. Their daughter, April Hong is also a well known former child actress, and also now a respected film and TV actress with numerous appearances on such shows as ABC-TV's General Hospital, China Beach, "Numb3rs", and most recently Desperate Housewives, FOX's "90210", NBC-TV's "ER", and as a voice over actress her most recent credits include voices in the TV series Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness,the animated feature Kung Fu Panda 2, World of Warcraft, and the interactive video game Sleeping Dogs where she also did performance capture for a variety of the game characters. James and April regularly conduct acting workshop classes at the Hong Acting Workshop in Beverly Hills, California. Hong was formerly married to actress Pearl Huang from 1967 to 1973.
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