Mak Ling-ling

Mak Ling-ling is one of the best known fortune tellers in the city. Besides her day job as a feng shui consultant and penning a yearly bestselling feng shui almanac, she’s also active in showbiz, having guest-starred in films, appeared on TV and even provided vocals for a hip-hop track. She tells Isabelle Hon about her lack of on-screen romances and gives her predictions for the Year of the Goat.

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Published: 4:00pm, 19 Feb 2015Updated: 4:33pm, 19 Oct 2016

I started learning feng shui in 1987. I graduated from college in 1992 and was a clerk in a law firm, fortune telling part-time. I became a full-time feng shui master in 1996.

My clients are usually important, from the international architectural firms and investment banks.

I am a feng shui consultant and a TVB artist. At the beginning I hosted a feng shui show, later took part in some movies, and I recently tried my first attempt at a soap opera.

So far I have been in more than 10 movies. While other people have different characters, my role is always me: Mak Ling-ling, or some well-off wife.

Last September, the director of [TVB detective drama] “Officer Geomancer” asked me to provide a feng shui opinion of his drama. I said, “Can I get a role?” So I got the role of Editor-in-Chief of a magazine. But sadly there’s no romance plot in my script—why?

I rarely have romance plots in my roles. In “Man Suddenly In Love” (2011) I finally had Chapman To as my husband. Can I have more romances with handsome actors in the future?

I am not the pretty type: there is a very limited role for me on the screen. That’s why I always take part in comedies.