According to Hong Kong media, on the evening of February 2, Australian-Hong Kong actor Ho Kwok-wing was found to have committed suicide by burning charcoal at his home in a village house in Tai Au Mun Estate, Sai Kung. He was 58 years old. His wife died of illness a few months ago. In the late 1980s, Ha Guorong came to Hong Kong from Australia to develop. Because he loved Hong Kong's entertainment culture very much, he formed an indissoluble bond with Hong Kong. His real name was Gregory Charles Rivers. Because he loved Leslie Cheung, he changed his name to Gregory Charles Rivers.
He can speak fluent Cantonese and has appeared in about 300 TVB TV series such as "Forensic Records", "Criminal Investigation Files", "Up in the Sky", "Anytime", "The Deer and the Cauldron", and "Love Between a Boy and a Girl". He has played roles such as a foreign police officer and a senior executive of a multinational company in many Hong Kong dramas. He is known as the "TVB Queen Ghost Guy" and is deeply loved by the audience.
He Guorong left TVB in 2008 and became a Shaw Brothers artist in 2019. Last year, he announced that he had signed with a new agency.
It is reported that Ha Guorong once suffered from depression. His wife passed away last year, which made him very sad. Friends said that he committed suicide because he could not leave his beloved wife.