Karen Joy Morris (莫文蔚) better known as Karen Mok or Mok Man-wai, is a Hong Kong-based singer, actress, voice actress, composer, producer, and designer, with a career spanning three decades.
For Disney, she provided the Cantonese voice of Megara in the 1997 Disney animated feature film Hercules and Kida Nedakh in the 2001 Disney animated feature film Atlantis: The Lost Empire. She also played General Fang in Around the World in 80 Days.
Born as Karen Joy Morris in Hong Kong, she is of mixed ancestry: her mother is half Chinese, quarter German, and quarter Persian, while her father is half Welsh and half Chinese. Her grandfather was Alfred Morris, the first principal of King's College, Hong Kong. She speaks English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Italian, German, and French. Mok attended Diocesan Girls' School from primary to secondary grade in Hong Kong. When she was an F.4 student, she received the 1st Hong Kong Outstanding Students Awards. In 1987, she won a scholarship for the United World College of the Adriatic in Duino (Trieste, Italy) from which she graduated in 1989 with the International Baccalaureate. She subsequently studied Italian Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London.