1. BD Wong has done extensive voiceover work and stage acting.
22 Facts About BD Wong
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BD Wong voiced Captain Li Shang in the Disney animated film Mulan as well as its 2004 direct-to-video sequel, Mulan II, and the 2005 video game Kingdom Hearts II.
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Bradley Darryl Wong was born on October 24,1960, and raised in San Francisco, California, to Roberta Christine Wong, a telephone-company supervisor, and William D Wong, a postal worker.
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BD Wong has one older brother and one younger brother.
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BD Wong is of Chinese descent, with family from Hong Kong.
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BD Wong attended Lincoln High School, where he discovered his love of acting and starred as the lead in numerous school plays.
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BD Wong went on to attend San Francisco State University in the 1970s, where he was the only Asian American in the theater department, and there were no roles for him.
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BD Wong has since ceased the use of punctuation in his initials.
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BD Wong is notable as the only actor to be honored with the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Clarence Derwent Award, and Theatre World Award for the same role.
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BD Wong provided the voice of Captain Li Shang in Disney's Mulan, its direct-to-video sequel, and the video game Kingdom Hearts II.
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BD Wong returned to Broadway as Linus in a revival of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, alongside Anthony Rapp, Roger Bart, and Kristin Chenoweth, and the 2004 revival of Stephen Sondheim's Pacific Overtures.
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BD Wong narrated a public television documentary, "Maxine Hong Kingston: Talking Story" about the life and work of the ground-breaking Chinese American novelist.
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In 1990, BD Wong objected to Actor's Equity that the plan to use Welsh actor Jonathan Pryce in the role of The Engineer in the Broadway run of Miss Saigon, which Pryce had played since the beginning of the show's 10-year extended run in London, would take jobs away from actors of Asian descent.
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In 2008, BD Wong starred in the one-man show Herringbone, in which he portrayed 12 roles, at McCarter Theatre at Princeton University.
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BD Wong brought the show to the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego the following year.
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In 2012, BD Wong starred in Herringbone to benefit Dixon Place in New York for two performances.
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BD Wong guest-starred on NCIS: New Orleans Episode 1.13 titled "The Walking Dead", where he portrayed Navy Lieutenant Commander Dr Gabriel Lin.
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BD Wong played the enigmatic Whiterose, head of the hacker collective Dark Army, who lives a double life as Zhang, the Chinese Minister of State Security, on USA Network's Mr Robot.
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BD Wong was credited as a recurring role for the show's second season and promoted to main cast for the third season, which debuted October 11,2017.
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In 2022, BD Wong was featured in the book 50 Key Figures in Queer US Theatre, with a profile written by theatre scholar Esther Kim Lee.
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BD Wong was in a long-term relationship with talent agent Richie Jackson from 1988 to 2004.
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On October 7,2018, BD Wong married Richert John Frederickson Schnorr, his partner of 8 years, in Brooklyn, New York.