1. Benedict Wong was born on 3 July 1971 and is a British actor.
16 Facts About Benedict Wong
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Benedict Wong began his career on stage before starring in the film Dirty Pretty Things, which earned him a British Independent Film Award nomination, and the BBC sitcom 15 Storeys High.
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Benedict Wong has since starred in the Syfy series Deadly Class.
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Benedict Wong was born in Eccles, a town in the city of Salford, England, in 1971, the son of Hong Kong immigrant parents who had travelled through Ireland before settling in England.
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Benedict Wong was brought up in Salford and attended De La Salle Sixth Form College in the city, where he took a two-year performing arts course.
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Benedict Wong appeared as Errol Spears alongside Sean Lock in the situation comedy 15 Storeys High, and as Franklin Fu in the second series of Look Around You.
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In 2007, Benedict Wong starred in the feature film Grow Your Own.
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Benedict Wong appeared in the second episode of Series 4 of the Channel 4 comedy The IT Crowd as Prime, a previous Countdown contestant who had won the sixteenth Countdown teapot when he was known as Harold Tong.
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Benedict Wong appeared in the film Shanghai as Juso Kita, and played Li in the BBC series Spirit Warriors.
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In 2012, Benedict Wong appeared in the Ridley Scott film Prometheus as the ship's pilot, Ravel.
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Benedict Wong was nominated for the West End Frame Award for Best Dramatic Performance for his role in Chimerica.
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In 2014, Benedict Wong played Kublai Khan in the Netflix series Marco Polo, which on 7 January 2015 was renewed by Netflix for a 10-episode second series.
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Benedict Wong appeared in "Hated in the Nation", an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror, playing Shaun Li, an agent with the National Crime Agency in 2016.
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Benedict Wong appeared as the scientist Lomax in the 2018 science fiction horror film Annihilation.
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In 2021, Benedict Wong voiced the warrior giant Tong in the Disney animated film Raya and the Last Dragon.
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Benedict Wong joined the cast of the Netflix live action adaptation of the Chinese novel The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin, which began shooting later that year.