1. Garrett Richard Wang is an American actor best known for his role of Ensign Harry Kim in Star Trek: Voyager.
17 Facts About Garrett Wang
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Garrett Wang attended kindergarten in Indiana before moving to Bermuda, then to Memphis, Tennessee, and then back to California.
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Garrett Wang's father emigrated from Taiwan to attend graduate school in the States and did not view acting as a stable career choice.
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Garrett Wang's mother was accepted to the Taiwan School of Drama in her youth, but did not attend it due to her father's objections.
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Garrett Wang attended college at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Garrett Wang switched majors multiple times, going from biology to political science to history to economics and finally Asian studies, with all his upper-division electives in theater.
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When Garrett Wang decided to become a full-time actor, he made a deal with his parents that, if he was not successful within two years, he would quit, on the condition that they helped finance his expenses.
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Garrett Wang starred in Eric Koyanagi's MFA thesis film at USC film school, Angry Cafe.
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Garrett Wang subsequently came back to star in Koyanagi's feature directorial debut, hundred percent, which was Wang's feature debut.
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In 2005, Garrett Wang played Chow Ping in the TV miniseries Into The West, which was executive produced by Steven Spielberg.
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In 1993, while a student at UCLA, Garrett Wang portrayed John Lee, a gay British Chinese teenager who kills his Irish lover, in Chay Yew's play, Porcelain, at the now defunct Burbage Theater in Sawtelle, Los Angeles.
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From early childhood on, actor Garrett Wang was a science-fiction fan, in particular of Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica.
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Garrett Wang watched all the Star Trek films that came out in the theaters, but didn't follow Star Trek: The Next Generation prior to working on Voyager.
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At Star Trek Las Vegas in 2014, Garrett Wang was announced to be reprising his role as Harry Kim in "Delta Rising", the second expansion of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game, Star Trek Online.
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Garrett Wang has been a celebrity moderator interviewing other celebrities at various conventions around the world since 2008.
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Garrett Wang has participated in the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo, in 2012 interviewing Stan Lee and being present at a booth among other exhibitors, and as a surprise speaker at TNG Exposed.
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Garrett Wang discussed his post-Star Trek work as a convention moderator, and other anecdotes of his life.