Benedict Wong

Benedict Wong Biography

Benedict Wong (born 1970) is a British actor and comedian.

Early life

Wong was born in Manchester, Lancashire, of Chinese descent. He attended school in Salford, Lancashire.

Career

His first role was in a 1993 BBC Radio play called Kai Mei Sauce, written by Kevin Wong. He appeared alongside Sean Lock in the situation comedy 15 Storeys High, and as Dr. Franklin Fu in the second series of Look Around You.

In 2007, Wong starred in the feature film Grow Your Own.

Wong went on to appear in the second episode of Series 4 of the Channel 4 comedy The IT Crowd, playing the character Prime, a previous Countdown contestant who had won the sixteenth Countdown teapot when he was known as Harold Tong. Wong also appeared in the movie Shanghai playing the character Juso Kita and the BBC series Spirit Warriors in the role of Li.

In 2012, Wong appeared in the highly anticipated film Prometheus.

In 2013, it was announced that Wong had been cast in the lead role of #aww: The Arrest of Ai WeiWei at the Hampstead Theatre. Shortly after, the Almeida Theatre announced that Wong had joined the cast of new play Chimerica.

Awards

In 2003, Wong was nominated at the British Independent Film Awards for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Guo Yi in Dirty Pretty Things.

Career

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994	Frank Stubbs Promotes	Lee	Episode: "Chinatown"
1995	Cardiac Arrest	Radiographer	Episode: "Shallow End"
1995	Night Watch	Guard
1996	Pie in the Sky	Michael Cheung	Episode: "Chinese Whispers"
1996	Cracker	Peter Yang	Episode: "White Ghost"
1997	Supply & Demand	Frankie Li
1997	Breakout	Jerry
2000	Arabian Nights	Hassan	Miniseries
2002	The Bill	DS David Chiu	Episodes: 052, 053, 054, 056, 057
	15 Storeys High	Errol
	TLC	Terry
	Look Around You	Chess/draughts player	Episode: "The Brain"
2003	State of Play	Pete Cheng	Episode: No.1.1
2005	Look Around You	Dr Franklin Fu	Episode: "Health"
2006	Eleventh Hour	Danny	Episode: "Containment"
2008	The Peter Serafinowicz Show	Various characters
2009	Spirit Warriors	Li
2010	The IT Crowd	Prime	Episode: "The Final Countdown"
	Spooks	Kai	Episode: 4
	Law and Order: UK	Eli Smart	Episode: "ID"
2011	Covert Affairs	Shen Yue	Episode: "World Leader Pretend"
2011	Top Boy	Vincent
2012	Top Boy Season 2	Vincent
2013	The Wrong Mans	Lau

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang)	Pat Proudence
2001	Wit	Fellow 2
	Spy Game	Tran
	Double Happiness	Dan
2002	Dirty Pretty Things	Guo Yi
2003	Code 46	Medic
2005	On a Clear Day	Chan
2005	A Cock and Bull Story	Ed
2007	Sunshine	Trey
	Grow Your Own	Kung Sang
	Frankenstein	Ed Gore	TV film
2008	Largo Winch	William Kwan
2009	Moon	Thompson
2009	My Dad the Communist	Dad
2010	Shanghai 2010	Juso Kita
2011	The Lady	Karma Phuntsho
2011	Johnny English Reborn	Chi Han Ly
2012	Prometheus	Ravel
2012	Painkiller (short film)	Jay
2013	Hummingbird	Mr Choy
2013	Kick-Ass 2	Mr. Kim

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2009	The Pillowman	.	Leicester's Curve theatre
2012	The Sugar-Coated Bullets of the Bourgeoisie	Shen	Performed at the Finborough Theatre
2012	Hamlet	Laertes	Performed at the Young Vic
2013	#aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei	Ai Weiwei	Performed at the Hampstead Theatre
2013	Chimerica	Zhang Lin	Performed at the Almeida Theatre

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