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Ali Wong
Alexandra Dawn Wong (born April 19, 1982) is an American comedian and actress. Her accolades include two Primetime Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She was named one of Time's 100 most influential people in 2020 and 2023.
She is best known for her Netflix stand-up specials Baby Cobra (2016), Hard Knock Wife (2018), Don Wong (2022), and Single Lady (2024). The last of these won her a Golden Globe Award. She won another Golden Globe and two Primetime Emmy Awards for her starring role in the Netflix dark comedy series Beef (2023), becoming the first Asian background woman to win a lead acting Emmy in a Limited Series or Movie.
Wong was a cast member on the ABC show American Housewife (2016–2021) and served as a writer for two episodes of the sitcom Fresh Off the Boat in 2015. She has voiced characters on the animated series Tuca & Bertie (2019–2022) and Big Mouth (2019–2023). She has also written and starred in the romantic comedy film Always Be My Maybe (2019).
Alexandra Dawn Wong was born in the neighborhood of Pacific Heights, San Francisco, on April 19, 1982. She is the youngest of four children in her family. Her Vietnamese mother, Tam "Tammy" Wong, moved from Huế, South Vietnam (now Vietnam) in 1960 to work as a social worker in the U.S. Her Chinese-American father, Adolphus Wong (1937–2011), was born in San Francisco and worked as an anesthesiologist for Kaiser Permanente for 30 years.
In 2000, Wong graduated from San Francisco University High School in San Francisco where she was student body class president. She went to UCLA, majoring in Asian American studies. During her junior year, she studied in Hanoi, Vietnam. After college, she continued her education in Vietnam through a Fulbright program.
After graduating from college, Wong first tried stand-up comedy when she was 23. She soon moved to New York City to pursue comedy and began performing as often as nine times in one night.
In 2011, Variety named her one of the "10 Comics to Watch". Soon after, she appeared on The Tonight Show, John Oliver's New York Stand Up Show and Dave Attell's Comedy Underground Show. She was also cast as series regular in the NBC comedy series Are You There, Chelsea? and appeared on Chelsea Lately. Next, she was in VH1's Best Week Ever, and MTV's Hey Girl in 2013. Additionally, she starred in Oliver Stone's Savages, and as Kate in the film Dealin' with Idiots.
In 2014, Wong played Dr. Lina Lark in the ABC medical drama series Black Box, opposite Kelly Reilly and Vanessa Redgrave. She guest-starred in three episodes of Inside Amy Schumer. Wong worked as a writer on Fresh Off the Boat, which premiered in 2015. Randall Park, who was a main cast member, had suggested Wong for the writing role. On Mother's Day 2016, Netflix released a stand-up special called Baby Cobra; the special was filmed at the Neptune Theater in Seattle in September 2015, when Wong was seven months pregnant with her first child. According to New York Magazine, "The special's arrival on Netflix is the sort of star-making moment that unites the tastes of the unlikeliest fans".
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Ali Wong
Alexandra Dawn Wong (born April 19, 1982) is an American comedian and actress. Her accolades include two Primetime Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She was named one of Time's 100 most influential people in 2020 and 2023.
She is best known for her Netflix stand-up specials Baby Cobra (2016), Hard Knock Wife (2018), Don Wong (2022), and Single Lady (2024). The last of these won her a Golden Globe Award. She won another Golden Globe and two Primetime Emmy Awards for her starring role in the Netflix dark comedy series Beef (2023), becoming the first Asian background woman to win a lead acting Emmy in a Limited Series or Movie.
Wong was a cast member on the ABC show American Housewife (2016–2021) and served as a writer for two episodes of the sitcom Fresh Off the Boat in 2015. She has voiced characters on the animated series Tuca & Bertie (2019–2022) and Big Mouth (2019–2023). She has also written and starred in the romantic comedy film Always Be My Maybe (2019).
Alexandra Dawn Wong was born in the neighborhood of Pacific Heights, San Francisco, on April 19, 1982. She is the youngest of four children in her family. Her Vietnamese mother, Tam "Tammy" Wong, moved from Huế, South Vietnam (now Vietnam) in 1960 to work as a social worker in the U.S. Her Chinese-American father, Adolphus Wong (1937–2011), was born in San Francisco and worked as an anesthesiologist for Kaiser Permanente for 30 years.
In 2000, Wong graduated from San Francisco University High School in San Francisco where she was student body class president. She went to UCLA, majoring in Asian American studies. During her junior year, she studied in Hanoi, Vietnam. After college, she continued her education in Vietnam through a Fulbright program.
After graduating from college, Wong first tried stand-up comedy when she was 23. She soon moved to New York City to pursue comedy and began performing as often as nine times in one night.
In 2011, Variety named her one of the "10 Comics to Watch". Soon after, she appeared on The Tonight Show, John Oliver's New York Stand Up Show and Dave Attell's Comedy Underground Show. She was also cast as series regular in the NBC comedy series Are You There, Chelsea? and appeared on Chelsea Lately. Next, she was in VH1's Best Week Ever, and MTV's Hey Girl in 2013. Additionally, she starred in Oliver Stone's Savages, and as Kate in the film Dealin' with Idiots.
In 2014, Wong played Dr. Lina Lark in the ABC medical drama series Black Box, opposite Kelly Reilly and Vanessa Redgrave. She guest-starred in three episodes of Inside Amy Schumer. Wong worked as a writer on Fresh Off the Boat, which premiered in 2015. Randall Park, who was a main cast member, had suggested Wong for the writing role. On Mother's Day 2016, Netflix released a stand-up special called Baby Cobra; the special was filmed at the Neptune Theater in Seattle in September 2015, when Wong was seven months pregnant with her first child. According to New York Magazine, "The special's arrival on Netflix is the sort of star-making moment that unites the tastes of the unlikeliest fans".
