Bradley Darryl Wong
Bradley Darryl "BD" Wong (born October 24, 1960 in San Francisco , California ) is an American actor and voice actor . Wong is best known for his roles in the television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Oz - Hell Behind Bars, as well as in the films Seven Years in Tibet , Father of the Bride 1 + 2, Jurassic Park , Jurassic World and Jurassic World: That fallen kingdom .
Life
Wong was born in San Francisco, California, of Chinese descent. He attended Lincoln High School and graduated from San Francisco State University . Wong made his breakthrough as an actor on Broadway with his debut in M. Butterfly . For this, Wong received several awards such as the Tony Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Clarence Derwent Award and the Theater World Award.
Wong lives openly gay, initially with his then partner Richie Jackson, they ended their relationship in 2004. In 2018 he married his long-term partner Richert Schnorr. Wong and Jackson have a child who was carried to term by a surrogate mother and was born on May 28, 2000. In 2003 Wong received the 14th Annual GLAAD Media Award for being open about his homosexuality. In 2017 he was accepted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which awards the Oscars every year.
Broadway productions
- 1988: M. Butterfly , Song Liling
- 1993: Face Value , Randall Lee
- 1999: You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown Revival , Linus
- 2004: Pacific Overtures Revival , Reciter
- 2005: Children and Art Special Benefit , Performer
Honors and prizes (selection)
- 1988: Clarence Derwent Award for M. Butterfly
- 1988: Tony Award , Best Featured Actor in a Play, M. Butterfly
- 1988: Drama Desk Award , Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, M. Butterfly
- 1988: Theater World Award , M. Butterfly
- 2003: GLAAD Media Award
Filmography (selection)
Movies
- 1983: No Big Deal (TV movie)
- 1986: Karate Kid II - decision in Okinawa (The Karate Kid, Part II)
- 1988: Crash Course
- 1989: Family Business
- 1990: Freshman (The Freshman)
- 1990: Good Night, Sweet Wife: A Murder in Boston (TV movie)
- 1991: Mystery Date (Mystery Date)
- 1991: Father of the Bride (Father of the Bride)
- 1992: The Lounge People
- 1993: ... and life goes on ( And the Band Played On , TV movie)
- 1993: Jurassic Park
- 1994: Men of War
- 1994: No Panic - Good hostages are rare (The Ref)
- 1995: A Gift from Heaven - Father of the Bride Part II
- 1995: Die Verblendeten ( Dazzle , TV movie)
- 1995: Kalamazoo (short film)
- 1996: Executive Decision (Executive Decision)
- 1997: Seven Years in Tibet (Seven Years in Tibet)
- 1998: Murderous Exchange II ( The Substitute 2: School's Out , TV movie)
- 1998: Slappy and the Stinkers
- 2002: The Salton Sea (The Salton Sea)
- 2005: Stay
- 2006: Ira & Abby
- 2007: Marco Polo (TV movie)
- 2012: White Frog ... power of our love
- 2014: The Normal Heart (TV movie)
- 2015: Focus
- 2015: Jurassic World
- 2017: So Close to the Stars (The Space Between Us)
- 2018: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
- 2018: Bird Box - Close Your Eyes (Bird Box)
TV Shows
- 1986: Simon & Simon (episode 5x15)
- 1987: Disneyland (episode 31x15)
- 1994: All-American Girl (18 episodes)
- 1994: Young Fates ( ABC Afterschool Specials , episode 23x02)
- 1995: Bless this House (Episode 1x11)
- 1996: The X-Files - The FBI's Scary Cases ( The X-Files , Episode 3x19)
- 1997–2003: Oz - Hell Behind Bars ( Oz , 46 episodes)
- 1999: Chicago Hope - End of the Line Hope ( Chicago Hope , Episode 6x06)
- 2000: Welcome to New York (episode 1x04)
- 2001–2015: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (143 episodes)
- 2004: Century City (Episode 1x01)
- 2012: Awake (13 episodes)
- 2015: Navy CIS: New Orleans ( NCIS: New Orleans , episode 1x13)
- 2015-2019: Mr. Robot
- 2015-2019: Gotham (16 episodes)
- 2018: American Horror Story (3 episodes)
- since 2020: Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens
Synchronous roles
TV Shows:
- 1995: Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child, as The Wolf
- 2002: Kim Possible , as Agent Will Du
- 2017: DuckTales (voice of Toad Liu Hai, episode 1x07)
- 2019-2020: The Flash (TV series) (voice of Godspeed)
Films:
- 1996: Joe's Apartment - A Bug's Life ( Joe's Apartment , as a cockroach)
- 1998: Mulan , as Captain Li Shang
- 2004: Mulan 2 , as General Li Shang
Video games:
- 2006: Kingdom Hearts II , as Captain Li Shang
- 2018: Jurassic World Evolution , when Dr. Henry Wu
Web links
- B. D. Wong in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ biography on Imdb
- ↑ "Class of 2017". Accessed June 30, 2017. http://www.app.oscars.org/class2017/ .
- ↑ Stockard Channing, BD Wong Honored at 14th Annual GLAAD Media Awards Presented by Absolut Vodka in San Francisco , June 2, 2003 ( Memento from January 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Wong, Bradley Darryl |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wong, BD; Wong, BD |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American actor and voice actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1960 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | San Francisco , California, United States |