Celebrity Biographies
Benedict Wong
Although he has been close to Mars and the Moon, and traveled aboard the Prometheus ship, this actor with oriental features has his feet on the ground, which means that he has been able to advance his career step by step. So it’s not so strange to him that popularity came to him with a superhero movie called “Doctor Strange”, where Wong plays… Wong.
Benedict Wong is English, but in times when the Chinese giant is waking up, his origins together with his markedly oriental face can be a formidable help to establish himself on those commercial bridges between East and West, increasingly important in a globalized world. Born in Manchester in 1971, his parents from the British colony of Hong Kong emigrated there via Ireland.
He did two years of acting at Salford City College, but there was a living to be made, so he worked as an usher at the Green Room Theatre. Since he was little, he admired Bruce Lee , and enjoyed the movies that were made in the city where his parents came from, with their usual martial arts choreography.
He started on television as an extra, at the beginning of the 90s. It was hard to play a thug without a phrase and little else, having the qualification to declaim Shakespeare, but he knew how to hold his own, and he admits that there was a moment when he was about to to throw in the towel. Although his small roles for Ridley Scott in Prometheus (2012) and Mars (The Martian) (2015) are known, in 2001 he appeared briefly in Spy Game , by his brother Tony Scott . But the following year was the turning point, he got noticed as an illegal immigrant in Stephen Frears’ hard – hitting Hidden Business., in an ugly organ trafficking plot, which earned him consideration for the independent British film awards. In this line of drama and thriller, he also participated in the miniseries La sombra del poder (2003).
It would be said that science fiction and fantasy maintain a kind of idyll with Wong, because in addition to the Ridley Scott connection, Michael Winterbottom had him for Code 46 (2002), Danny Boyle for Sunshine (2007), Duncan Jones for Moon ( 2009), in addition to what could be his star role, Wong, the last name coincides!, in Doctor Strange , a role that he will repeat in Avengers: Infinity War .
But with a solid career in the United Kingdom, the actor has known how to get on the bandwagon that his slanted eyes offered him in the spectacular Netflix historical series Marco Polo , as well as one of the episodes of Black Mirror , a disturbing warning plot before the new technologies.