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Alexandra Dawn "Ali" Wong (born April 19, 1982) is an American stand-up comedian and actress. She is best known for her Netflix stand-up specials Baby Cobra (2016), Hard Knock Wife (2018), and Don Wong (2022).[1][2] She starred in the film Always Be My Maybe (2019), on which she also served as a writer and producer.

Ali Wong
Wong in June 2012
Born	Alexandra Dawn Wong (1982-04-19) April 19, 1982 (age 40) San Francisco, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress comedian
Years active	2005–current
Spouse	Justin Hakuta ​ ​ (m. 2014; sep. 2022)​
Children	2
Relatives	Ken Hakuta (father-in-law)
Website	aliwong.com

Wong was also a cast member on the ABC show American Housewife and has previously appeared on Inside Amy Schumer, Black Box, and Are You There, Chelsea? She was a writer for the first three seasons of the sitcom Fresh Off the Boat. She voices the title character Roberta "Bertie" Songthrush on the animated series Tuca & Bertie and Ali on the animated series Big Mouth. She was included in Time's 100 Most Influential People of 2020.[3]

Early life

Alexandra Dawn Wong[4] was born in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, California, on April 19, 1982,[5][6] the youngest of four children.[5][7] Her Vietnamese mother, Tam "Tammy" Wong, relocated from Huế in 1960 to work as a social worker in the U.S.[5][8][9] Her Chinese-American father, Adolphus Wong (1937–2011), was an anesthesiologist who worked for Kaiser Permanente for 30 years.[10]

In 2000, Wong graduated from San Francisco University High School,[11] where she was student body class president.[12] She enrolled at UCLA, where she majored in Asian-American studies and discovered her love of performing as a member of the university's LCC Theatre Company,[13] the country's largest and oldest Asian-American collegiate theater company.[14] She spent a summer working at The Lair of the Golden Bear, a UC Berkeley alumni summer family camp and, during her junior year, spent time in Hanoi.[5] She graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Asian-American studies in 2005.[15][16] After college, she studied in Vietnam through a Fulbright program.[17][18]

Career

After graduating from college, Wong first tried stand-up comedy at the age of 23. She soon moved to New York City to pursue comedy, and began to perform up to nine times a night.[19]

In 2011, Variety named her one of the "10 Comics to Watch".[1] 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.[20] After that, she was in VH1's Best Week Ever and MTV's Hey Girl in 2013. Additionally, she starred in Oliver Stone's Savages, opposite Benicio Del Toro and Salma Hayek, and as Kate in the film Dealin' with Idiots.[6]

In 2014, Wong played Dr. Lina Lark in the ABC medical drama series Black Box, opposite Kelly Reilly and Vanessa Redgrave.[21][22] Since then, she has guest-starred in several episodes of Inside Amy Schumer. Wong has been a writer on Fresh Off the Boat since 2014.[23] Randall Park, who is on the main cast, had suggested Wong for the writing role.[15]

On Mother's Day 2016,[24] Netflix released a stand-up special called Baby Cobra; the special was filmed in September 2015, when Wong was seven months pregnant with her first child[25] at the Neptune Theater in Seattle.[7][19][26] 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."[27] On September 11, 2016, Wong spoke at, and walked the runway during New York Fashion Week for Opening Ceremony's show.[28] In October 2016, Wong began starring in the ABC sitcom American Housewife. On May 13, 2018, Wong's second Netflix special, Hard Knock Wife, was released. It was filmed in late September 2017 at the Winter Garden Theatre in Toronto when she was seven months pregnant with her second child.[29][30] In 2018, she voiced the character Citrus Twisty, a soda genie, in an episode of OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes.[31]

Wong starred with Randall Park in the 2019 Netflix film Always Be My Maybe, a film directed by Nahnatchka Khan, and written by Wong, Park, and Michael Golamco. Wong voiced a titular character Bertie in the Netflix animated show Tuca & Bertie.

On October 15, 2019, Wong came out with a book entitled Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets and Advice for Living Your Best Life.[32][33] She dubs it as a life guide for her two daughters to read when they're adults.[34]

In February 2022, Wong released her third Netflix stand-up special, Don Wong. This is her first stand-up special in which she is not visibly pregnant.[35]

Personal life

Wong met Justin Hakuta, vice president of product at healthcare company GoodRx and the son of inventor Ken Hakuta, at the wedding of their mutual friends in 2010.[36] They married in 2014.[37] They have two daughters named Mari and Nikki,[38] and Wong has been open about miscarrying twins prior to becoming pregnant with her first daughter. She stated that making jokes about her miscarriage has helped her cope.[17]

In April 2022, Wong and Hakuta announced they had filed for divorce.[39]

Filmography

As actress

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2011	Breaking In	Ana Ng	3 episodes
2012	Are You There, Chelsea?	Olivia	12 episodes
2012	Savages	Claire
2013	Dealin' with Idiots	Katieie
2014	Black Box	Dr. Lina Lark	13 episodes
2014–2015	Inside Amy Schumer	Various characters	3 episodes
2015	BoJack Horseman	Maddy (voice)	Episode: "Escape from L.A."
2016	Animals.	Dana (voice)	Episode: "Rats"
2016	The Angry Birds Movie	Betty Bird (voice)
2016–2021	American Housewife	Doris	Series regular
2017	Fresh Off the Boat	Margot	Episode: "The Flush"
2017	The Lego Ninjago Movie	General Olivia (Voice)
2017	Father Figures	Ali
2018	Ralph Breaks the Internet	Felony (voice)
2018	OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes	Twisty (voice)	Episode: "Soda Genie"
2018	Ask the Storybots	The Brain	Episode: "How Do Ears Hear?"
2019–2022	Tuca & Bertie	Bertie (voice)	Main role
2019	Always Be My Maybe	Sasha Tran	Also writer and producer
2019–present	Big Mouth	Ali	14 episodes
2020	Birds of Prey	Ellen Yee
2020	Onward	Gore (voice)
2020	Love, Victor	Ms. Thomas	Recurring role
2020	Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe	Super Super Big Doctor (voice)
2022	Human Resources	Becca (voice)	Main role, spinoff of Big Mouth
2022	Paper Girls	Adult Erin	Recurring role
TBA	Beef		Main role, upcoming series

As herself

Year	Title	Notes
2012	Chelsea Lately	9 episodes
2013	Hey Girl	5 episodes
2013	Best Week Ever	16 episodes
2016	Ali Wong: Baby Cobra	Netflix comedy special
2017	The Hero	Movie
2017	Bill Nye Saves The World	S2E4 - Netflix
2018	Ugly Delicious	S1E8 - Netflix
2018	Ali Wong: Hard Knock Wife	Netflix comedy special
May 28, 2019	The Ellen DeGeneres Show	"Ali Wong Experienced Pure Joy Kissing Daniel Dae Kim" and "Ali Wong and Twitch Play 'Taste Buds'"
Oct 23, 2019	The Daily Show with Trevor Noah	"Lessons for Her Daughters in Dear Girls and Life as a Female Comic "
Oct 24, 2019	The Ellen Show	"Ali Wong Once Bombed in Front of Eddie Murphy" and "Ali Wong on Whether She Wants Her Daughters to Be Comedians"
May 09, 2022	Celebrity IOU	"Ali Wong's Renovation Surprise"
2022	Ali Wong: Don Wong	Netflix comedy special

Further reading

• (2016) – Interview with Wong on Fresh Air with Terry Gross
• (2019) – Excerpts from her book Dear Girls

References

External links

• Ali Wong
• Ali Wong at IMDb

На других языках

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[de] Ali Wong

Ali Wong (* 19. April 1982 in San Francisco, Kalifornien) ist eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin und Stand-Up-Komikerin.

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- [en] Ali Wong

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[es] Ali Wong

Alexandra "Ali" Wong (San Francisco, California; 19 de abril de 1982)[1][2] es una actriz, comediante y escritora estadounidense,[3][4] reconocida por sus especiales de comedia en vivo para Netflix Baby Cobra y Hard Knock Wife y por su participación en las series de televisión American Housewife, Are You There, Chelsea?, Inside Amy Schumer, Tuca & Bertie y Black Box.

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[ru] Вонг, Эли

Александра «Эли» Вонг (англ. Alexandra «Ali» Wong; род. 19 апреля 1982 (1982-04-19))[2][3] — американская актриса, комедиантка и сценаристка[4][5].

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