BD Wong

BD Wong was born on October 24, 1960, in San Francisco, California, into a Chinese-American family. Discovering acting at Lincoln High School and San Francisco State University, he moved to New York and made an astonishing Broadway debut in 1988 opposite John Lithgow in David Henry Hwang’s 'M. Butterfly', playing Chinese opera singer Song Liling. His hypnotic performance swept every major American theatre award, making him the only actor in history to win all five major Broadway debut honors for a single role.

Wong achieved international cinematic fame playing chief geneticist Dr. Henry Wu in Steven Spielberg’s landmark blockbuster 'Jurassic Park' (1993), reprising the pivotal role twenty-two years later across the multi-billion-dollar 'Jurassic World' trilogy (2015–2022). In Disney's animated classic 'Mulan' (1998) and its sequel, he provided the distinguished speaking voice of Captain Li Shang.

In television, Wong became a beloved staple of American procedural drama as FBI psychiatrist Dr. George Huang on NBC’s 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit', appearing in over 230 episodes. He later earned a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for his riveting dual portrayal of hacker Whiterose / Minister Zhang in Sam Esmail’s acclaimed series 'Mr. Robot'. A prominent LGBTQ+ and Asian-American civil rights advocate, Wong received the Human Rights Campaign Visibility Award and GLAAD Media Award.