Benedict Wong

Benedict Wong
Born Benedict Wong
1970
Manchester, England

Benedict Wong (born 1970) is an English actor and comedian.

Wong was born in Manchester and attended school in Salford. His first role was in a 1993 BBC Radio play called Kai Mei Sauce, written by Kevin Wong. He appeared alongside Sean Lock in the situation comedy 15 Storeys High, and as Dr. Franklin Fu in the second series of Look Around You. In 2003, he earned a British Independent Film Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Guo Yi in Dirty Pretty Things.

In early 2009 he acted alongside Marc Warren in the play The Pillowman at Leicester's Curve Theatre, and then went on to play Li in the BBC's award winning Spirit Warriors.

He recently appeared in the second episode of Series 4 of the Channel 4 comedy The IT Crowd, playing the character Prime, a previous Countdown contestant who had won the sixteenth Countdown teapot when he was known as Harold Tong, and also appeared in the movie Shanghai playing the character Juso Kita, starring alongside John Cusack.

Wong currently lives and works in central London.

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Filmography

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1994 Frank Stubbs Promotes Lee Episode: "Chinatown"
1995 Cardiac Arrest Radiographer Episode: "Shallow End"
Night Watch Guard
1996 Pie in the Sky Michael Cheung Episode: "Chinese Whispers"
Cracker Peter Yang Episode: "White Ghost"
1997 Supply & Demand Frankie Li
Breakout Jerry
2000 Arabian Nights Hassan Miniseries
2002 The Bill DS David Chiu Episodes: 052, 053, 054, 056, 057
15 Storeys High Errol
TLC Terry
Look Around You Chess/draughts player Episode: "The Brain"
2003 State of Play Pete Cheng Episode: #1.1
2005 Look Around You Dr Franklin Fu Episode: "Health"
2006 Eleventh Hour Danny Episode: "Containment"
2009 Spirit Warriors Li
2010 The IT Crowd Prime Episode: "The Final Countdown"
Spooks Kai Episode: 4
2011 Covert Affairs Shen Yue Episode: "World Leader Pretend"
Top Boy Ross Rosten

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2000 Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang) Pat Proudence
2001 Wit Fellow 2
Spy Game Tran
Double Happiness Dan
2002 Dirty Pretty Things Guo Yi
2003 Code 46 Medic
2005 On a Clear Day Chan
A Cock and Bull Story Ed
2007 Sunshine Trey
Grow Your Own Kung Sang
Frankenstein Ed Gore TV film
2008 Largo Winch William Kwan
2009 Moon Thompson
My Dad the Communist Dad
2010 Shanghai 2010 Juso Kita
2012 Prometheus Ravel

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