Benedict Wong
Biography
Benedict Wong was born in 1970 in Manchester, England. He is an actor and writer, known for Doctor Strange (2016), Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and The Martian (2015).
Family
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Trivia
Frequently appears in space-themed movies. As of 2015, has appeared in four of them: Sunshine (2007), Moon (2009), Prometheus (2012) and The Martian (2015).
His parents emigrated from Hong Kong to the UK via Ireland.
Took a two-year performing arts course at Salford City College.
Fan of Manchester United.
Worked as an usher at Manchester's now defunct Green Room Theatre.
Was brought up in Salford.
Personal Quotes
Khan let Polo be his eyes and ears. He was the first one to build a bridge between East and West.
I'd like to helm my own series. Something British.
I'm in the loners' society. I don't want to classify myself as anything.
Bruce Lee has always been a hero of mine, and the choreography in 'Enter The Dragon' is amazing.
Customer freedom! Don't dictate how I want to watch my TV!
In America, you're just an American. You're accepted. It doesn't matter that you're of whatever race. If anything, I'm British, and that's it. So let's just get on with it, really.
In Kazahkstan, you would drive five hours outside the city to where roads sort of stop being roads, and it was just in the mountains and deathly quiet. And you could only really hear the clumping of the horses, and it was a sort of a beautiful silence. Like it enveloped you.
I feel like we are reintroducing historical figures, with the explorer Marco Polo and the grandson of Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, the ruler of the Mongol empire, the trading place that everybody wanted to get involved in.
