Background
Wong was born in Eccles, in Greater Manchester, north-west England, to parents who had emigrated from Hong Kong to the United Kingdom via Ireland.
Wong was born in Eccles, in Greater Manchester, north-west England, to parents who had emigrated from Hong Kong to the United Kingdom via Ireland.
He was brought up in Salford. He took a two-year performing arts course at Salford College, and, while there, worked as an usher at Manchester’s now defunct Green Room. His first role was in a 1993 British Broadcasting Corporation Radio play called Kai Mei Sauce, written by Kevin Wong.
He appeared alongside Sean Lock in the situation comedy 15 Storeys High, and as Doctor Franklin Fu in the second series of Look Around You.
In 2007, Wong starred in the feature film Grow Your Own. Wong also appeared in the movie Shanghai playing the character Juso Kita and the British Broadcasting Corporation series Spirit Warriors in the role of Li.
In 2012, Wong appeared in the highly anticipated film Prometheus. In 2013, it was announced that Wong had been cast in the lead role of #aww: The Arrest of Ai WeiWei at the Hampstead.
Shortly after, the Almeida announced that Wong had joined the cast of new play Chimerica.
Also in 2013, Wong played the role of gangster Lau in the British Broadcasting Corporation Two comedy-drama The Wrong Mans. In 2014, Wong played the role of Kublai Khan in the Netflix series Marco Polo, which on 7 January 2015 was renewed by Netflix for a 10-episode second series. The next year, he appeared in another Ridley Scott science fiction film, playing Bruce Ng in The Martian.
In 2016, he joined the cast of the superhero film Doctor Strange.
