Early career Wong's first role was in the 1993
BBC Radio play
Kai Mei Sauce, written by his cousin, Kevin Wong. He appeared as Errol Spears alongside
Sean Lock in the situation comedy
15 Storeys High, and as Franklin Fu in the second series of
Look Around You. In 2003, he was nominated at the
British Independent Film Awards for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Guo Yi in
Dirty Pretty Things. In 2007, Wong starred in the feature film
Grow Your Own. He appeared in the second episode of Series 4 of the Channel 4 comedy
The IT Crowd as Prime, a previous
Countdown contestant who had won the sixteenth
Countdown teapot when he was known as Harold Tong. He also appeared in the film
Shanghai as Juso Kita, and played Li in the BBC series
Spirit Warriors. In 2012, Wong appeared in the
Ridley Scott film
Prometheus as the ship's pilot, Ravel. In 2013, he played the lead role in
#aiww: The Arrest of Ai WeiWei at the
Hampstead Theatre. Shortly after, the
Almeida Theatre announced that he had joined the cast of the play
Chimerica as Zhang Lin. Also in he played gangster Lau in the
BBC Two comedy-drama
The Wrong Mans.
International breakthrough In 2014, Wong played
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
Jet Propulsion Lab director Bruce Ng in
The Martian. In 2016, he co-starred as Wong in the superhero film
Doctor Strange (2016) and later reprised the role in
Avengers: Infinity War (2018),
Avengers: Endgame (2019),
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021),
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021),
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), and the 2022 Disney+ series
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. He appeared in
Hated in the Nation, an episode of the
anthology series Black Mirror, playing Shaun Li, an agent with the
National Crime Agency in 2016. In 2017 he voiced Alex Yu in the
Arkane Studios game
Prey and starred in
2036: Nexus Dawn, a promotional short film prequel to
Blade Runner 2049 directed by
Luke Scott and co-starring
Jared Leto. He appeared as the scientist Lomax in the 2018 science fiction horror film
Annihilation. In 2019, he performed the voice of Skeksis general
skekVar in the Netflix series
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance and the voice of Bull in the film
Lady and the Tramp. In 2020, he appeared as a Necromancer in an episode of the
FX television series
What We Do in the Shadows. Wong's 2013 political play
#aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei was streamed through the news network
The Guardian again in May 2020. In 2021, Wong voiced the warrior giant Tong in the Disney animated film
Raya and the Last Dragon. In 2021, he was nominated for a
Spirit Award for
Best Supporting Male for his performance as Kyo in
Nine Days. He joined the cast of the
Netflix live action adaptation of the Chinese novel
The Three Body Problem by
Liu Cixin, which began shooting later that year. In 2022, through
BBC Radio, he partnered with Ai WeiWei again as the narrator for Ai's memoir
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows. In 2024,
3 Body Problem was released. The show was well received, with Wong's performance being singled out. ==Personal life==