Ali Wong Biography – Ali Wong Wiki
Ali Wong born Alexandra Dawn Wong is an American comedian, actress, and writer. She is best known for her Netflix stand-up specials Baby Cobra (2016), Hard Knock Wife (2018), and Don Wong (2022). She starred in the film Always Be My Maybe (2019), on which she also served as a writer and producer. Wong was also a cast member on the ABC show American Housewife and has previously appeared on Inside Amy Schumer, Black Box, and Are You There, Chelsea? She was a writer for the first three seasons of the sitcom Fresh Off the Boat. She voices the title character Roberta “Bertie” Songthrush on the animated series Tuca & Bertie and Ali on the animated series Big Mouth. She was included in Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2020.
After graduating from college, she first tried stand-up comedy at the age of 23. She soon moved to New York City to pursue comedy, and started to perform up to nine times a night. In 2011, Variety named her one of the “10 Comics to Watch”. Soon after, she appeared on The Tonight Show, John Oliver’s New York Stand Up Show and Dave Attell’s Comedy Underground Show. She was also cast as series regular in the NBC comedy series Are You There, Chelsea? and appeared on Chelsea Lately. After that, she was in VH1’s Best Week Ever and MTV’s Hey Girl in 2013. Additionally, she starred in Oliver Stone’s Savages, opposite Benicio Del Toro and Salma Hayek, and as Kate in the film Dealin’ with Idiots. In 2014, she played Dr. Lina Lark in the ABC medical drama series Black Box, opposite Kelly Reilly and Vanessa Redgrave. Since then, she has guest-starred in several episodes of Inside Amy Schumer. Wong has been a writer on Fresh Off the Boat since 2014. Randall Park, who is on the main cast, had suggested Wong for the writing role.
On Mother’s Day 2016, Netflix released a stand-up special called Baby Cobra; the special was filmed in September 2015, when she was seven months pregnant with her first child at the Neptune Theater in Seattle. According to New York Magazine, “The special’s arrival on Netflix is the sort of star-making moment that unites the tastes of the unlikeliest fans.” On September 11, 2016, Wong spoke at, and walked the runway during New York Fashion Week for Opening Ceremony’s show. In October 2016, she started starring in the main cast of the ABC sitcom American Housewife. On May 13, 2018, her second Netflix special, Hard Knock Wife, was released. It was filmed in late September 2017 at the Winter Garden Theatre in Toronto when she was seven months pregnant with her second child. In 2018, she voiced the character Citrus Twisty, a soda genie, in an episode of OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes.
Wong starred with Randall Park in the 2019 Netflix film Always Be My Maybe, a film directed by Nahnatchka Khan, and written by Wong, Park, and Michael Golamco. She voiced a titular character Bertie in the Netflix animated show Tuca & Bertie. On October 15, 2019, Wong came out with a book entitled Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets and Advice for Living Your Best Life. She dubs it as a life guide for her two daughters to read when they’re adults. In February 2022, she released her third Netflix stand-up special, Don Wong. This is her first stand-up special in which she is not visibly pregnant.
In 2000,she graduated from San Francisco University High School, where she was student body class president. She enrolled at UCLA, where she majored in Asian-American studies and discovered her love of performing as a member of the university’s LCC Theatre Company, the country’s largest and oldest Asian-American collegiate theater company. She spent a summer working at The Lair of the Golden Bear, a UC Berkeley alumni summer family camp and, during her junior year, spent time in Hanoi. She graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Asian-American studies in 2005. After college, she studied in Vietnam through a Fulbright program.
Ali Wong Age
She was born on April 19, 1982 in Pacific Heights neighbourhood of San Francisco, California, United States.
Ali Wong Husband
She met her husband Justin Hakuta, vice president of product at healthcare company GoodRx and the son of inventor Ken Hakuta, at the wedding of their mutual friends in 2010. They married on November 27, 2014 in San Fransisco. They have two daughters named Mari and Nikki, and Wong has been open about miscarrying twins prior to getting pregnant with her first daughter. She has stated that joking about her miscarriage helped her cope.
In April 2022, Wong and Hakuta said they are divorcing. “It’s amicable and they will continue to co-parent lovingly,” revealed by a reliable source.
Ali Wong Children
She has two children, Mari Hakuta born in November 2015 and Nikki Hakuta born in December 2017.
Ali Wong Family
She is the youngest of four children. Her Vietnamese mother, Tam “Tammy” Wong, relocated from Huế in 1960 to work as a social worker in the U.S. Her Chinese-American father, Adolphus Wong, was an anesthesiologist who worked for Kaiser Permanente for 30 years.
Ali Wong Height
She stands at a listed height of 4 feet 11¾ inches (1.52 meters) tall.
Ali Wong Instagram
Her Instagram handle is @aliwong.
