Russell Wong
Russell Wong was born in Troy, New York, United States on March 1st, 1963 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 61, Russell Wong biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Russell Girard Wong (born March 1, 1963) is an American actor.
He is the brother of actor/model Michael Wong and Declan Wong.
He was the series lead of Vanishing Son's television show Vanishing Son.
Early life
Wong, the sixth of seven children of Connie Van Yserloo, an American artist of French and Dutch descent, and Chinese restaurateur William Wong were born in Troy, New York. As a child, his family moved to Albany, where his father worked a restaurant. When Wong was seven years old, his parents separated, and he and his mother moved to California, settling near Yosemite. Wong graduated from Mariposa County High School in 1981 and later that fall, he attended Santa Monica City College.
Personal life
Eja Robinson-Wong (born 1988), together with dancer Eartha Robinson, is Wong's one daughter. Flora Cheong-Leen, a Hong Kong-based designer, married him. In 2012, the two couples divorced.
He is Michael Wong, a Hong Kong-based actor.
Career
Before appearing in a Hong Kong musical called Ge wu sheng ping (aka Musical Dancer) and a screen version of James Clavell's Tai-Pan, Wong supported himself as a photographer and as a dancer (appearing in rock videos with David Bowie, Donna Summer, and Janet Jackson, among other things). Following a number of television and film roles, including an appearance as Narong Bansari on an episode of the 80s crime show The Equalizer, but Wong began to appear as "The Dragon and the Angel") in 1989 and gained a leading role in Wayne Wang's acclaimed independent romantic comedy Eat a Bowl of Tea as Ben Loy. In Abel Ferrara's China Girl, a Romeo and Juliet love story film about the clash between Chinese gangsters and the Italian mob in New York, he also played a rising Chinese American gangster named Yung Gan.
Supporting roles in China Cry (as Lam Cheng Shen), China White (as Bobby Chow), and New Jack City (as Park) were due to follow, and Wong found himself working with Wayne Wang again, this time as Lin Xiao in Amy Tan's best-selling book The Joy Luck Club.
When he was in the lead role in the short lived TV series Vanishing Son, in which he played a Chinese political activist exiled in America, Wong's breakthrough role came in 1994. The show was successful enough to inspire three sequels, and it was later turned into a syndicated television series. In 1995, a People magazine named him as one of the fifty "Beautiful People."
After Vanishing Son's course, Wong moved on to more big-screen roles, including major roles in Prophecy II (as Danyael), The Tracker (as Rick Tsung), and Romeo Must Die (as the villain Kai to Jet Li's hero), as well as the made-for-TV epic The Monkey King. In the film Twisted starring Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy Garcia, and directed by Philip Kaufman, he also appeared Lieutenant Tong.
In 2003, he was starring in Robert Mark Kamen and Carlton Cuse's Black Sash, where he played a former drug cop named Tom Chang, who opened up a martial arts academy in San Francisco, who was handed over by his mentor, Master Li (played by Mako) to teach a number of young students "the art of 8 palm changes" or Baguazhang. Missy Peregrym, Corey Sevier, Ray J, Sarah Carter, and Drew Fuller appeared in the series. Despite the fact that 8 episodes were created, six of them wound up on The WB.
In the video game True Crime: Streets of Los Angeles (2003), Wong also voiced the main character, an undercover cop named Nick Kang. In the Thailand action film The Mummy: The Ming Guo starring Michelle Yeoh and Jet Li, he appeared as General Ming Guo opposite Michelle Yeoh and Jet Li. Leon appeared in Chris Chan Lee's independent film Undoing (2006) starring Sung Kang and Kelly Hu, as well as Anna Chi's Dim Sum Funeral (2008), starring Bai Ling and Talia Shire. He appeared on a number of television shows, including CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (as Lieutenant Arthur Chen), Just Legal (as the District Attorney in the pilot episode), Commander in Chief (as a Cabinet representative), Numb3rs (as Jeremy Wang).
Wong appeared in the TV series Nikita (as Victor Han), Hawaii Five-0 (as Kong Liang), and HBO Asia's Serangoon Road (as Winston, the husband of Joan Chen's character) in 2013. Wong was involved in a number of films shot in Asia and China, reuniting with Wayne Wang for Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (2011) (as the Bank CEO at the beginning of the film What Women Want (2011) starring Andy Lau and Gong Li).
In 2014, Wong completed shooting Grace, a horror film directed by Serangoon Road co-director Tony Tilse, which was shot in Singapore for HBO Asia. Roy Chan, the family's patriarch, appears in this film.