ABOUT BENEDICT WONG
British actor known for playing Ravel in Prometheus and Bruce Ng in The Martian . He also appeared as Kublai Khan in the Netflix series Marco Polo and starred as Master Lin in Syfy's Deadly Class . He played Wong in the Marvel film Doctor Strange .
He studied at Salford College and earned his first role in 1993 as part of a BBC Radio play.
He had to learn to ride horses and gain 30 pounds in order to play Kublai Khan . In 2022, he reprised his role as Wong in both Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and She-Hulk: Attorney at Law .
He grew up in Salford. His parents were immigrants from Hong Kong.
He and Sean Lock starred in the sitcom 15 Storeys High from 2002-2004.
