Ali Wong Biography
Ali Wong is a stand-up comedian and actress from the United States. Her Netflix stand-up specials include Baby Cobra (2016), Hard Knock Wife (2018), and Don Wong (2022). Wong initially tried stand-up comedy when he was 23 years old. She quickly relocated to New York City to pursue comedy and began performing up to nine times every night.
Ali Wong Age
She was born Alexandra Dawn Wong on April 19, 1982, in San Francisco, California, United States of America. Ali is 41 years old as of April 2023.
Ali Wong Height
Wong stands at a height of 4′ 11″ (1.52 m) tall.
Ali Wong Education
Wong graduated from San Francisco University High School in 2000, where she served as student body class president. She attended UCLA and majored in Asian-American studies. She visited Hanoi during her junior year. She studied in Vietnam after college through the Fulbright program.
Ali Wong Family- Parents
Alexandra was born and raised, in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, California, as the youngest of four children. Her Vietnamese mother, Tam “Tammy” Wong, moved to the United States in 1960 to work as a social worker. Adolphus Wong (1937-2011), her Chinese-American father, was an anesthesiologist who worked for Kaiser Permanente for 30 years.
Ali Wong Husband- Married
Wong met entrepreneur Justin Hakuta, a Fulbright Scholar and Harvard Business School student.) They tied the knot in 2014. They are the parents of two girls. Wong and Hakuta announced their divorce in April 2022, shortly after her Don Wong stand-up special was released in February 2022. They have, nevertheless, remained excellent friends. In late 2022, Wong began dating actor Bill Hader.
Ali Wong Career
Wong tried stand-up comedy for the first time at the age of 23 after graduating from college. She quickly relocated to New York City to pursue comedy and began performing up to nine times every night. Variety named her one of the “10 Comics to Watch” in 2011. She went on to appear on The Tonight Show, John Oliver’s New York Stand Up Show, and Dave Attell’s Comedy Underground Show shortly after. She also featured on Chelsea Lately and was cast as a series regular in the NBC comedy series Are You There, Chelsea? In 2013, she appeared in VH1’s Best Week Ever and MTV’s Hey Girl. She also appeared in Oliver Stone’s Savages, alongside Benicio Del Toro and Salma Hayek, and as Kate in Dealin’ with Idiots.
Wong starred as Dr. Lina Lark in the ABC medical drama series Black Box in 2014, alongside Kelly Reilly and Vanessa Redgrave. She has since appeared in multiple episodes of Inside Amy Schumer. Wong has been a Fresh Off the Boat columnist since 2014. Wong was suggested for the writing role by Randall Park, who is also in the lead cast. On Mother’s Day 2016, Netflix aired Baby Cobra, a stand-up special taped at the Neptune Theatre in Seattle in September 2015, when Wong was seven months pregnant with her first child. 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.”
Wong spoke at and walked the runway for Opening Ceremony’s show during New York Fashion Week in September. Wong joined the cast of the ABC sitcom American Housewife in October 2016. Hard Knock Wife, Wong’s second Netflix special, was released. It was shot in late September 2017 at Toronto’s Winter Garden Theatre while she was seven months pregnant with her second child. In an episode of OK K.O.! in 2018, she portrayed the character Citrus Twisty, a soda genie. Let us become heroes. Wong co-starred with Randall Park in Nahnatchka Khan’s 2019 Netflix film Always Be My Maybe, which was written by Wong, Park, and Michael Golamco. Wong played Bertie in the Netflix animated sitcom Tuca & Bertie from 2019 to 2022.
Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, and Advice for Living Your Best Life was published on October 15, 2019, by Wong. She characterized it as a life guide for her daughters to read as they grow older. The book earned the Goodreads Choice Award for Humour in 2019. Don Wong, Wong’s third Netflix stand-up special, was released in February 2022. Wong co-starred in the 2023 Netflix drama-comedy series Beef, opposite Steven Yeun, and was also an executive producer.
Ali Wong’s Net Worth
Ali has an estimated net worth of 4 million dollars.
Ali Wong Movies
2023 Beef Amy Lau
2022 Human Resources
2022 Paper Girls
2020 Birds of Prey
2020 Onward
2020 Love, Victor
2020 Phineas and Ferb the Movie:
2019–2022 Tuca & Bertie
2019 Always Be My Maybe
2019 Big Mouth
2018 Ralph Breaks the Internet
2018 OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes
2018 Ask the Storybots
2017 Fresh Off the Boat
2017 The Lego Ninjago Movie
2017 Father Figures
2016 Animals.
2016 The Angry Birds Movie
2016–2021 American Housewife
2015 BoJack Horseman
2014 Black Box
2014–2015 Inside Amy Schumer
2013 Dealin’ with Idiots
2012 Are You There, Chelsea?
2012 Savages
2011 Breaking In