Ali Wong

Person · Open Library

Works

1

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

Hong Kong

Active from

1969-08-08

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2,033

Total plays

28,266

Alexandra Dawn Wong (born April 19, 1982) is an American comedian, actress, writer, producer, and director. She is best known for her Netflix stand-up specials Baby Cobra (2016), Hard Knock Wife (2018), Don Wong (2022), and Single Lady (2024). She starred in the romantic comedy film Always Be My Maybe (2019) and was also a writer and producer for the movie. Wong has won three Golden Globe Awards throughout her career and two Primetime Emmy Awards for her role in the Netflix dark comedy series Be

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection

   · 2016 · cited 38,827x

2. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,411x

3. ModelFinder: fast model selection for accurate phylogenetic estimates

   · 2017 · cited 16,476x

4. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,391x

5. YOLO9000: Better, Faster, Stronger

   · 2017 · cited 14,751x

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Quotes

• “I was very dirty back then. Even now, I’ll look back on those days and think: ‘God, you were disgusting.’”
• “All of these people in the industry kept on telling me: ‘You’re likable and you’re cute, or whatever, but the jokes are really dirty and you’d get booked a lot more, and you’d be a lot more appealing if they were clean’…Maybe people were half-laughing, half-cringing at my jokes. But if you’re successful, people should be too busy laughing to cringe.”
• “Maybe it’s because women feel they want to maintain some mystery that they’re not gross, to be more attractive or something. For me it’s all part of intimacy. That’s how I define intimacy – living closer and being more honest, closer to what your real desires are – and it’s exciting.”
• “I see kids and how young they really are and I cannot imagine them coming on a boat by themselves, going to another country to work and be separated from their parents. It really humbles me and makes me grateful and it gave me a huge sense of…It’s part of my identity and gave me a very strong work ethic.”
• “I think [if you] consume mainstream pop culture and don’t activate a search for any other niche outlets then you can fall into this feeling that you are inferior.”
• “You know, it's tough when you have to wait around for other people to write something for you, because there's no precedent for someone who looks like you to play certain characters, right? So it's such a unique character that I've been dying to see and put on camera for a long time, that [Park] plays. And that's something for me that's really personal.”

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Key facts

Born

Alexandra Dawn Wong , ( 1982-04-19 ) April 19, 1982 (age 44) , San Francisco , California , U.S.

Education

University of California, Los Angeles ( BA )

Occupations

Comedian actress writer executive producer

Years active

2005–present

Spouse

Justin Hakuta ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2014 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2024 ) ​

Website

aliwong .com

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Wikidata facts

Official website

www.aliwong.com

Image

Ali Wong, 2013 (cropped).jpg

Number of children

2

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