- Born
- Birth nameBradley Darryl Wong
- Height5′ 4½″ (1.64 m)
- BD Wong was born and raised in San Francisco, California. He made his Broadway debut in "M. Butterfly." He is the only actor to be honored with the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Clarence Derwent Award, and Theater World Award for the same performance. He starred in the television series All-American Girl (1994), and has made guest appearances on Sesame Street (1969) and The X-Files (1993). He was in the off-Broadway musical revival of "As Thousands Cheer" and followed with a critically acclaimed performance as "Linus" in the revival of "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown," returned to SVU, and is now starring in the revival of Stephen Sondheim's "Pacific Overtures."- IMDb Mini Biography By: Matt Dicker
- SpouseRichert Schnorr(October 7, 2018 - present)
- ChildrenJackson Foo WongBoaz Dov Wong
- ParentsRoberta Christine Wong (Leong)William D. Wong
- Won Broadway's 1988 Tony Award as Best Actor (Featured Role - Play) for creating the role of Song Liling in "M. Butterfly."
- Chose to go by his initials while playing his breakthrough role, M. Butterfly. The title character's gender is ambiguous, and he decided that using his initials instead of his full name would make it difficult to guess whether he was a man or a woman, thus adding to the androgyny of the character he was playing.
- In 1999, Wong and his then-partner, Richie Jackson, hired a surrogate mother to bear their child. Wong provided the sperm and Jackson's sister provided the ovum. The mother gave birth to a set of male twins on May 28, 2000. One, Boaz Dov Wong, died at birth as a result of twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome; the other, Jackson Foo Wong, was adopted by the couple. The couple later broke up; however, they still share joint custody of Jackson Foo. Wong later wrote a book about the experience entitled "Following Foo: the Electronic Adventures of the Chestnut Man".
- May 2003: published "Following Foo: the Electronic Adventures of the Chestnut Man", a memoir detailing the journey that he and longtime life partner, Richie Jackson, made towards parenthood with the assistance of a surrogate mother.
- In 2012, Wong's former partner Richie Jackson married Jordan Roth, one of the most powerful producers on Broadway (Roth is the president of Jujamcyn Theaters, and his successful shows have included The Book of Mormon, Clybourne Park, and Spring Awakening). The New York Times column covering the wedding said that Jackson Foo Wong, the then-12-year-old son of B. D. Wong and Richie Jackson, calls Wong "Dad," Richie Jackson "Daddy," and Roth "Daddy Jordan." The article also clarified that Richie Jackson and Jordan Roth have custody of the boy on weekdays and Wong has him every weekend, and the whole family eats a Friday-night (Shabbat) dinner together every week.
- "It is always, always, always one of the harder things to do for me. I remain on "SVU" because it is an incredible opportunity. It affords me also the additional opportunity of doing [stage work]. I am really grateful for the opportunity to do that because it's pretty rare I think, and I also choose to live in New York, and it's been really great that way." When asked about balancing TV work with stage work.
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