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Garrett Wang

ActorBorn December 15, 1968 (56 years)
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Garrett Richard Wang (born December 15, 1968, height 5' 11" (1,80 m)) is an American actor. Wang is best known for his role in Star Trek: Voyager as Ensign Harry Kim.

Early life

Wang was born in Riverside, California, to Chinese immigrant parents who moved to Indiana and then to Bermuda, Memphis, Tennessee and then back to California. He moved from Los Angeles to Las Vegas in 2008.

Wang graduated from Harding Academy High School in Memphis, Tennessee. Wang then moved to Los Angeles to attend UCLA to major in pre-med. He switched majors multiple times, going from Biology to Political Science to History to Economics and finally Asian Studies with all his upper division electives in Theater.

Career

Wang is best known for his role as Ensign Harry Kim on Voyager which ran from 1995 to 2001. He was keen to participate in a new role for the 2007 fan production Star Trek: Of Gods and Men, saying, "it’s always more challenging for an actor to play the bad guy."

Wang also made an appearance in the television series All American Girl episode "Submission:Impossible" as Raymond Han.

In 2010 Wang was named the Director of the Trek Track for Dragon Con.

Wang recently participated at the Calgary Expo 2012 Comicon, interviewing Stan Lee and being present at a booth among other exhibitors, as well as being a surprise speaker at TNG Exposed.

Star Trek

From early childhood on, actor Garrett Wang was a science fiction fan, in particular Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica.

Wang watched all the Star Trek films that came out in the theaters but never really got into Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) prior to working on Voyager. The first season one TNG episode he watched was "Code of Honor", which Garrett says is widely considered by all Trek writers to be the worst episode of Star Trek ever produced. On three separate occasions (in a span of a year and a half) he tried to watch TNG again and it was always a repeat of "Code of Honor". Wang considers this a good thing, as he believes if he was a huge fan of TNG, he might have been so nervous during his auditions for Voyager that he might have ended up losing the role altogether.
Known For
  • Star Trek: Voyager
  • Survival Island

Filmography

2020
Star Trek: Lower Decks (TV Series) · as Harry Kim (voice)
2020
Unbelievable!!!!! · as Dr. Charles Hunter
2019
2014
Alongside Night · as Major Chin
2012
Rock Jocks · as Outgoing Crew Captain
2010
Acts of Violence · as Todd
2009
2007
Star Trek: Of Gods and Men · as Commander Garan
2005
2005
Into the West (TV Series) · as Chow-Ping Yen
2005
American Dad! (TV Series) · as Chinese Man (voice)
2002
Survival Island · as Paul
1999
The Auteur Theory · as Mike Wong / God
1999
1998
Hundred Percent · as Troy Tashima
1998
Ivory Tower · as Mark
1995
1995
Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series) · as Harry Kim
1994
All-American Girl (TV Series) · as Raymond Han

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