Garrett Wang

Garrett Wang

Born: December 15, 1968
in Riverside - California - USA
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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.

Movies for Garrett Wang...

Title: The Shuttlepod Show
Character: Self
Released: February 20, 2022
Type: TV
Actors Connor Trinneer, Dominic Keating, and Erica LaRose explore all things Star Trek, life on Earth, and more. Join Star Trek Enterprise's Commander Charles "Trip" Tucker III (Trinneer) and Lieutenant Malcom Reed (Keating) as they sit down with remarkable guests and have in depth conversations about Life, Star Trek, experiences behind the scenes and more.
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Monster Force Zero
Title: Monster Force Zero
Character: Host
Released: October 1, 2020
Type: Movie
A group of sci-fi cosplayers are granted superpowers and are transported into the multiverse to do real battle with evil alien forces bent on Earth's destruction.
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Title: Star Trek Day
Character: Self
Released: September 8, 2020
Type: TV
September 8th has long been informally observed as Star Trek Day, but beginning in 2020, CBS — first through CBS All Access and then through Paramount+— began hosting Star Trek Day celebrations.
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Alongside Night
Title: Alongside Night
Character: Major Chin
Released: January 1, 2014
Type: Movie
Alongside Night is the story of the final economic collapse of the United States as seen through the eyes of 16-year-old Elliot Vreeland, searching for his missing Nobel-laureate-economist father, and the mysterious teenage "Lorimer" whom Elliot meets in a black-market underground, whose own father might be the reason Elliot's father is missing.
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Acts of Violence
Title: Acts of Violence
Character: Todd
Released: May 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Doctor and dedicated husband embarks on a murderous quest for vengeance against the men who raped his wife.
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Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier
Title: Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier
Character: Self
Released: February 19, 2007
Type: Movie
This History Channel special examines Christie's 40th Anniversary auction of the franchise's most recognizable film and television memorabilia, and features interviews with cast, crew and fans.
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40 Years of Star Trek
Title: 40 Years of Star Trek
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
The Space Channel celebrates the 40th anniversary of the original STAR TREK. Produced by Mark Askwith, hosted by Jonathan Llyr and featuring interviews with George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, William Shatner, Peter David, Michael Okuda, Denise Okuda, F. Murray Abraham, Lawrence Montaigne, Leonard Nimoy, Garrett Wang, France Nuyen, Michael Reeve, George Clayton Johnson, Denise Crosby, Marc Scott Zicree, Garfield Reeves-Stevens, D.C. Fontana, Scott Bakula, Jolene Blalock, DeForest Kelley, LeVar Burton, Dr. Mae Jemison, Rob Salem, Walter Koenig, J.G. Hertzler, Dean Devlin, Harlan Ellison, Richard Arnold, Jeffrey Combs, Rick Berman, Bjo Trimble, Jim Lee, Alice Cooper, and Robert Picardo.
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Title: Into the West
Character: Chow-Ping Yen
Released: June 10, 2005
Type: TV
The lives of two families, one white American, one native American, become mingled through the momentous events of American expansion, between 1825 and 1890.
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Title: American Dad!
Character: Chinese Man (voice)
Released: February 6, 2005
Type: TV
The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three housemates: Father, husband, and breadwinner Stan Smith; his better half housewife, Francine Smith; their college-aged daughter, Hayley Smith; and their high-school-aged son, Steve Smith. Outside of the Smith family, there are three additional main characters, including Hayley's boyfriend turned husband, Jeff Fischer; the family's man-in-a-goldfish-body pet, Klaus; and most notably the family's zany alien, Roger, who is "full of masquerades, brazenness, and shocking antics."
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Survival Island
Title: Survival Island
Character: Paul
Released: June 14, 2002
Type: Movie
Teens trapped on an island are haunted by a demon hidden inside...a pinata.
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The Auteur Theory
Title: The Auteur Theory
Character: Mike Wong / God
Released: November 3, 1999
Type: Movie
At an absurdly self-indulgent student film festival, the directors of the (mostly terrible) short films start getting killed off one by one and a budding British documentary filmmaker decides to investigate.
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Star Trek: Voyager - Dark Frontier
Title: Star Trek: Voyager - Dark Frontier
Character: Harry Kim
Released: February 17, 1999
Type: Movie
Dark Frontier" is a feature length TV Movie of Star Trek: Voyager, the 15th and 16th episodes of the fifth season. This episode originally aired as a feature-length episode that was later broken up into two parts for reruns in syndication.
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Hundred Percent
Title: Hundred Percent
Character: Troy Tashima
Released: March 21, 1998
Type: Movie
Three Asian men live in L.A. Isaac is a romantic coffee shop worker, who waits for the woman of his dreams, and loses his balance after meeting a femme fatale called Thaise. Slim is a Rastafarian smoking pot all the time, who is trying to elude a local mobster. Troy is an actor, who has to choose between his career and his girlfriend.
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Ivory Tower
Title: Ivory Tower
Character: Mark
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
In the cutthroat environment of the computer industry, a young executive's passion, determination and integrity are put to the test.
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Flesh Suitcase
Title: Flesh Suitcase
Released: October 18, 1995
Type: Movie
The life of a drug mule.
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E! Inside Star Trek: Voyager
Title: E! Inside Star Trek: Voyager
Character: Himself
Released: March 19, 1995
Type: Movie
E! Inside Star Trek: Voyager is a documentary produced by the E! Entertainment Television channel which is now owned by NBCUniversal. It was hosted by Robert Duncan McNeill and aired on 19 March 1995 on E!. This 45 minutes documentary gives a behind the scenes look at the production on the first season of Star Trek: Voyager and interviews from the special effects department, the makeup department, the props department, and the costume department. It also includes several clips from Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, a look at script pronounciation guides, Trekker trivia, and headlines in Klingonese.
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Title: Star Trek: Voyager
Character: Harry Kim
Released: January 16, 1995
Type: TV
Pulled to the far side of the galaxy, where the Federation is 75 years away at maximum warp speed, a Starfleet ship must cooperate with Maquis rebels to find a way home.
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Launch of Star Trek: Voyager
Title: Launch of Star Trek: Voyager
Character: Himself
Released: January 12, 1995
Type: Movie
Launch of Star Trek: Voyager is a documentary which was broadcast on the Sci-Fi Channel in the US on 12 January 1995. It was hosted and narrated by Majel Barrett Roddenberry. The documentary also features some clips from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
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Star Trek: Voyager - Inside the New Adventure
Title: Star Trek: Voyager - Inside the New Adventure
Character: Self
Released: January 10, 1995
Type: Movie
Star Trek: Voyager – Inside the New Adventure was a special documentary, running for 50 minutes, produced by BECK-OLA Productions for broadcasting by UPN on 9 January 1995, the week prior to the premiere of Star Trek: Voyager. Hosted by Robert Picardo, the program went behind the scenes at the making of the pilot episode, "Caretaker", as well as the creation of the series itself. Segments included interviews with the cast and crew, as well as a "day-in-the-life" feature following Ethan Phillips during the filming of the Ocampa desert scenes.
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Title: All-American Girl
Character: Raymond Han
Released: September 14, 1994
Type: TV
All-American Girl is a 1994 ABC situation comedy starring Margaret Cho and featuring Jodi Long, Clyde Kusatsu, Amy Hill, B.D. Wong, and J.B. Quon as her Korean-American family. It is the second American sitcom centered on a person of Asian descent, namely Cho. Notable guest stars during the run of the show include Oprah Winfrey, Jack Black, David Cross, Ming-Na, Vicki Lawrence, Quentin Tarantino, Tsai Chin, Mariska Hargitay, Billy Burke, Robert Clohessy and Garrett Wang. Diedrich Bader was a one time regular in the last episode of All American Girl, which was a pseudo pilot for a proposed but unrealized version of All American Girl, before achieving fame on The Drew Carey Show. On the DVD commentary for the series, Margaret Cho revealed that most of All American Girl's set furniture was reused by The Drew Carey Show.
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To the Journey - Looking Back at Star Trek: Voyager
Title: To the Journey - Looking Back at Star Trek: Voyager
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
The documentary explores the legacy of Star Trek: Voyager (1995).