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About Ali Wong

Alexandra Dawn Wong was born April 19, 1982 in San Francisco, the youngest of four siblings, raised in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of the city by her American-born Chinese father — an anesthesiologist who emigrated from Hokkien-speaking parents in the Philippines — and her Vietnamese-American mother, who emigrated from Huế in the wave following the fall of Saigon. The cultural specifics matter to the act: the bilingual Vietnamese-and-English household, the San Francisco Chinatown grandmother, the boarding-school years at the all-girls San Francisco University High School, the Asian-American academic-achievement framing that runs through every special, and the eventual UCLA undergraduate degree in Asian American Studies are not flourishes — they are the literal source code of the on-stage persona. She graduated from UCLA in 2005, moved to New York to chase open-mics at the Comic Strip Live and the Comedy Cellar's Olive Tree Café, and worked the East Coast club circuit through her mid-twenties, performing nine sets a night across multiple Manhattan rooms during the grind years. She moved back to Los Angeles in the late 2000s and broke through writing for Are You There, Chelsea? on NBC in 2011 and then American Housewife and Black Box across the early 2010s. Fresh Off the Boat — the ABC sitcom about a Taiwanese-American family in Orlando — hired her into the writers' room from 2014 to 2015, the credit that anchored the comedy-television resume before the stand-up specials became the center of gravity. Baby Cobra on Netflix in May 2016 was the inflection point: filmed at the Neptune Theatre in Seattle, seven-and-a-half months pregnant with her first daughter Mari, the special's framing of pregnancy, ambition, marriage, and the practical math of being a working mother became a defining text of the streaming-era stand-up boom. Hard Knock Wife followed in May 2018, filmed at the Winnipeg Comedy Festival's Centennial Concert Hall, seven months pregnant with her second daughter Nikki. The marriage to Justin Hakuta — the Harvard Business School graduate son of inventor and television personality Ken Hakuta — anchored both specials and the running 'married up' joke about a husband with a Harvard MBA and a Filipino-Japanese background; the couple separated in April 2022 and finalized their divorce in early 2023. Don Wong on Netflix in February 2022 — filmed at New York's Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall — ran the post-separation reset directly into the act, with frank sexual material, the open-marriage years, and the touring-comedian-as-single-mother arithmetic. Beef on Netflix in April 2023 — the Lee Sung Jin-created limited series opposite Steven Yeun — delivered the prestige drama turn: Best Limited Series at the Emmys, Best Actress for Wong, Golden Globe wins, SAG wins, eight Primetime Emmys across the run. Single Lady on Netflix in 2024 — filmed at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles in a fitted black cocktail dress, freshly divorced, working the dating-app years — closed the Don Wong arc and reset the persona for the post-marriage tour cycle. Film and animated voice credits stack around the stand-up: Always Be My Maybe with Randall Park on Netflix in 2019, Tuca & Bertie opposite Tiffany Haddish on Adult Swim, Big Mouth as Ali, Birds of Prey, Inside Out 2 as Joy's emotion, Paper Girls, and the live-action American Born Chinese on Disney+ as the Guanyin. The relationship with Bill Hader, the SNL alum and Barry creator, became public in late 2022 and has been steady through every special and tour cycle since.

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