Garrett Wang

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Garrett Wang
File:Garrett Wang at FedCon 2013.jpg
Wang in 2013 at FedCon in Germany.
Born Garrett Richard Wang
(1968-12-15) December 15, 1968 (age 56)
Riverside, California, U.S.
Other names Wang Yi-chung[1] (王以瞻)[2]
Years active 1994-present

Garrett Richard Wang (Chinese: 王以瞻; pinyin: Wáng Yǐzhān) (born December 15, 1968) is an American actor. Wang is best known for his role in Star Trek: Voyager as Ensign Harry Kim.

Biography

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 Star Trek: 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."[3]

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 has participated in the Calgary Expo Comicon, in 2012 interviewing Stan Lee and being present at a booth among other exhibitors, as well as being a surprise speaker at TNG Exposed. In 2015 he interviewed Yaya Han and gave a solo discussion.

Star Trek

From early childhood on, actor Garrett Wang was a science fiction fan, in particular Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica.[4] 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. It was announced at Star Trek Las Vegas in 2014 that Wang would be reprising his role as Harry Kim in Delta Rising, the second expansion of the MMORPG, Star Trek Online.

Filmography

File:Garrett Wang at Calgary Expo 2015.jpg
Garrett Wang interacts with the audience at his panel at the Calgary Expo 2015.
Start Year Title Character Notes
1995 Star Trek: Voyager Ensign Harry Kim TV show 1995 to 2001
1995 Flesh Suitcase No Name
1995 Angry Cafe No Name
1998 Ivory Tower Mark Burton
1998 Hundred Percent Troy Tashima
1999 The Auteur Theory Mike Wong/God
2002 Demon Island Paul
2005 Into the West Chow-Ping Yen TV miniseries
2007 Star Trek: Of Gods and Men Garan
2009 Why Am I Doing This? Vic
2014 Star Trek: Axanar Klingon commander.[5]

Video Games

Year Title Role Notes
2002 Star Trek: Voyager Elite Force Ensign Harry Kim Voice role
2014 Star Trek Online Captain Harry Kim Voice role

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  4. ↑ Garrett Wang Reflects on Voyager, trekweb.com, February 22, 2004.
  5. ↑ Garrett Wang joins Axanar, kickstarter.com, August 17, 2014.
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