BD WONG, an American actor born on this date; Wong is a fourth generation Chinese-American, he made his Broadway debut in 1988 in M. Butterfly, for which he became and remains the only actor to win the five major theater prizes for the same role. 

Wong gained wide attention as a result of his Broadway debut in M. Butterfly opposite John Lithgow. The play won multiple awards, including several for Wong, who at that time ceased using his full name in favor of his initials. He has since ceased the use of punctuation in his initials. He is notable as the only actor to be honored with the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Clarence Derwent Award, and Theatre World Award for the same role. Which was still not enough for director David Cronenberg to cast him in the film version which was played by John Lone).

In addition to his stint on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as FBI psychiatrist Dr. George Huang, he has had recurring roles in All-American Girl and played Father Ray Mukada on all six seasons of Oz, with guest appearances on The X-Files and Sesame Street.

On the big screen, he has appeared in The Freshman, the 1991 remake of Father of the Bride and its 1995 sequel, Father of the Bride Part II, Jurassic Park, Executive Decision, and Slappy and the Stinkers. He also provided the voice of Captain Li Shang in Disney’s Mulan, its direct-to-video sequel, and the video game Kingdom Hearts II. He returned to Broadway as Linus in a revival of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, alongside Anthony Rapp, Roger Bart, and Kristin Chenoweth, and the 2004 revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures.

Wong starred with Margaret Cho in her much praised, quickly canceled series All American Girl, then played a priest on Oz, and Dr. George Huang, a psychiatrist, on NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

He and his former partner Richie Jackson, an agent (who married producer Jordan Roth in 2012) are parents of a son named Foo, the surviving one of twins born extremely prematurely. Wong wrote a book about the experience called Following Foo. He made his debut as a television director on Comedy Central’s “Awkwafina is Nora from Queens.”

Wong donates his time and resources to a number of LGBT and arts-related charities, such as the Ali Forney Center, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Materials for the Arts, and Rosie’s Theater Kids, of which he is also a board member.

In October 2018, Wong married Richert John Frederickson Schnorr, his partner of eight years, in Brooklyn, New York City.