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Benedict Wong (born 3 July 1971) is an English actor. He began his career on stage before starring in the film Dirty Pretty Things (2002), which earned him a British Independent Film Award nomination, and the BBC sitcom 15 Storeys High (2002–2004). Roles followed this in the films On a Clear Day (2005), Sunshine, Grow Your Own (both 2007), and Moon (2009), the CBBC series Spirit Warriors (2010). Wong gained further recognition in the 2010s for his roles as Kublai Khan in the Netflix series Marco Polo (2014–2016), Bruce Ng in the film The Martian (2015), and Wong in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since the film Doctor Strange (2016). He has since starred in the Syfy series Deadly Class (2019). His performance in the film Nine Days(2020) earned him an Independent Spirit Award nomination. Since 2024, he has had a main role in the Netflix series 3 Body Problem and appeared in Weapons (2025). Description above from the Wikipedia article Benedict Wong, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Journey to the West' is an epic tale of the journey of the monk Xuanzang and is one of the most influential works in Chinese literature. It is a large, complicated text that incorporates various elements of Chinese folklore and storytelling which tells the story of Sun Wukong, a monkey who is born from a stone and learns the way of the Tao, a philosophy at the heart of Chinese religion, as well as mastering combat and learning the secret of immortality. The story ends with the Buddha, the central figure of the Buddhist religion, trapping Sun Wukong under a stone for five hundred years.
