Ali Wong — Profile, Rankings & Fame Trend

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Updated 2026-05-29

She walked onto the Netflix stage eight months pregnant and turned a comedy special into a cultural reset—part of a run that would eventually stack two Emmys, three Golden Globes, and a place on Time's most influential list twice in four years.

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About

Alexandra Dawn Wong was born April 19, 1982. She wrote for Fresh Off the Boat in 2015, then became a cast member on American Housewife from 2016 to 2021. Her Netflix special Baby Cobra dropped in 2016, followed by Hard Knock Wife in 2018, both filmed while visibly pregnant. She wrote and starred in the romantic comedy Always Be My Maybe in 2019, and voiced characters on Tuca & Bertie and Big Mouth through the early 2020s. Don Wong arrived in 2022. The next year she starred in the dark comedy series Beef, winning two Primetime Emmys and a Golden Globe—the first Asian background woman to take a…

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In their own words

Sourced, dated quotes from Ali Wong

Ali Wong

said2022

I want to have it all. I want to have a family, a career, and a side piece.

— In Don Wong (2022) commenting on the disparity of public reaction to successful men having extramarital affairs versus women.

Ali Wong

saidundated

I was very dirty back then. Even now, I’ll look back on those days and think: ‘God, you were disgusting.

— An excerpt from her memoir Dear Girls… (as quoted in “'God, I was disgusting!' – Ali Wong on why women's bodies are the last taboo” in The

Ali Wong

saidundated

Maybe it’s because women feel they want to maintain some mystery that they’re not gross, to be more attractive or something. For me it’s all part of intimacy.

— On her views as to why women are reluctant to talk intimately about their bodies in “'God, I was disgusting!' – Ali Wong on why women's

Ali Wong

saidundated

I see kids and how young they really are and I cannot imagine them coming on a boat by themselves, going to another country to work and be separated from their parents.

— On writing about her family’s immigrant background in her memoir in in “'God, I was disgusting!' – Ali Wong on why women's bodies are the

Ali Wong

saidundated

I think [if you] consume mainstream pop culture and don’t activate a search for any other niche outlets then you can fall into this feeling that you are inferior.

— On how Asian-Americans might circumvent the feeling of being underrepresented in mainstream culture in in “'God, I was disgusting!' – Ali

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