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The One and Only Benedict Wong
Spy. Scientist. Sorcerer Supreme. Finally, with 3 Body Problem, the actor plays someone like himself.
He went on to develop a robust filmography that was particularly rich with genre-centric roles; by the mid-2010s, he’d played space pilots, spies, and scientists, often landing smaller parts in films by Ridley Scott ( Prometheus, The Martian), Danny Boyle ( Sunshine), and Alex Garland ( Annihilation). Enter Netflix’s 3 Body Problem, an adaptation of Liu Cixin’s 2008 sci-fi novel, in which Wong plays Clarence Shi, a detective investigating the grisly deaths of scientists who becomes a key cog in humanity’s effort to confront the imminent threat of invading aliens. For a story that involves virtual reality, submicroscopic supercomputers, and billionaires colonizing stars, the series offers Wong a remarkably grounded character whose fictional biography draws heavily from his own: a father, a child of immigrants, a working-class bloke from the English north.
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