Birthdate: Jan 1, 2000
Birthplace: Shanghai, China
Ben Wang (birthname: Benjamin Wang) first made an impression as an actor on a range of television series from MacGyver (2021) to American Born Chinese (2023), on which he was the lead, and then made his feature acting debut in a supporting role in director/co-writer Andrew Hyatt’s biopic, Sight (2023), co-starring Terry Chen and Greg Kinnear, with Wai Ching Ho and Fionnula Flanagan, and released to $7 million return by Angel Studios.
Wang was cast for writer/creator/producer/actor Tina Fey’s movie version of Jeff Richmond’s and Nell Benjamin’s stage musical, Mean Girls (2024), with the ensemble of Angourie Rice, Renee Rapp, Auli’i Cravalho, Jenna Fischer, Busy Phillips and Tim Meadows under Samantha Jayne’s and Arturo Perez Jr.’s co-direction and scoring a solid $105 million gross for Paramount Pictures.
Wang landed his first co-starring role in the highly anticipated and long-delayed sequel, Karate Kid: Legends (2025), co-starring Jackie Chan, Ralph Macchio, Joshua Jackson, and Ming-Na Wen under Jonathan Entwistle’s direction, and which was produced by Columbia Pictures/Sunswept Entertainment and released by Sony Pictures Releasing.
Wang joined the cast of director/writer Thomas Percy Kim’s Korean-American indie film premiering at the San Francisco Film Festival, Isle Child (2025), and then Wang was cast as part of the ensemble of director/producer Francis Lawrence’s dystopian Stephen King adaptation written by JT Mollner, The Long Walk (2025)—which had been considered for a big-screen version by George Romero as early as 1988 and attached to multiple directors—co-starring Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Mark Hamill, Garrett Wareing, Charlie Plummer and Judy Greer, and released by Lionsgate.
Ben Wang was born in Shanghai, China, and raised in Shanghai by his mother and father, who divorced when he was four years old. Wang emigrated to the U.S. with his mother when he was six years old, and was raised in Northfield, Minnesota, by his mother and his maternal grandparents. Wang attended the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, from which he graduated with a degree in musical theater. Wang’s height is 5’ 5”.
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Filmmaker on the Side: Ben Wang has not only been an actor, but has also made two short films as director/writer: Walter and France (2021) and Happy New Year, Jamie Morgenstern (2023).
Multilingual, Multi-Martial: Wang is fluent in English and Mandarin, and has mastered such martial arts as Taekwondo, Kumdo, the Wing Chun style of Kung Fu, Kenpo and Karate.
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