Ali Wong

About

Stand-up comic and actress with a Netflix special called Baby Cobra. She was a series regular in Are You There, Chelsea? and Black Box, and later joined the reboot of VH1's Best Week Ever. She then starred in ABC's American Housewife and voiced one of the title characters in the animated series Tuca & Bertie. She co-wrote and starred in the film Always Be My Maybe in 2019.

Before Fame

She was the student body class president at San Francisco University High School before graduating summa cum laude from UCLA with a degree in Asian American studies. She was a member of Lapu, the Coyote that Cares Theatre Company at UCLA. 

Trivia

She was named by Variety as one of the "10 Comics to Watch" in 2011. She joined the writing team of Fresh Off the Boat.  She starred in the 2023 Netflix hit Beef.

Family Life

She is the youngest of four kids born to an anesthesiologist Adolphus and Tammy Wong. She married Justin Hakuta in 2014; they welcomed a daughter in November of 2015. She filmed Baby Cobra when she was seven months pregnant. She and her husband divorced in late 2023. She later began dating Bill Hader. 

Associated With

She has been a recurring guest on the Comedy Central sketch series Inside Amy Schumer.