Garrett Wang

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Garrett Richard Wang born December 15 1968 height 5 11 180 m is an American actor Wang is best known for his role in Star Trek Voyager as Ensign Harry Kim Early life Wang was born in Riverside California to Chinese immigrant parents who moved to Indiana and then to Bermuda Memphis Tennessee and then back to California He moved from Los Angeles to Las Vegas in 2008 Wang graduated from Harding Academy High School in Memphis Tennessee Wang then moved to Los Angeles to attend UCLA to major in premed He switched majors multiple times going from Biology to Political Science to History to Economics and finally Asian Studies with all his upper division electives in Theater Career Wang is best known for his role as Ensign Harry Kim on Voyager which ran from 1995 to 2001 He was keen to participate in a new role for the 2007 fan production Star Trek Of Gods and Men saying its always more challenging for an actor to play the bad guy Wang also made an appearance in the television series All American Girl episode SubmissionImpossible as Raymond Han In 2010 Wang was named the Director of the Trek Track for Dragon Con Wang recently participated at the Calgary Expo 2012 Comicon interviewing Stan Lee and being present at a booth among other exhibitors as well as being a surprise speaker at TNG Exposed Star Trek From early childhood on actor Garrett Wang was a science fiction fan in particular Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica Wang watched all the Star Trek films that came out in the theaters but never really got into Star Trek The Next Generation TNG prior to working on Voyager The first season one TNG episode he watched was Code of Honor which Garrett says is widely considered by all Trek writers to be the worst episode of Star Trek ever produced On three separate occasions in a span of a year and a half he tried to watch TNG again and it was always a repeat of Code of Honor Wang considers this a good thing as he believes if he was a huge fan of TNG he might have been so nervous during his auditions for Voyager that he might have ended up losing the role altogether