B.D. Wong plays forensic psychiatrist Dr. George Huang on NBC’s Law and Order: Special Victims Unit. He is perhaps best known from his role as Father Ray Mukada, the compassionate and tireless Catholic Priest in the controversial HBO series Oz. His role on this breakthrough television drama as a humane spiritual figure in the desperate and inhumane world of a maximum security prison provided the actor with a stimulating platform for his diverse talent, as well as tremendous exposure and popularity with an audience that includes an intense college-aged crowd. He can also be seen as a recurring character on NBC’s Law and Order: Special Victim’s Unit, where he plays forensic psychiatrist Dr. Huang. He has guest-starred on such popular and diverse programs as the X-Files, Sesame Street and Chicago Hope, as well as appearing in the star studded HBO film And The Band Played On. In addition, he co-starred with comedian Margaret Cho on her series All-American Girl as a member of television's first Asian-American family when the situation comedy appeared for one season on ABC.

Wong made his Broadway debut in M. Butterfly, a play by David Henry Hwang. His performance, the breakthrough performance of that season, earned him the Outer Critic's Circle Award, Theatre World Award, Drama Desk Award, Clarence Derwent Award, and the coveted Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award. No other Broadway actor has won all five of these awards for a single role in one play. In addition to his substantial work Off-Broadway and in American regional theater, he starred in the critically acclaimed Broadway revival of the musical, You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown as the intellectual, blanket-dependent Linus. He also played the Reciter in Stephen Sondheim's musical, Pacific Overtures.

While Wong's television and theatrical credits are numerous, he is also equally accomplished in the medium of film. He has made more than twenty, among them Jurassic Park, The Freshman, The Ref, Executive Decision, Slappy and the Stinkers, and The Substitute II. But moviegoers will undoubtedly remember him most from his surprising work in four popular films as three extremely different men: the outrageous wedding coordinator's assistant, Howard Weinstein, opposite Martin Short in Father of the Bride (parts I and II), the quiet, intense and ambitious Tibetan foreign minister Ngawang Jigme, opposite Brad Pitt in Seven Years in Tibet, and as the voice of the powerful and heroic Captain Li Shang in Disney's animated blockbuster, Mulan.

In June 2003, Wong released his first book, Following Foo: The Electronic Adventures of the Chestnut Man, a memoir about the personal drama that he and partner Richie Jackson endured on their path to parenthood — involving a surrogate, an egg from Jackson’s sister and identical twins born 13 weeks prematurely and needing months of intensive care. Wong's email updates to close friends during this trying time provided the foundation for this moving and inspirational memoir.

Wong feels that living day to day in the trenches of his challenging career as an actor, (a vocation in an industry fraught with rejection and racism) has forced him to not only empower himself and his own self esteem, but it has caused him to be even more facile and articulate about the issues of racial self-image, race-based rejection, Asian-American parental pressure, and the "model minority myth" than he would be if he were a "civilian". He enjoys a second career traveling to colleges, universities, high schools, and at racial diversity, racism awareness, and educator's conferences to share his unique point of view. His retelling of his experience as a young man of color on the path to becoming a world class artist have made for interesting speaker's booking spanning different cultural departments (from Theater Arts to Asian Studies) at some schools. His remarks, All the World's a Stage..., tell his story of a path at first confused by racial self-hatred until his eventual racial acceptance and maturity, all the while aspiring to one of the most confidence challenging careers in anyone's book... that of the professional actor. This alternate career has brought the actor a great sense of satisfaction; a self-described 'ham', he enjoys infusing his remarks (and the subsequent answering of questions) with humor and dramatic readings.

While he does not necessarily consider himself an 'activist', Wong has received many awards not only for acting, but for his work as a prominent Asian American citizen, hoping to work toward the conquering of some of his community's unique challenges. Among the awards he has received are those from the East West PLayers Orgainization, the Asian-American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), the Association of Asian-Pacific American Artists (AAPAA), the Coro Foundation, the Chinese Performing Arts Foundation, the Asian AIDS Project, the Asian Pacific Council, The Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco, the Manhattan Borough Community College and the Crane House of Louisville, Kentucky.

B.D. Wong was born and raised in San Francisco, and currently divides his time between New York City and Los Angeles.