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Wong may be any of the following:

Name[link]

• Wong (surname), a Cantonese and Hakka surname

Businesses[link]

• WONG (AM), a radio station (1150 AM) licensed to serve Canton, Mississippi
• Wong (supermarket), a supermarket chain in Peru, founded by Chinese-Peruvians
• Wong Fu Productions, Asian American filmmaking group
• Wong Kei, London Chinatown restaurant
• Wong Lo Gat herbal tea, a Chinese herbal tea
• Long Wong's, Arizona club
• Mister Wong, social bookmarking site

Music[link]

• Won-G Bruny (born 1978), Haitian rapper

Fictional characters[link]

• Wong (comics), Marvel Comics character and manservant to Doctor Strange
• Wong Leung, a character from the PlayStation 2 game The Bouncer
• Ada Wong, female character in the Resident Evil video game series
• Amy Wong, Futurama series character
• Brad Wong, character in Dead or Alive
• Maria Wong, character from the show Braceface
• Mr. Wong (James Lee Wong), fictional Chinese detective in a series of short stories published in Collier's and later in a series of films in the late 1930s and early '40s
• Mr. Wong, character in Coronation Street
• Mr. Wong (cartoon character), icebox.com character
• Nikki Wong, character from the show 6teen
• Stanford Wong, lead character in Lisa Yee's book Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time
• Characters from the Beyblade series:
  • Lee Wong
  • Mariah Wong
• Characters from the Digimon series:
  • Henry Wong or Lee Jiang-Liang
  • Suzie Wong (Digimon)

Places[link]

• Wong Chuk Hang, an area to the east of Aberdeen on Hong Kong Island
• Wong Chuk Hang Estate, a public housing estate in Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong
• Wong Chuk Hang Road, a major thoroughfare in southern Hong Kong
• Wong Chuk Hang Station, a proposed South Island Line rail station on Hong Kong
• Wong Chuk Kok Tsui, a cape in north east New Territories, Hong Kong
• Wong Chuk Yeung (Tai Po), a village in the Tai Po District of Hong Kong
• Wong Leng, section 9 of the Wilson trail in Pat Sin Leng Country Park, Hong Kong
• Wong Nai Chung Gap, a geographic gap in the middle of Hong Kong Island
• Wong Nai Chung Reservoir Park, a park in Wong Nai Chung Gap
• Wong Nai Chung Road, a major road in Happy Valley, Hong Kong
• Wong Nai Deun Tsuen, a village in the New Territories, Hong Kong
• Wong River, a river of Thailand
• Wong Shek, an area in the northern part of the Sai Kung Peninsula in Hong Kong
• Wong Shiu Chi Secondary School, a school in Tai Po, Hong Kong
• Wong Tai Sin, Hong Kong, an area in Wong Tai Sin District, Hong Kong
• Wong Tai Sin District, a district of Hong Kong
• Wong Tai Sin Temple, a famous shrine in Hong Kong
• Wong Uk Village, a village in the New Territories, Hong Kong

Other[link]

• Wong cilik, the general populace in the Javanese social hierarchy
• Wong, et al. vs. San Francisco Board of Education, et al., a lawsuit in the U.S. state of California
• Wong Fei Hung – Master of Kung Fu, a martial arts television series
• Wong Sun v. United States, a United States Supreme Court decision
• Wong Tai Sin, Chinese deity popular in Hong Kong associated with the power of healing
• "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium", an episode of the New Twilight Zone
• Jan Wong controversy, a 2006 Canadian media controversy
• The World of Suzie Wong, a 1957 novel, later adapted into a film of the same name
• To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, a 1995 American comedy film

See also[link]

• All pages beginning with "Wong"
• Huang (disambiguation)
• Wang (disambiguation)

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David Choi
Background information
Birth name	David Yong Choi
Born	(1986-03-22) March 22, 1986 (age 26) Anaheim, California, U.S.
Origin	Garden Grove, California, U.S.
Genres	Rock, pop rock, alternative, soul
Occupations	Singer-songwriter, musician
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, banjo, piano, violin, ukulele, mandolin
Years active	2000–present
Labels	Warner Chappell Music (left) Unsigned (present)
Associated acts	Wong Fu Productions Kina Grannis Ryan Higa Kevin Wu Chester See JR Aquino Shane Dawson
Website	David Choi Official Site

David Yong Choi (최데이비드용) (born March 22, 1986)^[1] is a Korean American musician and YouTube video producer living in Los Angeles.^[2] He performs a mix of original songs and covers of pop hits. Choi released his debut album, Only You, in October 2008.^[3] His second album, By My Side,^[4] was released on May 19, 2010. His songs and tracks have been heard on NBC, FOX, VH1, MTV, A&E, E!, Travel Channel, Style, PBS, Food Network, Disney, as well as in commercials internationally. He has worked with companies including Kelloggs, Starburst, the American Cancer Society, General Electric, YesStyle, Samsung, and J. C. Penney.^[5][6][7][8] On YouTube, he has over 900,000 subscribers, 102,000,000 total video views, and more than 13 million channel views. As of November 2011 he is YouTube's 15th most subscribed musician and 62nd most subscribed user overall.^[9][10] Choi worked as a songwriter and producer at Warner/Chappell Music, which signed him on after his participation in an American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) workshop.^[2] On February 21, 2009, he performed at the annual Kollaboration talent show.^[2]

His humorous song "YouTube, A Love Song" has received over 2.6 million views. The music videos for his singles Won't Even Start and That Girl, which are posted on both his and producers Wong Fu Productions' YouTube channels, has received a total of over 5 million views. He also posts non-music videos such as vlogs on his second channel. Choi often appears in online videos with fellow YouTube personalities, mostly playing a humorous character with a very straight face (his prominent trait). Some YouTube personalities, like Shane Dawson and Wong Fu Productions, often use Choi's music in their videos.

Early life and career[link]

Childhood and education[link]

David Choi was born in Anaheim, California on March 22, 1986. He is of Korean descent and comes from a musical family. His parents, Ray Choi and Jane Choi own a music store named "Grace Store" and his father plays the autoharp.^[11]

At a young age, David had to play piano and violin, which he did not particularly enjoy. However, he was concertmaster of his school orchestra.^[11] He never heard a pop song until he was in sixth grade, when he heard Smash Mouth's All Star. Soon he came across the song All the Small Things by Blink 182 and attempted to play it with the guitar. Choi stopped taking violin lessons in high school. In ninth grade, Choi began taking jazz piano lessons and began composing music. He entered a contest and submitted an instrumental pop song, and won his first award.

Start Of His Career (2002–2006)[link]

He started to compose his music digitally at first, with a program called Acid Pro. He learned how to use it himself a few days after downloading it.^[11] He learned a few songwriting tips from a friend named Judy.

In 2004, Choi won the grand prize in David Bowie’s Mashup contest. Appearing in USA Weekend Magazine with Usher, he received the grand prize for the magazine's John Lennon Songwriting Contest for teens.^[3] This marked the start of his musical career, at first as a staff songwriter/producer, when Warner Chappell Music signed him.^[11] In 2006, his humorous YouTube love song, entitled Youtube (A Love Song) was uploaded on December 30 that year, and brought him "overnight" fame. Since then he has been composing humorous songs, like "It's Rad To Pick Your Nose" and "I Think I Like You." "My Company" was also a half-humorous, half-love song. His YouTube love song, to his surprise, was posted on the homepage of the website. He stated in a blog post that he found out when a friend told him, "you're on the homepage."^[11] He soon received requests for new songs, a live performance and an album. He did want to release his songs in an album, but as he was a signed songwriter/producer at that time, he had to go through a lot of legal procedures and accept a lot of contractual conditions. Thus, he left Warner, and stayed unsigned so he could carry on with his album release.^[11]

Only You (2007–2008)[link]

David Choi released his first album in 2008 and it was entitled Only You. It contained mostly love songs, notably Love, Won't Even Start, Something To Believe and Only You. In 2009, David released a Korea Special edition of the album, containing three bonus tracks. Won't Even Start became his hit single, and he released a music video on it, collaborating with Wong Fu Productions in producing his first official music video. The album also bonded him with Korean fans, releasing a special Korean edition with three bonus tracks.

By My Side & That Girl (2009–2010)[link]

Within a space of half a year (4th Quarter 2009 to 1st Quarter 2010), David compiled composed songs into his sophomore album, which was released in 2010 on May 18, By My Side. He released a music video on the lead single "That Girl" that same date. The music video was produced by David Choi and his friends from production company Wong Fu Productions. He collaborated with them for the second time, the first being the music video on "Won't Even Start", and Julia Chang acted as 'that girl' alongside him.^[12] He also released a Korean edition, with two bonus tracks: Valentines and My Company.

Forever and Ever (2011–present)[link]

David sings "This And That" at the Esplanade in Singapore.

During his tours in 2011, David Choi sang two songs he wrote during 2010, "You Were My Friend" and "This and That is Life". He has blurted that a third album will include these two songs.^[13] On July 7, 2011, David released his third music video, for his single "By My Side", once again a collaboration with Wong Fu Productions. This music video features Jenny Ong.^[14] David also started to help his father, Ray Choi, in uploading YouTube videos of Ray playing the autoharp.^[15] His song "I Choose Happiness", of which the instrumental version is always used in KevJumba and Wong Fu Productions videos, was also chosen to be used in the 2011 film "Lucky". It was also featured in an episode of Make It or Break It David Choi announced that he is going to release his third album, "Forever and Ever" on October 25, 2011.

Tours[link]

Choi embarked on his first tour^[16] from November 12 to November 19, 2009. He sang live in the United States West Coast cities of San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle, as well as in Vancouver, Canada.^[17] In 2010 Choi embarked on his second tour singing live in the United States East Coast cities of Washington DC, New York, Boston, and Chicago as well as Toronto, Canada. The year after (2010) he visited the few cities again.

In August 2010, David Choi went to Singapore for vacation and tour. He was there for eleven days, one day being his vacation day where he went to Sentosa and Night Safari.^[18] In 2011, Choi went on a short tour around North America again, entitled "Spring Tour", this time including Houston, Chicago, and Hawaii. He also frequents Korea.

In the summer vacation of 2011, David announced another tour – this time his first continental tour (as he went around Southeast Asia), his Asia-Pacific Tour. He went to Hong Kong, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia and Australia. In Australia, David was supported by Australian acts Amelia Jae and Jayesslee. In Singapore, he had Inch Chua to do an introductory three songs and sing his and Kina Grannis' "My Time With You". Again, David went to small venues, like the Esplanade Recital Studio, which holds about 245 people.^[19]

David Choi at a concert.

Accompanying with tours, David also has meet-and-greet sessions, where he meets his fans.^[20]

In January 2012, David announced his Forever and Ever USA/Canada tour. All shows are all ages, with a full band, and a meet and greet session. For all shows, David is giving away pairs of Skunkjuice Earbuds to two lucky audience members. David's Forever and Ever tour will continue until April and tickets can be purchased on http://davidchoimusic.com/tour.

In May 2012, David started on his third tour to Asia-Pacific, Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, Jakarta, Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Seoul and Tokyo.

Style[link]

Genre and lyrics[link]

David Choi's music genre falls mostly under the modern "ballad" genre, with his songs being slow, and mostly about love, relationships, and break-ups.^[21] His songs have been described as "often to melt girls' hearts" and they really seem like oldies, in contrast with modern love songs like Dynamite, which often involve partying and rapping, or Bruno Mars songs, which don't really describe relationships. This is probably because David grew up listening to classical and jazz music.^[11] His songs are like sources of motivation, for example "Valentines", which encourage singles to wait.

Portrait[link]

For quite awhile David was portrayed by netizens and fans as a sad and solemn guy with a poker face, having not smiled for two years (2006–2008). He promised he would not smile until he reached 77,777 subscribers, a goal he accomplished.^[22] The tune and melody he uses in his songs are often happy melodies, for example "Something To Believe"^[23] and "My Time With You".^[24]

Discography[link]

• Only You (2008 – CD (digipak) and iTunes)
• Only You (Korea Special Edition) (2009 – CD; only for Korea +3 bonus tracks)
• By My Side (2010 – CD (digipak) and iTunes)
• YouTube Covers Volume 1 (2010 – iTunes exclusive)
• YouTube Covers Volume 2 (2010 – iTunes exclusive)
• By My Side (Korea Special Edition) (2010 – CD; only for Korea +2 bonus tracks)
• Forever and Ever (2011 [released on 25 October] – CD and iTunes)

In other media[link]

Songs in other media[link]

Filmography and TV appearances[link]

Awards and nominations[link]

See also[link]

• Notable YouTube users

References[link]

External links[link]

• David Choi official website
• David's primary's channel on YouTube

Wong Fu Productions
Wesley Chan, Philip Wang, and Ted Fu introduce their feature length film A Moment with You during a 2006 screening event at Cornell University.
Born	Wesley Chan (陳德偉[1]) (1984-04-27) April 27, 1984 (age 28) Ted Fu (傅大誠[1]) (1981-10-26) October 26, 1981 (age 30)[2] Philip Wang (王振翔[1]) (1984-10-28) October 28, 1984 (age 27)
Residence	Los Angeles, California
Alma mater	University of California, San Diego
Years active	2001–present
Website
http://www.wongfuproductions.com/

Wong Fu Productions^{[Note 1]} is a Chinese American^[1] filmmaking group composed of Wesley Chan (born April 27, 1984), Ted Fu (born October 26, 1981), and Philip Wang (born October 28, 1984).^[3][4] The trio met at the University of California, San Diego in 2004 and produced a number of music videos and short films released on their website and later YouTube before establishing a professional media company, Sketchbook Media, after their graduation. Their works have been featured at a number of national and international film festivals, including the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, San Diego Asian Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival.

As of April 2012, Wong Fu Productions' YouTube channel has over 1,100,000 subscribers and over 160 million upload views. ^[5]

History[link]

According to Philip Wang, Wong Fu Productions was unofficially established in 2001 during his high school junior year. Wang mainly utilized his family's digital camcorder to film school projects in collaboration with classmates.^[6] In his first year as an undeclared freshman at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Wang and his friends released a music video of Justin Timberlake's song "Señorita".^[7] It was the first music video produced by Wang and, although he did not actively promote it, the video was quickly circulated among other fellow college students.^[8] The video was circulated in its original computer file format because it was released prior to the advent of the video sharing website YouTube.^[9]

In 2004, Wang met classmates Wesley Chan (graduated from Mills High School in 2002) and Ted Fu through a school production, and the trio began working on small scale projects in their spare time and for class assignments.^[10] They did not originally consider filmmaking as a career when they entered university; Chan explored an interest in animation, Fu had been a student in electrical engineering and Wang considered a career in economics.^[11] After graduation in 2006, the three moved to the Los Angeles area and continued their venture under the professional name Sketchbook Media.^[4][11]

After approximately five years of hard work, Wong Fu Productions finally hit 1 million subscribers in 2011. The members, Phil Wang, Ted Fu and Wes Chan commemorated this achievement with a special video. During this 12-minute short, many familiar faces appear, including Ryan Higa, Dominic Sandoval (D-Trix), Kevin Wu (KevJumba), Freddie Wong, Brandon Laatsch, Joe Penna (MysteryGuitarMan) and the Fung Brothers.^[12]

Notable productions[link]

If at the end of the day there's someone out there who has a better day because of us, then we've succeeded.

—Wong Fu Productions motto^[10]

Wong Fu Productions was initially known for its independent music videos of contemporary hit songs such as Maroon 5's "Sunday Morning" and Jason Mraz's "I'm Yours".^[13] Wong Fu released its first major short film called Yellow Fever on January 25, 2006.^[14] The film, which satirized the topic of interracial dating between Asian Americans and White Americans, brought Wong Fu into recognition among many college students in the United States.^[8]

A Moment with You, the group's first feature-length film, premiered on June 3, 2006, at their alma mater.^[15] It was also screened at the San Diego Asian Film Festival on October 18, 2006. The film revolves around two neighbors who share similar romantic situations, in which one person in each relationship cannot let go of his or her past.^[16] "A Moment with You" was promoted through a screening tour at high schools and universities around the United States and Canada.^[8] In a review for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's student newspaper The Tech, Tina Ro wrote, "Despite its large Asian fan base, Wongfu's [sic] movie has a cast of equal numbers of Asians and Caucasians. Furthermore, all the characters were shaped by their own characteristics rather than by their race, a refreshing concept for a movie."^[17] According to The Daily Texan's Katherine Fan, A Moment with You featured a "more mature, introspective mood than their previous work."^[8]

Following the success of A Moment with You, Wong Fu was approached to create a second film called Sleep Shift. However, the project was abandoned after producers disagreed with casting an Asian male in the film's lead role.^[18] Since the end of its first tour, Wong Fu has created music videos for rising artists and continued producing short films.^[9] The group's merchandise line, which included original T-shirt designs, was launched in conjunction with the 2007 film Just a Nice Guy.^[19] The short film The Spare was featured at the 2008 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival,^[20] and two additional short films—At Musing's End and A Peace of Home—were shown at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival Short Films Corner.^[21] In September 2009, Wong Fu released the short film Poser!, a mockumentary on the history of the peace sign.^[22] As of November 2009, Wong Fu Productions has created more than 130 short films and music videos.^[18] Because the group does not require a fee to view its films, it gains a salary from being a YouTube partner, draws profits from merchandise sales, public speaking on university campuses, and music video production for rising Asian American artists.^[4]

On Sept 7, 2011, Wong Fu Productions announced that they have been hired by multiplatinum Taiwanese pop singer Wang Leehom to direct his upcoming music video "Still In Love With You".^[23]

International Secret Agents[link]

In the addition to the group's filmmaking career, Wong Fu Productions has organized a series of multidisciplinary concerts in California. The concert series, International Secret Agents (ISA), featured musical disciplines from urban dance to deejaying with Asian American guest artists such as Far East Movement. Additional guest performances included America's Best Dance Crew champions Quest Crew and Poreotics and Ryan Higa aka Nigahiga and Kevin Wu aka KevJumba and Jay Park and singers–songwriters David Choi and Kina Grannis.^[24] According to Chinese American rapper Jin, "ISA is about self-branding and viral marketing — using YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, and the Internet to promote yourself as an artist." He asserted, "We as artists are aware of this and make ourselves available [on these mediums]."^[25] Far East Movement member Virman Coquia said, "We want to give back to the community to show that Asians can have an influence today in the U.S." Additionally, Coquia believed that ISA presented the opportunity to present Asian American talent as cool and mainstream.^[24]

The first ISA concert was held in September 2008 at the San Gabriel Mission Playhouse in Los Angeles.^[26] A second concert was held in March 2009 at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, and both events were attended by a sold-out crowd.^[25] The concert returned to Los Angeles in September 2009 and was sponsored by department store J. C. Penney.^[21] In 2010, ISA was held in New York City for the first time. Wong Fu has also expressed interest in holding future ISA concerts in Washington, D.C. They also had another ISA concert in Los Angeles on September 5.^[18] Playing up the name "International Secret Agents," The LA leg of the 2010 ISA Concert was filled with surprises as secret guests like Nick Cannon showed up to join the performers on stage.^[27]

Impact[link]

Short films released by Wong Fu Productions have received, cumulatively, millions of views, and the group has several thousand fans.^[4] According to Wang, the group's website received 5,000 daily hits in 2009. He expected the audience size to grow "as online video becomes part of everyday life for the up-and-coming generation of movie-watchers" but believed that movie theaters will not become obsolete.^[28] University of Southern California digital media expert David Wertheimer also believed that "Wong Fu's use of new media to tell their community stories and build a business is the wave of the future."^[4] The group's success has allowed for growth in the popularity of Asian American comedians who promote themselves primarily through YouTube, such as Kevin Wu (KevJumba), Ryan Higa (Nigahiga), Christine Gambito (HappySlip), and David Choi.^[29] Although grateful for the group's success and popularity, Wang said, "Some people who go to film school, they'll make something great but it's only seen by like, two hundred people [...] It's kind of not fair."^[13]

In a feature by CNN, newscaster Ted Rowlands reported that Wong Fu's primary audience were "young Asian Americans who often can't find accurate depictions of themselves in mainstream media".^[4] Through its films, Wong Fu Productions hoped to break the different stereotypes of Asian Americans.

While we may not bring up [Asian Pacific American] issues in our work, we are not afraid to show that we are Asian. This is an issue in itself that we believe we're tackling head on. We want to show that APAs are just normal people, and shouldn't be stereotyped in the media and should have proper representation. We don't all do martial arts or have accents. We have stories that most everyone can relate to as human beings. We really want to show that our work and voice should and can be seen colorblind. The same way African Americans can now be accepted in the mainstream without a second guess, that's what we hope will someday be the case for APAs.

—Wong Fu Productions, Pacific Citizen^[9]

Despite this goal, Wong Fu's films were inspired by the members' life experiences rather than racial experiences. The group also does not promote political messages through their works but, rather, raises "many APA issues that we feel would fit our brand and image."^[9] They are often considered role models for Asian Americans aspiring to enter the entertainment industry.^[13] In response to this, group member Ted Fu said, "We actually didn't set out to be the 'heroes' of Asian Americans. It just happened by accident. But now that we're given this huge responsibility, almost, I feel like it's our duty to take it seriously."^[18] Wong Fu presented "one of the most antipicated workshops" on sustaining an independent production company at the 2008 Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association Midwest Conference.^[30] They were also the keynote speakers at the Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association 2010 West Coast Conference, which was hosted at their alma mater, UC San Diego.

In February 2012, the boys (Phil & Wes) flew over to Malaysia from Los Angeles for the first leg of their Southeast Asia Tour, meeting and greeting over 1000 fans. ^[31]They were also aired LIVE on HITZ fm, Malaysia's leading English-language station.^[32]

Notes[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Wong Fu Productions official website
• Wong Fu Store
• Wong Fu Productions's channel on YouTube
• Sketchbook Media official website
• [1] official interview

Freddie Wong
freddiew
Wong in October 2010
Date of birth	1985/1986 (age 26)[1][2]
Hometown	Seattle, Washington
Nationality	United States
Games	Guitar Hero 2, Portal 2

Freddie Wong is an American filmmaker, musician, VFX technician and e-Sports player. He maintains two popular YouTube channels, "freddiew" and "freddiew2". He is the older brother of fellow YouTuber Jimmy Wong.^[3][4]

Biography[link]

Wong graduated from Lakeside School.^[5] He then attended and graduated from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.^[5] Wong owns and manages Overcrank Media, a Los Angeles based media production company specializing in feature film and online video content, having produced an independent film titled Bear. Wong met his future collaborator Brandon Laatsch in college. They have collaborated with various Hollywood artists, and with video game development companies.

Notable accomplishments[link]

Wong competed in the World Series of Video Games in Dallas in July 2007. He won first prize in the Guitar Hero 2 competition, playing the song "Less Talk More Rokk" by Freezepop.^[6][7]

During MTV's "Gamer's Week" celebration in November 2007, Freddie appeared as a guest on Total Request Live.^[8] Participating in the program with his newly-formed band Hellanor Brozevelt, Wong was part of a country-wide search to find the best Rock Band ensemble. After receiving tutelage from well-known rockers Good Charlotte, Brozevelt performed at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York against Chicago-based Carrie Me Home.^{[citation needed]}

For the release of Rock Band, the band Hellanor Brozevelt was commissioned to play at the Best Buy in Hollywood, CA for the midnight release of the game.^[9]

Freddie Wong performed at the first (and only) YouTube Live in San Francisco on November 22, 2008.

He maintains two YouTube channels,^[10][11] with the main channel having a total of 611 million video views and over 3.1 million subscribers,^[12] and the second with 112 million video views and 0.9 million subscribers.^[13] Wong has successfully attracted mainstream attention as well, with Andy Whitfield appearing in a Time Crisis tribute video, Kevin Pollak appearing in a Hypnotism stunt, Shenae Grimes in a romantic gun action scene, Ray William Johnson in a troll infestation video, Eliza Dushku appearing in an action scene, Jon Favreau featuring in his video based on Cowboys & Aliens, and the glam metal band Steel Panther appearing in his video based on the Crossfire board game.

In 2010 he helped Joe Penna, known as MysteryGuitarMan on YouTube, shoot a commercial for McDonald's.^[14] In 2011 Wong produced, co-directed, and acted in a TV commercial for Battlefield 3 at the request of Electronic Arts.^[15][16]

Since 2011 he, along with his partners, has worked on the webseries Video Game High School, which began releasing episodes on May 10, 2012.

Filmography[link]

Notes[link]

Further reading[link]

• Slater, Grant (7 July 2007), "Mild-mannered gamers become rock stars for a day", Associated Press Newswires 
• Sperounes, Sandra (23 February 2008), "Internet phenomenon a Guitar Hero for hire", Winnipeg Free Press: p. c13 

External links[link]

Find more about Freddie Wong on Wikipedia's sister projects:
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• www.facerocker.com
• www.freddiew.com
• Freddie Wong on Twitter
• Freddie Wong on Facebook
• FreddieW's channel on YouTube
• freddiew2's channel on YouTube
• Freddie Wong at the Internet Movie Database

Eliza Dushku
Dushku at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival.
Born	Eliza Patricia Dushku (1980-12-30) December 30, 1980 (age 31) Watertown, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality	American, Albanian[1][2]
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1992–present
Partner	Rick Fox (2009–present)

Eliza Patricia Dushku ( /ˈdʊʃkuː/;^[3] born December 30, 1980) is an American actress known for her television roles, including recurring appearances as Faith on Buffy the Vampire Slayer^[4] and its spinoff series Angel. She starred in two Fox series, Tru Calling and Dollhouse.^[5] She is also known for her role in films including True Lies, The New Guy, Bring It On, Wrong Turn and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back,^[6] as well as her voice work on video games.

Early life[link]

Dushku was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, the daughter of Philip R. Dushku, an administrator and teacher in the Boston Public Schools, and Judith "Judy" (née Rasmussen), a political science professor.^[7] Dushku's father is Albanian and her mother is of Danish and English descent.^[8][9] Dushku attended Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill, and graduated from Watertown High School. She was raised in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the faith of her mother, though she is not practicing.^[10] She has three older brothers: Aaron, Benjamin (Ben), and Nathaniel (Nate). Her parents divorced when she was an infant.^[11]

Career[link]

Early career[link]

Dushku came to the attention of casting agents when she was 10. She was chosen in a five month search for the lead role of Alice in the film That Night. In 1993, Dushku landed a role as Pearl alongside Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio in This Boy's Life, a role that she said opened a lot of doors. The following year, she played the teenage daughter of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies. She had parts as Paul Reiser's daughter in Bye Bye Love, as Cindy Johnson in Race the Sun, and roles in a television movie and a short film.

Dushku took time off from acting to finish her junior and senior years of high school. She was accepted to the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and Suffolk University in Boston, where her mother serves as professor of government and previously served as dean of the campus in Dakar, Senegal.

Later roles[link]

Dushku at the 2009 San Diego Comic Con.

After completing high school, Dushku returned to acting with the role of Faith on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a Slayer much more troubled than the main character Buffy Summers. Though initially planned as a five episode role, the character became so popular that she stayed on for the whole third season and returned for a two-part appearance in season four, after which the remainder of her original story arc was played out as part of the first season of the Buffy spin-off series Angel. Repentant and rededicated, Faith returned as a heroine in other episodes of Angel and in the last five episodes of Buffy. Dushku was inundated with piles of fan mail from legions of prisoners. She said:

I've been getting fan mail from maximum security penitentiaries and death row. What are the authorities thinking of in playing a show with young teenage girls to Death Row inmates? They write everything – disgusting things that you don't even want to know about. And they send me pictures – "Oh, here's a picture of me before I was incarcerated!" – and there's some guy sat on the sofa with a bottle of beer and a moustache, and a big gut. It's so creepy. Way more creepy than Buffy.^[12]

In 2000, Dushku starred in the hit cheerleader comedy Bring It On.^[6] She followed that up with Soul Survivors,^[6] reuniting her with Race The Sun co-star Casey Affleck. One reviewer described the film as "84 minutes of everyone's wasted time".^[13] In 2001, she appeared in The New Guy with DJ Qualls and City by the Sea with Robert De Niro and James Franco.^[6] The latter film garnered attention from a wider adult audience and several good reviews. The same year, Kevin Smith invited Dushku to be a part of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.^[6]

In 2003, Dushku starred the horror film Wrong Turn,^[6] and The Kiss, an independent comedy-drama. Starting that same year, she starred in a new Fox TV series, Tru Calling, where she played the main character, medical student Tru Davies. After having a grant pulled out from under her, Tru is forced to take a job at a local morgue where she discovers her power to "re-live" the previous day over again if one of the deceased asks for her help to change what has happened. Dushku turned down a role in a spin-off of Buffy The Vampire Slayer which would have been about Faith. She has had many roles as a "bad girl" in movies and relishes the opportunities. In an interview with Maxim in May 2001, Dushku says of her roles, "It's easy to play a bad girl: You just do everything you've been told not to do, and you don't have to deal with the consequences, because it's only acting."^[10]

Dushku starred in an Off-Broadway production entitled Dog Sees God from December 2005, playing "Van's sister", a character paralleled with Lucy Van Pelt from the Peanuts comic strip on which the play production is based. She quit in February 2006 along with other members of the cast amidst rumors of abuse from the producer (which were later dismissed).

She played the lead character on Nurses, a hospital comedy/drama for Fox. This was the second Fox pilot in which she was cast, but not broadcast.^[14] She appeared in the Simple Plan music video, "I'm Just a Kid", as the band's love interest, as well as Nickelback's video for "Rockstar".

Dushku has roles in two video games. She voiced the role of Yumi Sawamura in the English language version of Yakuza for the PlayStation 2, which was published and developed by SEGA, and released in September 2006. Dushku also stars as Shaundi, one of the lead characters in Saints Row 2, which was developed by Volition and published by THQ.^[15] It was released in North America on October 14, 2008, for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. She was the voice talent for the role of Rubi Malone, the main character in the game WET. She appeared at Spike TV's 2008 Video Game Awards in December 2008.^[5]

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Tribeca Film Festival, April 2007

On October 1, 2005, she announced at Wizard World Boston that shooting had begun for Nobel Son in which she would star with Alan Rickman, Danny DeVito, Bill Pullman, and Peter Boyle. The movie was released at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival.^[16] Another project is On Broadway, an independent movie filmed in her native Boston. The movie is receiving great reviews^[17] and a few of them highlight Dushku's performance. It is shown in independent film festivals and has won six awards.