Alec Mapa, B. D. Wong, and Jamie H. J. Guan in M. Butterfly Martha Swope/The New York Public Library Digital Collections John Lithgow and B. D. Wong in M. Butterfly ...

When BD Wong asked his parents to lend him money to fly to New York for an audition for M. Butterfly he told them he was certain he would not get the job but he could not pass up the opportunity ...

Twenty-five years after he first played that scene, Wong, who was first billed as B.D. in the "M. Butterfly" program in order to smudge his gender, stood before the GLAAD audience and declared ...

Off the screen, Wong has won a Tony Award for his role in ‘M. Butterfly.’ He’s now the host of the new HLN series “Something’s Killing Me” premiering Sunday, August 13 at 9PM ET/PT.

BD Wong’s Broadway debut in “M. Butterfly” earned him all five major New York theater awards, including The tony award. He is the only actor ever to do so. On next week’s episode of ...

Ironically, Wong became a pioneer. In 1988, he won a slew of awards when he debuted in David Henry Hwang’s “M. Butterfly,” the story of a Chinese spy who poses as a woman in a 25-year ...

‘The mother,’ says Wong, who shot to fame on Broadway in the 1980s in ‘M. Butterfly’ and now appears in NBC’s ‘Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.’ Advertisement ...

BD Wong has made his mark as an actor on Broadway, winning a Tony for his performance in "M. Butterfly," on television with shows such as "Law and Order SVU," and in films that include "Jurassic ...

A Broadway veteran, Mr. Wong is still known for his Tony-Award-winning performance in “M. Butterfly ... “No, this is BD Wong,” as the woman customer’s voice became more insistent.

BD Wong gave up the idea that he could be a leading man long ago, at least in Hollywood. ... After his star-making turn as Song Liling in the controversial play M. Butterfly, ...