Benedict Wong has been a fixture of film and television for decades, but his journey to success was far from easy. The Salford-born actor, 54, first dipped his toe into acting through theatre, appearing as Mr Sulu in a 1994 West End production Star Trek : The Lost Voyage of the Enterprise . But after a decade in the business, he began to feel overlooked – what he describes as a "left on the shelf" moment, where "you either give up or fight back". His pivotal fight-back moment came with his breakthrough performance as Guo Yi in Stephen Frears' 2002 thriller Dirty Pretty Things , which earned him a British Independent Film Award nomination and marked a major turning point in his career.

Since then, Benedict has built an impressively varied filmography, from playing Mongol ruler Kubl

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