Garrett Richard Wang (Chinese name pinyin: Wáng Yǐzhān) (born December 15, 1968) is a Chinese American actor. Wang is best known for his role in Star Trek: Voyager as Ensign Harry Kim. Wang was born in Riverside, California, to Chinese immigrant parents who moved to Indiana and then to Bermuda. He has a sister named Laura and a cousin named John Kao.
Wang graduated from Harding Academy High School in Memphis, Tennessee. Wang then moved to Los Angeles to attend UCLA to study Asian culture where he was encouraged by a professor to study theatre.
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, “it’s always more challenging for an actor to play a bad guy.”
Wang also made an appearance in the television series All American Girl episode “Submission:Impossible” #1.2 as Raymond Han. (He also dated the show’s star Margaret Cho for a time.)
Wang has repeatedly stated that he intends to pursue other projects outside of acting because, as he said in a 2005 interview with Esquire, “sometimes talent does not measure up to ambition, so you have to seek alternative options.”
Wang is also briefly seen in Rage Against the Machine’s music video “Sleep Now in the Fire”.