Ben Wang

Overview

Ben Wang is an American actor, born in Beijing in 1997 and raised in Northfield, Minnesota. He studied musical theater at New York University. His first big break on screen was a guest role on MacGyver in 2021. In 2023 he led the Disney+ series American Born Chinese as high schooler Jin Wang, based on Gene Luen Yang’s graphic novel, and played Bo in the Disney+ basketball comedy Chang Can Dunk. He also appeared in the 2024 Mean Girls musical film. In 2025 he took the lead role of Li Fong in Karate Kid: Legends opposite Jackie Chan and Ralph Macchio, and was named a Star of Tomorrow at CinemaCon’s Big Screen Achievement Awards ahead of its release. He also appeared in Francis Lawrence’s Stephen King adaptation The Long Walk. He plays District 12 tribute Wyatt Callow in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, and is set for the final season of Apple TV’s For All Mankind. In November 2026, Deadline reported that he was in talks to play Iceman in Marvel Studios’ X-Men.

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Last updated November 2, 2026