themahaffey.com<\/a>.<\/p>\nWong is an Emmy award-winning actress, comedian, writer, and producer known for her breakout Netflix stand-up specials \u201cBaby Cobra,\u201d \u201cHard Knock Wife,\u201d and the Emmy-nominated \u201cDon Wong.\u201d She released her fourth and latest Netflix comedy special, \u201cAli Wong: Single Lady,\u201d in October 2024. She received a Golden Globe Award for the special and was nominated for a Critics Choice TV Award and a Directors Guild of America Award. Wong recently directed Frankie Qui\u00f1ones\u2019 2025 stand up special for Hulu, \u201cFrankie Qui\u00f1ones: Damn That’s Crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n
In Spring 2023, Wong starred in and executive produced the Netflix and A24 dark comedy \u201cBeef\u201d opposite Steven Yeun. The series premiered in April 2023 to widespread acclaim, receiving eight Emmy Awards and 13 nominations. Wong\u2019s performance as Amy Lau earned her the Emmy, Golden Globe, Critics Choice, and Screen Actors Guild Awards for Best Actress in a Limited Series. For her acting work, she also won the Gotham and Independent Spirit Awards. \u201cBeef\u201d received that year\u2019s Emmy and Critics Choice Awards for Best Limited Series, won each of its nominated categories at the Golden Globes, and was honored by the American Film Institute in their Top Television Programs Of The Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG \u2014 Actress and comedian Ali Wong will take the stage on Saturday, April 4, 7 p.m.,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[93865,13426,8973,33133,596,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-204251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-ali-wong","tag-comedian","tag-comedy","tag-duke-energy-center-for-the-arts","tag-pinellas-county","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}