Golden Globes 2024: Ali Wong becomes first of Asian descent to bag Best Actress in a Limited Series

Ali Wong created history as she became the first woman of Asian descent to bag the Best Actress in a Limited Series award at the Golden Globes 2024, for her performance in the Netflix original Beef. Her co-star Steven Yeun also bagged the award for Best Actor in a Limited Series was the same show. 

Previously, the Golden Globes had a winner of Asian descent in 2018 when Darren Cross won Best Limited Series Lead (male or female) for The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. Earlier, in 1981, Yoko Shimada won the Best Actress in a Drama Series for Shōgun, becoming the first Asian woman to win an award for Television. 

On receiving the award, Wong thanked her ex-husband, “I really need to thank the father of my children and my best friend, Justin for all of your love and support. It’s because of you that I’m able to be a working mother."

Wong has previously starred in the rom-com Always Be My Maybe, and has been a voice artist for a number of animated shows. In Beef,  Amy Lau, a frustrated small business owner, who has a lot of repressed anger and who eventually takes it out on the road against Danny Cho (Yeun).