Freddie Wong is an American

United States

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 filmmaker, musician

Musician

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, VFX

Visual effects

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 expert and e-Sports player

Electronic sports

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. He maintains two popular YouTube

YouTube

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 channels, freddiew and freddiew2. He is the older brother of fellow YouTuber Jimmy Wong

Jimmy Wong

Jimmy Wong is an American actor, musician, and filmmaker. He maintains the popular YouTube channel "jimmy". He is the younger brother of popular YouTuber Freddie Wong.- Biography :...

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Biography

Wong graduated from Lakeside School

Lakeside School

Lakeside School is a private/independent school located in the Haller Lake neighborhood at the north city limits of Seattle, Washington, USA, for grades 5–12....

. He then attended and graduated from the University of Southern California

University of Southern California

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 School of Cinematic Arts

USC School of Cinematic Arts

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. He now owns and runs Overcrank Media, a Los Angeles based media production company specializing in feature film and online video content, having produced an independent film titled Bear

Bear (film)

Bear is a natural horror Z movie directed by John Rebel and stars Patrick Scott Lewis and Katie Lowes. The film was released on June 4th 2010 in the United Kingdom.-Plot:...

. Wong met his future collaborator Brandon Laatsch in college. They have collaborated with various artists from Hollywood, and with many major Game Development Companies.

Notable Accomplishments

Wong competed in the World Series of Video Games

World Series of Video Games

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 in Dallas in July 2007. He won first prize in the Guitar Hero 2 competition, playing the song "Less Talk More Rokk" by Freezepop.

During MTV's "Gamer's Week" celebration in November 2007, Freddie appeared as a guest on Total Request Live

Total Request Live

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. Participating in the program with his newly-formed band Hellanor Brozevelt, Wong was part of a country-wide search to find the best Rock Band ensemble. After receiving tutelage from well-known rockers Good Charlotte

Good Charlotte

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, Brozevelt performed at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York against Chicago-based Carrie Me Home.

For the release of Rock Band, the band Hellanor Brozevelt was commissioned to play at the Best Buy in Hollywood, CA for the midnight release of the game.

Freddie Wong performed at the first (and only) YouTube Live

YouTube Live

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 in San Francisco on November 22, 2008.

He maintains his own YouTube channel, with a total of 449 million video views and over 2.4 million subscribers. He maintains the sixth most subscribed-to channel on YouTube. He has successfully attracted mainstream attention as well, with Andy Whitfield

Andy Whitfield

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 appearing in a Time Crisis

Time Crisis

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 tribute video, Kevin Pollak

Kevin Pollak

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 appearing in a Hypnotism stunt, Shenae Grimes

Shenae Grimes

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 in a romantic gun action scene, Ray William Johnson

Ray William Johnson

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 in a troll infestation video, Eliza Dushku

Eliza Dushku

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 appearing in an action scene, Jon Favreau

Jon Favreau

Jonathan Kolia "Jon" Favreau is an American actor, screenwriter, film director and comedian. As an actor, he is best known for his roles in Rudy, Swingers , Very Bad Things, and The Break-Up. His notable directorial efforts include Elf, Iron Man and its sequel, and Cowboys & Aliens...

 featuring in his video based on Cowboys & Aliens

Cowboys & Aliens

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and the glam metal band Steel Panther

Steel Panther

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 appearing in his video based on the Crossfire board game

Crossfire (board game)

Crossfire is a board game created by the Milton Bradley Company in 1971. The object of the game is to score goals by pushing one of the two pucks into the opposing player's goal. This task is accomplished by shooting small metal ball bearings at the pucks using the attached guns.The earliest...

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In 2010, he helped Joe Penna

Joe Penna

Joe Penna , known online as MysteryGuitarMan, is a Brazilian guitarist, animator, and filmmaker. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California.-YouTube:...

 (MysteryGuitarMan) shoot a commercial for McDonald's.

External links

• http://www.freddiew.com - Freddiew's Blog (official)
• New York Times article with a mis-captioned picture of Freddie.
• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3087799/
• http://www.youtube.com/user/freddiew - Freddiew's YouTube Channel (official)
• http://www.youtube.com/user/freddiew2 - Freddiew's Second YouTube Channel (official)
• http://www.facerocker.com - Freddiew's website - (official)