Early life

Ken Leung was born in New York City and initially raised in the Two Bridges section of the Lower East Side of Manhattan. His family moved to Midwood, Brooklyn, where he grew up before finishing high school in Old Bridge, New Jersey.

Leung later attended New York University (NYU) as a University Scholar. He discovered acting in his junior year, when he studied acting with Catherine Russell and Nan Smithner, and then briefly with Anne Jackson at HB Studio. During this time he acted mostly in downtown spaces and black box theaters, working with groups such as the Ma-Yi Theater Company, New Perspectives, and STAR, a traveling group of actors-educators based at Mount Sinai Hospital.

Career

In 1997, Leung made his debut as the villainous henchman Sang in Brett Ratner's Rush Hour. Ratner stated, "'s a great actor. In my opinion, he's equivalent to Philip Seymour Hoffman as far as talent is concerned." He would later work with Ratner in the films Red Dragon, The Family Man, and X-Men: The Last Stand. Edward Norton cast Leung in his directorial debut Keeping the Faith in 2000. According to The Washington Post, Norton said Leung's "showstopping performance...turned a throwaway scene into one of the film's best." Impressed with his acting skills, Norton said that Leung would be appropriate for a role in Hamlet or Osborne's Look Back in Anger: "You sense hidden levels within him and he conveys an intensity of mind. I don't think anybody's tapped his full range yet." Additionally, Leung has appeared in several independent and television films, as well as features, including four films with Brett Ratner and two with Spike Lee. In 1998, he played James the Less and God in Terrence McNally's passion play, Corpus Christi, and in 2002 made his Broadway debut in the musical Thoroughly Modern Millie (also appearing on the cast recording).

In 2007, he starred in the independent film Shanghai Kiss with Hayden Panettiere, and earned a Special Mention at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. That same year he guest-starred in the final season of the HBO drama series The Sopranos. He followed this with the ABC drama Lost as Miles Straume from the series' fourth season through the rest of its run.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Pictures of Baby Jane Doe	Shopkeeper
	Welcome to the Dollhouse	Barry
1997	Red Corner	Peng
	Kundun	(voice)
1998	Fly	Jeremy Kim
	Rush Hour	Sang
1999	Man of the Century	Mike Ramsey
2000	Keeping the Faith	Don
	Maze	Dr. Mikao
	The Family Man	Sam Wong the Deli Clerk
2001	A.I. Artificial Intelligence	Syatyoo-Sama
	Home Sweet Hoboken
	Spy Game	Li
	Vanilla Sky	Art Editor
2002	Face	Willie
	Red Dragon	Lloyd Bowman
2004	Saw	Detective Steven Sing
	Strip Search	Liu Tsung-Yuan	television film
	Sucker Free City	Lincoln Ma
2005	Hate	Mo
	The Squid and the Whale	School Therapist
2006	Inside Man	Wing
	X-Men: The Last Stand	Kid Omega
2007	Year of the Fish	Johnny
	Shanghai Kiss	Liam Liu	Received a Special Mention at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival for his breakthrough performance.
	Falling for Grace	Ming
2008	Saw V	Detective Steven Sing	Cameo
2009	Works of Art	John Kim
2015	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	Admiral Statura

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995, 2000, 2002	Law & Order	Chung; Tommy Wong; Stephen Wong
1997	New York Undercover	David Kwan	Episode: "Vendetta"
2000	Wonderland		Episode: "Spell Check"
	Deadline	Fung	Episode: "Pilot"
2001	Oz	Bian Yixue	Episode: "Conversions"
2004	The Jury	Ken Arata	Episode: "Memories"
	Whoopi	Terrence	Episode: "Identity Crisis"
2007	The Sopranos	Carter Chong	Episode: "Remember When"
2008-2010	Lost	Miles Straume	Series regular; 45 episodes
2011	The Good Wife	Shen Yuan	Episode: "Great Firewall"
2012-2013	Person of Interest	Leon Tao	Recurring character: Episodes "The Contingency," "Critical," "Relevance," "All In"
2013	Zero Hour	Father Reggie
	Deception	Donald Cheng
2014-Present	The Night Shift	Topher Zia

[ Source: Wikipedia ]