Age: 52
Birthplace: Arlington, Virginia, U.S.

Will Yun Lee (born March 22, 1971) is an American actor and martial artist. He is best known for his roles as Danny Woo in the supernatural drama series Witchblade and Jae Kim in the science fiction drama series Bionic Woman. Lee has also portrayed notable roles in the films Die Another Day (2002), Elektra (2005), and The Wolverine (2013).
Lee plays a recurring role as Sang Min in the police drama series Hawaii Five-0, and has also voiced Wei Shen, the protagonist of the video game Sleeping Dogs (2012).
Lee was born in Arlington, Virginia to Korean parents.[1] His parents are mother Jing Ja Lee and father Soo Woong Lee, a Taekwondo grandmaster.[2] He first began training at just three years old and spent a portion of his youth teaching at Lee's Tae Kwon Do training facility, his family's business in Napa, California. Lee attended UC Berkeley with a full athletic scholarship to study political science and ethnic studies.[3]Will Yun Lee had supporting roles in high-profile films such as Die Another Day, Torque, The King of Fighters and Elektra. He has also acted on FX Network's mini-series Thief and ABC Family's TV movie Mini-series Fallen. He recently guest starred in Hawaii Five-0 as recurring character "Sang Min", and in True Blood as "Mr. Gus". He also played Kenuichio Harada in James Mangold's The Wolverine (2013).[4]
He provides the voice of the protagonist in Square Enix's Hong Kong open-world crime game, Sleeping Dogs as undercover cop Wei Shen.
Lee on the cover of KoreAm in 2007In 2002 he was named by People as one of their "50 Most Beautiful People", which quickly led to high-profile roles. In November 2007, he was again recognized by People, this time as one of the members of their list of the 15 "Sexiest Men Alive".[5]
Will Yun Lee is among the actors, producers and directors interviewed in the 2006 documentary The Slanted Screen, directed by Jeff Adachi, about the representation of Asian and Asian American men in Hollywood. He was in the music video of Mariah Carey's "Boy (I Need You)" as well as Ice Cube's "Roll Call".
In October 2010, Lee married actress Jennifer Birmingham in Shreveport, Louisiana.[6] Their son was born in June 2013.[7]
Film | |||
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Year | Film | Role | Notes |
2000 | Gung Fu: The New Dragon | Danny | |
What's Cooking? | Jimmy Nguyen | ||
2002 | Die Another Day | Colonel Tan-Sun Moon | |
Four Reasons | Buddha | Direct-to-video | |
2004 | Torque | Val | |
2005 | Elektra | Kirigi | |
2005 | The Seed | Ken Marcado | |
2007 | Hers | Lucas | |
2008 | 6th and Santa Fe | Short film | |
2010 | The King of Fighters | Iori Yagami | |
2011 | Where the Road Meets the Sun | Takashi | |
Setup | Joey | ||
Five Star Day | Samuel Kim | ||
Oka! | Yi | ||
2012 | Total Recall | Marek | |
Red Dawn | Captain Cho | ||
2013 | Superman: Unbound | Parasoldier Leader | Voice role Direct-to-video |
Make Your Move 3D | Kaz | ||
Lost for Words | Stanford | ||
The Wolverine | Kenuichio Harada | ||
Four Assassins | Marcus | ||
2015 | Spy | Timothy Cress | |
Power/Rangers | General Klank | Short film | |
San Andreas | Dr. Kim Park | ||
2016 | Restored Me | Trevor Kang | |
She Has a Name | Akkarat | ||
2017 | Unspoken: Diary of an Assassin | ||
2018 | Bangkok Love Story | ||
Canal Street | Officer Hank Chu | ||
Adi Shankar's Gods and Secrets | |||
Rampage | Agent Park |
Television | |||
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Year | Film | Role | Notes |
1997 | Nash Bridges | Quick | Episode: "Gun Play" |
1998 | Profiler | Andrew Young | Episode: "Ties That Bind" |
Brimstone | Roger | Episode: "Poem" | |
1999 | V.I.P. | Bobby Wu | Episode: "Mao Better Blues" |
The Disciples | Yoyo Lee | TV movie | |
2000 | Witchblade | Danny Woo | TV movie |
2001 | The Agency | Sam | Episode: "The Year of Living Dangerously" |
2001-2002 | Witchblade | Detective Danny Woo | 23 episodes |
2002 | Face | Daniel | |
2003 | 10-8: Officers on Duty | Detective Danny Chang | Episode: "Let It Bleed" |
2004 | Threat Matrix | Danny Roh | Episode: "PPX" |
Law & Order | Hiroji Yoshida | Episode: "Gaijin" | |
10-8: Officers on Duty | Detective Danny Chang | Episode: "Love Don't Love Nobody" | |
2006 | Thief | Vincent Chan | Miniseries |
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Dennis Kim | Episode: "Time of Your Death" | |
Tsunami: The Aftermath | Chai | Miniseries | |
2007 | Hustle | Shiro | Episode: "Conning the Artists" |
Fallen | Mazarin | 4 episodes | |
Bionic Woman | Jae Kim | 7 episodes | |
2008 | Finnegan | Taki | TV movie |
2010 | Boston's Finest | Eddie Lao | TV movie |
2010-2017 | Hawaii Five-0 | Sang Min | 11 episodes |
2014 | The Novice | The Big Bang | TV movie |
True Blood | Mr. Gus | 5 episodes | |
Intelligence | Jin Cong | 2 episodes | |
2015 | Strike Back: Legacy | Kwon | 5 episodes |
Dr. Ken | Kevin O'Connell | Episode: "Kevin O'Connell" | |
The Player | Liu Zeng | Episode: "House Rules" | |
Warrior | Susano | ||
2016-2018 | Falling Water[8] | Taka | Main role |
2018 | Altered Carbon | Takeshi Kovacs | 4 episodes |
2018 | The Good Doctor | Dr. Alex Park | Recurring (Season 1), Main (Season 2) |
Video Games | |||
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Year | Title | Role | Notes |
2011 | Saints Row: The Third | Pedestrian and Character Voices | Voice role |
2012 | The Amazing Spider-Man | Additional Voices | Voice role |
Infex | IngenBio Guard | Voice role | |
Sleeping Dogs | Wei Shen | Voice role | |
Sleeping Dogs: Nightmare in North Point | Wei Shen | Voice role | |
Sleeping Dogs: Zodiac Tournament | Wei Shen | Voice role | |
2013 | Sleeping Dogs: Year of the Snake | Wei Shen | Voice role |
Saints Row IV | The Voices of Virtual Steelport | Voice role | |
2015 | Mortal Kombat X | Kung Lao | Voice role [9][10] |
[ Source: Wikipedia ]