Lee Byung-hun (born August 13, 1970) is a South Korean actor and
singer. He has received critical acclaim for his work in a wide range
of genres, most notably Joint Security Area (2000); A Bittersweet Life
(2005); The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008); the television series
Iris (2009); I Saw the Devil (2010); and Masquerade (2012). His
critically acclaimed film Inside Men (2015) won him the Best Actor
prize in three prestigious award ceremonies: 52nd Baeksang Art Awards,
37th Blue Dragon Awards and 53rd Grand Bell Awards. Lee has five
filmsâ€"Joint Security Area, The Good, the Bad, the Weird, Masquerade,
Inside Men and Masterâ€"on the list of highest-grossing films in South
Korea.In the United States, he is known for portraying Storm Shadow in
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) and its sequel G.I. Joe:
Retaliation (2013), and starring alongside Bruce Willis in Red 2
(2013). He portrayed T-1000 in Terminator Genisys (2015) and Billy
Rocks, a knife-wielding gunslinger, in The Magnificent Seven (2016).
Lee was the first South Korean actor to present an Oscar at the annual
Academy Awards in Los Angeles and is a member of the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences. Lee and Ahn Sung-ki were the first South
Korean actors to imprint their hand and foot prints on the forecourt
of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles.Lee's career
began in 1991 after a KBS talent audition and making his debut in the
television drama Asphalt My Hometown. Lee drew attention with the
action drama Asphalt Man and romantic film The Harmonium in My Memory,
but it was only in 2000 that he made his big breakthrough with Park
Chan-wook's Joint Security Area. The film broke the box office record
and became the highest grossing Korean film at the time. Lee's role as
a border-guard soldier won him the Best Actor award at the Busan Film
Critics Awards.
singer. He has received critical acclaim for his work in a wide range
of genres, most notably Joint Security Area (2000); A Bittersweet Life
(2005); The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008); the television series
Iris (2009); I Saw the Devil (2010); and Masquerade (2012). His
critically acclaimed film Inside Men (2015) won him the Best Actor
prize in three prestigious award ceremonies: 52nd Baeksang Art Awards,
37th Blue Dragon Awards and 53rd Grand Bell Awards. Lee has five
filmsâ€"Joint Security Area, The Good, the Bad, the Weird, Masquerade,
Inside Men and Masterâ€"on the list of highest-grossing films in South
Korea.In the United States, he is known for portraying Storm Shadow in
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) and its sequel G.I. Joe:
Retaliation (2013), and starring alongside Bruce Willis in Red 2
(2013). He portrayed T-1000 in Terminator Genisys (2015) and Billy
Rocks, a knife-wielding gunslinger, in The Magnificent Seven (2016).
Lee was the first South Korean actor to present an Oscar at the annual
Academy Awards in Los Angeles and is a member of the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences. Lee and Ahn Sung-ki were the first South
Korean actors to imprint their hand and foot prints on the forecourt
of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles.Lee's career
began in 1991 after a KBS talent audition and making his debut in the
television drama Asphalt My Hometown. Lee drew attention with the
action drama Asphalt Man and romantic film The Harmonium in My Memory,
but it was only in 2000 that he made his big breakthrough with Park
Chan-wook's Joint Security Area. The film broke the box office record
and became the highest grossing Korean film at the time. Lee's role as
a border-guard soldier won him the Best Actor award at the Busan Film
Critics Awards.
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