Lee Byung-hun | |
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 Lee in November 2020 | |
| Born | July 12, 1970 Seoul, South Korea |
| Alma mater | Hanyang University |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1991–present |
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| Children | 2 |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 이병헌 |
| Hanja | 李炳憲 |
| Revised Romanization | I Byeongheon |
| McCune–Reischauer | I Pyŏnghŏn |
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Lee Byung-hun (Korean: 이병헌; born July 12, 1970[1]) is a South Korean actor. He has received praise 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); I Saw the Devil (2010); Masquerade (2012); and the television series Iris (2009) and Mr. Sunshine (2018). Inside Men (2015) won him the Best Actor prize at the three most prestigious South Korean award ceremonies: 52nd Baeksang Arts Awards, 37th Blue Dragon Film Awards and 53rd Grand Bell Awards. Lee has seven films—Joint Security Area, The Good, the Bad, the Weird, Masquerade, Inside Men, Master, Ashfall and The Man Standing Next—on the list of the highest-grossing films in South Korea. Lee was Gallup Korea's Actor of the Year in the Film division in 2012 and in the Television division in 2018.[2][3] In 2021, he appeared in a recurring role as the Front Man in the Netflix hit survival series Squid Game.
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 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.[4] 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 Byung-hun". m.koreanfilm.or.kr. Archived from the original on July 18, 2020. Retrieved July 16, 2020.
- ^ "Lee Byung-hun chosen as 'actor of 2012' in poll". The Korea Times. Yonhap News Agency. December 27, 2012. Archived from the original on June 11, 2021. Retrieved June 13, 2021.
- ^ Lee, Do-yeon (December 13, 2018). '미스터 션샤인' 이병헌·김태리, 올해를 빛낸 탤런트 1·2위 ['Mr. Sunshine' Lee Byung-hun and Kim Tae-ri ranked first and second in the talent that shined this year]. Yonhap News Agency (in Korean). Archived from the original on June 10, 2021. Retrieved June 13, 2021.
- ^ "Actor Lee Byung-hun, 3 other Koreans named new Academy members". The Korea Times. June 30, 2016. Archived from the original on October 12, 2019. Retrieved July 6, 2016.