Brian Tee

Brian Tee is one of those actors who quietly built a career most people didn't notice until suddenly he was everywhere. Born in Okinawa, raised in the US, UC Berkeley grad — there's already an interesting story there before a single camera rolls. He bounced through smaller roles and action fare, including Tokyo Drift and a villain turn in Transformers: Age of Extinction, but honestly it was Chicago Med that let him actually act. As Dr. Ethan Choi, he got to be the stoic ER doc with real emotional range underneath, and he held his own through nine-plus seasons in a cast full of veterans. That's not nothing. He's never been the flashiest name on a poster, but he's the kind of steady, grounded presence that keeps a show watchable week after week, and for a kid from Okinawa who ended up at Berkeley and then Hollywood, that's a genuinely cool arc.

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Brian Tee is an American actor and producer born on March 15, 1977, in Okinawa City, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. He attended Glen A. Wilson High School and earned a degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He has built a career in both film and television, working as an actor and producer across multiple productions.

Name (English)

Brian Tee

Name (Japanese)

ブライアン・ティー

Reading

ぶらいあん・てぃー

Born

March 15, 1977 (age 49)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Snake

Origin

Okinawa City, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan

Height

183 cm

Active years

2000 -

Occupation

Actor / Film Actor / Television Actor / Film Producer / Producer

High school

Glen A. Wilson High School

University

University of California, Berkeley

Spouse

ミレリー・テイラー

• Official sitehttp://www.briantee.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/brian_tee/
• Xhttps://x.com/brian_tee
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q913132

Tags

• From Okinawa Prefecture
• Actor
• Film Actor
• Television Actor

Last updated

2026-08-26

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