Will Yun Lee

Will Yun Lee strikes me as the definition of a professional's professional. A taekwondo athlete who studied at Berkeley before turning to acting, he has spent decades doing the unglamorous work that keeps an industry running: Bond villainy, comic-book brawls in The Wolverine, steady television leads. What I respect most is the durability — Hollywood has not always been generous with roles for Asian American men, and he kept showing up, kept being good, and kept widening the lane for those behind him. The martial-arts discipline shows in his career as much as in his fight scenes. Some actors burn bright; he simply never goes out.

Name (English)

Will Yun Lee

Name (Japanese)

ウィル・ユン・リー

Reading

うぃる・ゆん・りー

Born

March 22, 1971 (age 55)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Boar

Origin

Arlington County, Virginia, United States

Height

2 cm

Occupation

television actor / film actor / taekwondo athlete / voice actor

University

University of California, Berkeley

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://www.willyunlee.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/WillYunLee
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A6%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC

Tags

• Virginia
• television actor
• film actor
• taekwondo athlete

Last updated

2026-06-10

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.