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My Take
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.
Overview
William 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 Witchblade and Jae Kim in the sci-fi series Bionic Woman. He has also appeared in the films Die Another Day (2002), Elektra (2005) and The Wolverine (2013).
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- 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
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 2 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- television actor / film actor / taekwondo athlete / voice actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- University of California, Berkeley
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-10
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.