Lee Byung-hun
South Korean actor, singer, and model celebrated across Korean cinema and Hollywood for a career spanning more than three decades.
Lee Byung-hun - Personal Information
- Name: Lee Byung-hun
- Date of Birth: July 12, 1970
- Place of Birth: Seongnam, Gyeonggi, South Korea
- Gender: Male
- Job Title: Actor
- Crew Jobs: Producer
Biography
Lee Byung-hun (이병헌; born July 12, 1970) is a South Korean actor, singer and model. He has received 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); I Saw the Devil (2010); Masquerade (2012); Inside Men (2015); The Man Standing Next (2020); and the television series All In (2003), Iris (2009), Mr. Sunshine (2018), and Our Blues (2022). He has received multiple awards and nominations throughout his career.
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). His other notable Hollywood films include Red 2 (2013), Terminator Genisys (2015), and The Magnificent Seven (2016). He also appeared as the Front Man in Netflix hit survival series Squid Game (2021–2025).
Selected Filmography
A selection of Lee Byung-hun's most recent screen appearances across film and television.
- New Old Boy : Dir. Park (TV - 2025) as Self
- No Other Choice (2025) as Yoo Man-su
- Squid Game in Conversation (2025) as Self
- KPop Demon Hunters (2025) as Gwi-Ma (voice)
- Netflix Tudum 2025 (2025) as Self
- The Match (2025) as Cho Hoon-hyun
- Squid Game: Making Season 2 (2025) as Self
- BSK 25th Anniversary Concert Film : The Journey (2024) as Narrator (voice)
- Hot Ones Versus (TV - 2024) as Self
- Concrete Utopia (2023) as Yeong-tak
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