Lee Byung-hun

Lee Byung-hun
At the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival in Ontario, Canada
Born	(1970-07-12) July 12, 1970 (age 46) Namhansanseong-myeon, Gwangju County, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea (now Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea)
Nationality	South Korean
Occupation	Actor, model, singer
Agent	BH Entertainment
Spouse(s)	Lee Min-jung
Children	1
Website	www.leebyunghun.kr
Korean name
Hangul
Hanja
Revised Romanization	I Byeongheon
McCune–Reischauer	Ri Pyŏnghŏn

Lee Byung-hun (Korean: 이병헌; born July 12, 1970 ) is a South Korean actor, singer and model. He has received critical 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); the television series Iris (2009); I Saw the Devil (2010); and Masquerade (2012). His critically acclaimed film Inside Men (2015) won him the best actor prize in three prestigious award ceremonies: 52nd Paeksang Art Awards, 37th Blue Dragon Awards and 53rd Grand Bell Awards—a feat that was unbroken since Choi Min Sik (Oldboy) in 2004. Lee has starred in four films—Masquerade; Inside Men; Joint Security Area; and The Good, the Bad, the Weird—on the list of highest-grossing films in South Korea.

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 a T-1000 in Terminator Genisys (2015). In 2016, Lee played Billy Rocks, a knife-wielding gunslinger, in The Magnificent Seven alongside Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, and Chris Pratt. 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. 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.