Lee Byung-hun

Lee Byung-hun
Lee in 2020
Born	(1970-07-12) July 12, 1970 (age 53) Seoul, South Korea
Alma mater	Hanyang University
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1991–present
Agent(s)	United Talent Agency BH Entertainment (Kakao M)
Spouse	Lee Min-jung ​ (m. 2013)​
Children	2
Korean name
Hangul	이병헌
Hanja	李炳憲
Revised Romanization	I Byeong(-)heon
McCune–Reischauer	Yi Pyŏnghŏn

Lee Byung-hun (Korean: 이병헌; born July 12, 1970^[1]) is a South Korean actor. 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); and the television series Iris (2009) and Mr. Sunshine (2018). His critically acclaimed film Inside Men (2015) won him the Best Actor prize at the three most prestigious South Korean award ceremonies: 52nd Baeksang Arts Awards, 37th Blue Dragon Film Awards and 53rd Grand Bell Awards. Lee has seven films—Joint Security Area, The Good, the Bad, the Weird, Masquerade, Inside Men, Master, Ashfall and The Man Standing Next—on the list of the highest-grossing films in South Korea. Lee was Gallup Korea's Actor of the Year in the Film division in 2012 and in the Television division in 2018.^[2][3] In 2021, he appeared in a recurring role as the Front Man in the Netflix hit survival series Squid Game.

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 T-1000 in Terminator Genisys (2015), and Billy Rocks in The Magnificent Seven (2016). 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.^[4] 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.