Will Yun Lee (born March 22, 1971) is a Korean-American actor and martial artist from Arlington, Virginia.
He's been acting since 1997, often as characters either affiliated with The Triads and the Tongs, or people trying to take them down. His Star-Making Role was as Detective Danny Woo in the Witchblade TV series, and since then he's played the villain in the James Bond film Die Another Day, as well as voicing and lending his face to protagonist Wei Shen in Sleeping Dogs (2012).
Roles
- 1997: Nash Bridges: Quick ("Gun Play")
- 1998: Profiler: Andrew Young ("Ties That Bind")
- 1998: Brimstone: Roger in ("Poem")
- 1999: V.I.P.: "Mao Better Blues"
- 2000: Gung Fu The New Dragon: Danny
- 2000: What's Cooking?: Jimmy Nguyen
- 2000: The Disciples: Yoyo Lee
- 2000-2002: Witchblade: Detective Danny Woo (main cast)
- 2001: The Agency: Sam ("The Year of Living Dangerously")
- 2002: Face 2002: Daniel
- 2002: Four Reasons: Buddha
- 2002: Die Another Day: Colonel Tan-Sun Moon
- 2003-2004: Ten Eight Officers On Duty: Detective Danny Chang ("Let It Bleed", "Love Don't Love Nobody")
- 2004: Torque: Val
- 2004: Threat Matrix: Danny Roh ("PPX")
- 2004: Law & Order: Hiroshi Yoshida ("Gaijin")
- 2005: Elektra: Kirigi
- 2005: The Seed: Ken Marcado
- 2006: Thief: Vincent Chan (recurrer)
- 2006: CSI: Dennis Kim ("Time of Your Death")
- 2006: Tsunami The Aftermath: Chai
- 2007: Hers: Lucas
- 2007: Hustle: Shiro ("Conning the Artists")
- 2007: Fallen: Mazarin (recurrer)
- 2007: Bionic Woman: Jae Kim (recurrer)
- 2008: Sixth And Santa Fe
- 2008: Finnegan: Taki
- 2010: The King of Fighters: Iori Yagami
- 2010: Bostons Finest: Eddie Lao
- 2010: Five Star Day: Samuel Kim
- 2010–2014: Hawaii Five-0: Sang Min (recurrer)
- 2011: Four Assassins: Marcus
- 2011: Where The Road Meets The Sun: Takashi
- 2011: Setup: Joey
- 2011: Oka: Yi
- 2011: Saints Row: The Third: various
- 2012: Total Recall: Marek
- 2012: Red Dawn: Captain Cho
- 2012: Infex: IngenBio Guard
- 2012: Sleeping Dogs (2012): Detective Wei Shen
- 2013: Lost for Words: Stanford
- 2013: The Wolverine: Kenuichio Harada
- 2013: Make Your Move 3 D: Kaz
- 2014: True Blood: Mr. Gus (recurrer)
- 2014: Intelligence: Jin Cong ("Pilot", "Athens")
- 2015: Power/Rangers (Bootleg Universe): General Klank
- 2015: San Andreas: Dr. Kim Park
- 2015: Strike Back: Legacy: Kwon (recurrer)
- 2015: Spy: Timothy Cress
- 2015: Power Rangers: General Klank
- 2015: Dr. Ken: Kevin O'Connell ("Kevin O'Connell")
- 2015: The Player: Liu Zeng ("House Rules")
- 2015: Mortal Kombat X: Kung Lao
- 2016-2018: Falling Water: Det. Taka
- 2017-: The Good Doctor: Dr. Alex Park
- 2018: Altered Carbon: Stronghold Kovacs
- 2018: Rampage (2018): Agent Park
- 2020: Yakuza: Like a Dragon: Masato Arakawa
- 2021: Blade Runner: Black Lotus: Joseph
- 2022: The Guardians of Justice: Marvelous Man
Tropes common to his roles:
- The Cast Showoff: In more actiony flicks he'll usually get a chance to show off his martial arts skills in-character, from practicing kata in Witchblade to beating the ever-loving crap out of the Empowered Badass Normal, former Delta Force protagonist in Intelligence.
- Plays Great Ethnics: He's an American of Korean descent, but he's been cast as every Southeast Asian ethnicity under the sun at one point or another, as well as occasionally Latinos.
