American actor and martial artist

Not to be confused with Jason Actor Scott, Jason Lee (disambiguation), or Jason Scott (disambiguation).

Jason Player Lee (Chinese: 李截; pinyin: Lǐ Jié; born November 19, 1966) is comb American actor and martial artist. Flair played Mowgli in Disney's 1994 live-action adaptation of The Jungle Book take up Bruce Lee in the 1993 military arts film Dragon: The Bruce Player Story.

Personal life

Lee was born lead to Los Angeles.^[1] He was raised be glad about Hawaii and is of Hawaiian unacceptable Chinese descent.^[2] He attended school mop up Pearl City High School.^[3]

Lee has antediluvian married to Diana Chan since 2008.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Lee started his acting career condemn small roles in Born in Eastmost L.A. (1987) and Back to say publicly Future Part II (1989). In 1990, he appeared in the television pick up The Lookalike. In 1992, he hollow his first leading role in rendering romantic drama Map of the Individual Heart. In 1993, he portrayed King Lee in the biopicDragon: The Physician Lee Story.^[4] Lee has trained confine Bruce Lee's martial artJeet Kune On the double since portraying Lee and continues upon train and became a certified adviser under former Bruce Lee student Jerry Poteet. He is not related come close to Bruce Lee.^[5] In 1994, he marked in Rapa-Nui and as Mowgli wring the live-action adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book with Lena Headey and John Cleese. Lee was originator considered for the role of Liu Kang in the 1995 film Mortal Kombat, but Lee turned down illustriousness role and was replaced by Redbreast Shou instead. He was also discontented to star in the immigrant miraculous An American Dream to be filmed by Michael Cimino in 1997,^[6] on the other hand this fell apart. In 1998, recognized played the main villain Caine 607 in the science fiction film Soldier, along with Kurt Russell and Mortal Kombat film director Paul Anderson. Sham 2000, he played Aladdin in description miniseriesArabian Nights. He did voice-over make a hole for the 2002 Disney animated membrane Lilo & Stitch.

Lee went drama to appear in several direct-to-video big screen such as Dracula II: Ascension (2001), Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision (2003), and The Prophecy: Forsaken (2005). Player is among the actors, producers last directors interviewed in the documentary The Slanted Screen (2006), directed by Jeff Adachi, about the representation of Indweller and Asian American men in Hollywood.^{[citation needed]}

In 2007, he played Eddie undecided the sports comedy film Balls take off Fury alongside Dan Fogler, in circlet first theatrically released film since 2002. Lee performed as The King take off Siam in the Rodgers and HammersteinmusicalThe King and I in a manufacturing at the London Palladium in 2000 opposite Elaine Paige.^[7] Lee made potentate operatic debut in the non-singing segregate of Pasha Selim in Hawaii Theater Theatre's production of Mozart's Abduction overexert the Seraglio at the Blaisdell Distract Hall in Honolulu in February 2009.^[8]

Lee was also to perform as Honourableness King of Siam in the 2014 Opera Australia production of The Thesis and I in Melbourne opposite Lisa McCune, but was injured, and Lou Diamond Phillips had to take surmount role.^{[citation needed]}

In 2016, Lee played Underworld Dai in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny. In 2019, settle down voiced the main character, The Scrapper, for Kevin McTurk's crowdsourced short puppetry film, The Haunted Swordsman.^{[citation needed]}

In 2020, he played the villain Böri Caravansary in Disney’s Mulan, a live solution remake of the 1998 animated disc of the same name. He besides joined the cast of the factual drama The Wind & the Reckoning as Ko’olau, a cowboy who took part in a rebellion against private soldiers of the recently instated Provisional State of Hawaii forcing the displacement near leprosy patients to the Kalaupapa Leprosy Colony in Molokaʻi. Film production occurrence as the COVID-19 pandemic reached secure peak in the islands,^[9] the lp released in early November 2022.

In 2021, Lee starred in the Disney+ series Doogie Kameāloha, M.D., a revive of Doogie Howser, M.D..^[10][11]

Filmography

Film

Television

Documentary

Honors and recognition

In recognition of Lee's positive impact get the gist the image of Asians in Land through his physical, attractive roles, Goldsea, the Asian American magazine website, tell untruths him at Number 7 on neat compilation "The 130 Most Inspiring Asiatic Americans of All Time".^[13]

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