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Home/People/Lee Byung-hun
Lee Byung-hun profile photo
Born
Jul 12, 1970
Age 55
Place of Birth
Seongnam, Gyeonggi, South Korea
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male

Career Highlights

49
Movies
32
TV Shows
Also Known As
李秉宪
Λι Μπιόνγκ-χον
Byung Hun Lee
لی بیونگ-هون
Бён-хон Ли
+2 more
IMDb Profile

Lee Byung-hun

Acting

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).
No Other Choice poster

No Other Choice

as Yoo Man-su
2025
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Squid Game in Conversation

as Self
2025
KPop Demon Hunters poster

KPop Demon Hunters

as Gwi-Ma (voice)
2025
Netflix Tudum 2025 poster

Netflix Tudum 2025

as Self
2025
The Match poster

The Match

as Cho Hoon-hyun
2025
Squid Game: Making Season 2 poster

Squid Game: Making Season 2

as Self
2025
BSK 25th Anniversary Concert Film : The Journey poster

BSK 25th Anniversary Concert Film : The Journey

as Narrator (voice)
2024
Concrete Utopia poster

Concrete Utopia

as Yeong-tak
2023
Emergency Declaration poster

Emergency Declaration

as Park Jae-hyuk
2022
The Man Standing Next poster

The Man Standing Next

as Kim Gyu-pyeong
2020
Ashfall poster

Ashfall

as Lee Jun-pyeong
2019
Keys to the Heart poster

Keys to the Heart

as Kim Jo-ha
2018
The Fortress poster

The Fortress

as Choe Myeong-gil
2017
Decades Apart poster

Decades Apart

as Sgt. Lee Soo-hyeck
2017
A Single Rider poster

A Single Rider

as Kang Jae-hoon
2017
Master poster

Master

as President Jin
2016
The Magnificent Seven poster

The Magnificent Seven

as Billy Rocks
2016
The Age of Shadows poster

The Age of Shadows

as Jung Chae-san
2016
Misconduct poster

Misconduct

as The Accountant
2016
Inside Men poster

Inside Men

as Ahn Sang-goo
2015