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Lee Byung-hun

Also known as Lee Byeong-heon, Byung Hun Lee

South Korean actor (born 1970)

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SEOUL CITY GUIDE 2014 version anglaise

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Acting · Seongnam, Gyeonggi, South Korea

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),…

Known for

No Other Choice — Man-su2025
The Match — Cho Hoon-hyun2025
Squid Game: Making Season 2 — Self2025
KPop Demon Hunters — Gwi-Ma (voice)2025
Squid Game in Conversation — Self2025
Netflix Tudum 2025 — Self2025
New Old Boy : Dir. Park — Self2025
BSK 25th Anniversary Concert Film : The Journey — Narrator (voice)2024
Hot Ones Versus — Self

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Lee Byung-hun (Korean: 이병헌; born July 12, 1970) 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 All In (2003), Iris (2009), Mr. Sunshine (2018), and Our Blues (2022). His other notable South Korean films include Inside Men (2015), Master (2016), Ashfall (2019), The Man Standing Next (2020), and No Other Choice (2025), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe.

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), Billy Rocks in The Magnificent Seven (2016) and voiced Gwi-Ma in KPop Demon Hunters (2025). He appeared in a recurring role as the Front Man in season 1 and as part of the main cast of seasons 2 and 3 of the Netflix hit survival series Squid Game (2021–2025).