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Key facts
- Born
- Sang-yeop Yeun , ( 1983-12-21 ) December 21, 1983 (age 42) , Seoul , South Korea
- Citizenship
- South Korea United States
- Alma mater
- Kalamazoo College (BA)
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 2004–present
- Spouse
- Joana Pak ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2016 )
- Awards
- Full list
- Hangul
- 연상엽
- Rr
- Yeon Sangyeop
- Mr
- Yŏn Sangyŏp
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Steven
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Seoul
- Occupation
- singer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- Korean
- Field of work
- music
- Image
- Steven Yeun at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival (cropped).jpg
- Number of children
- 2
- Residence
- Troy
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- date of birth
- 1983-00-00
- Commons category
- Steven Yeun
- start of work period
- 2005-00-00
- social media followers
- 1434352
- ethnic group
- Korean Americans
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Actor
- birth name
- 연상엽
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Encyclopedic overview
Sang-yeop Yeun (Korean: 연상엽; born December 21, 1983), known professionally as Steven Yeun (/jʌn/ YUHN), is an American actor. He rose to prominence for playing Glenn Rhee in the television series The Walking Dead (2010–2016). He earned critical acclaim for the films Burning (2018) and Minari (2020). For the latter, he became the first East Asian-American nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2021. For the Netflix dark comedy series Beef (2023), which he produced and starred in, Yeun received Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Limited Series and Outstanding Lead Actor.
Yeun has also appeared in the films Okja (2017), Sorry to Bother You (2018), The Humans (2021), and Nope (2022). He has also voiced main characters in animated television series such as Voltron: Legendary Defender (2016–2018), Tales of Arcadia (2016–2021), Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters (2017–2018), Final Space (2018–2021), Tuca & Bertie (2019–2022), and Invincible (2021–present).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Steven Yeun” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.