American actor and martial artist
Jason Scott Lee ( chinese : 李 截 ; pinyin : Lǐ Jié ; born November 19, 1966 ) is an american actor and martial artist. He played Mowgli in Disney ‘s 1994 live action adaptation of The Jungle Book and Bruce Lee in the 1993 soldierly arts film Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story. He is unrelated to Bruce Lee. [ 1 ]

personal life [edit ]

Lee was born in Los Angeles. [ 2 ] He was raised in Hawaii and is of hawaiian and chinese descent. [ 3 ] He attended school at Pearl City High School. [ 4 ]

Lee has been married to Diana Chan since 2008 .

career [edit ]

Lee started his acting career with little roles in Born in East L.A. ( 1987 ) and Back to the Future Part II ( 1989 ). In 1990, he appeared in the television film The Lookalike. In 1992, he played his first head function in the amatory drama Map of the Human Heart. In 1993, he portrayed Bruce Lee in the biopic Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story [ 5 ] Lee has trained in Bruce Lee ‘s soldierly artwork Jeet Kune Do since portraying Lee and continues to train and became a certified teacher under erstwhile Bruce Lee student Jerry Poteet. In 1994, he starred in Rapa-Nui and as Mowgli in the live-action adaptation of Rudyard Kipling ‘s The Jungle Book with Lena Headey and John Cleese. Lee was in the first place considered for the character of Liu Kang in the 1995 film Mortal Kombat, but Lee turned down the function and was replaced by Robin Shou. In 1998, he played the main villain Caine 607 in the skill fabrication film Soldier, along with Kurt Russell and Mortal Kombat film film director Paul Anderson. In 2000, he played Aladdin in the miniseries Arabian Nights. He did voice-over exploit for the 2002 Disney animated movie Lilo & Stitch. Lee went on to appear in several direct-to-video films such as Dracula II: Ascension ( 2001 ), Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision ( 2003 ), and The Prophecy: Forsaken ( 2005 ). Lee is among the actors, producers and directors interviewed in the objective The Slanted Screen ( 2006 ), directed by Jeff Adachi, about the representation of asian and asian american men in Hollywood. In 2007, he played Eddie in the sports comedy film Balls of Fury, in his first theatrically released film since 2002. Lee performed as The King of Siam in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I in a product at the London Palladium in 2000 opposite Elaine Paige. [ 6 ] Lee made his operatic debut in the non-singing character of Pasha Selim in Hawaii Opera Theatre ‘s production of Mozart ‘s Abduction from the Seraglio at the Blaisdell Concert Hall in Honolulu in February 2009. [ 7 ]

Lee was besides to perform as The King of Siam in the 2014 Opera Australia product of The King and I in Melbourne face-to-face Lisa McCune, but was injured, and Lou Diamond Phillips had to take his function. In 2016, Lee played Hades Dai in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny. In 2019, he voiced the independent character, The Swordsman, for Kevin McTurk ‘s crowdsourced light puppetry film, The Haunted Swordsman. In 2020, he played the villain Böri Khan in Disney ’ second Mulan, a live carry through remake of the 1998 animated film of the same name. In 2021, Lee stars as a chief function in the Disney+ series, Doogie Kameāloha, M.D., a boot of Doogie Howser, M.D.

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Filmography [edit ]

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television [edit ]

objective [edit ]

Year Documentary Role Notes
2006 The Slanted Screen Himself Documentary
2012 Secrets of Shaolin Himself TV documentary
2014 Trekking Malaysia with Jason Scott Lee Himself Travel documentary

Honors and realization [edit ]

In recognition of Lee ‘s positive impact on the persona of Asians in America through his physical, attractive roles, Goldsea, the asian American magazine web site, placed him at Number 7 on its compilation “ The 130 Most prompt asian Americans of All Time ”. [ 8 ]

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