Korean-American actor
not to be confused with Lee Hong-giLee Ki-hong. This article uses The native form of this personal name is. This article uses western mention order when note individuals. Ki Hong Lee ( yield September 30, 1986 ) is a Korean-American actor. He is good known for his roles as Minho in the Maze Runner film serial [ 2 ] and Dong Nguyen in the Netflix situation comedy Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

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early life and education [edit ]

Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea, on September 30, 1986. When he was six years erstwhile, his parents moved the class to Auckland, New Zealand. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] When he was eight, his family moved to Los Angeles, California. [ 5 ] Lee studied psychology at the University of California, Berkeley from 2004 to 2008. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In college, Lee was separate of a college chapter of Liberty in North Korea ( LiNK ) and interned at their headquarters. [ 5 ] [ 7 ] He was besides an elected Associated Students of the University of California Senator from 2005 to 2006, under the Student Action party. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] He ran for re-election for the 2006 to 2007 year under “ The Mario Party ” as ‘Ki Hong “ Donkey Kong “ Lee ‘ but failed to garner the necessity votes for the position. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Lee began acting in middle school, doing skits at church retreats. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] He initially wanted to become a teacher [ 15 ] [ unreliable source? ] but was inspired to pursue acting after watching Aaron Yoo in the film Disturbia ( 2007 ) while in college. [ 6 ] After college, he worked at his parents ‘ sundubu jjigae restaurant, Tofu Village, in Little Tokyo while pursuing acting. [ 5 ] [ 13 ]

career [edit ]

Since 2010, Lee has guest starred in many different television shows such as Victorious, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, New Girl, and Modern Family before landing a chief function in ABC Family ‘s The Nine Lives of Chloe King. Lee made his stage debut in Wrinkles, presented by East West Players and directed by Jeff Liu. It opened on February 16, 2011 and closed on March 13, 2011 at the David Henry Hwang Theater at the Union Center for the Arts in Downtown Los Angeles. [ 16 ]

Since 2012, Lee has collaborated with Wong Fu Productions ( WFP ) featuring in more than five unretentive video recording including the Away We Happened mini-series. On June 26, 2014, it was announced that Lee was cast in WFP ‘s first feature film Everything Before Us, which focuses on “ two couples at different stages of their relationships, set in a populace where “ all relationship activity is documented and monitored by the Department of Emotional Integrity ( DEI ) ” and is assigned a numeral like a recognition grudge. ” The movie besides featured The Tomorrow People ‘s Aaron Yoo and Veep ‘s Randall Park. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] In 2013, Lee made his feature-length film debut in the YouTube, bipartite film adaptation of Yellowface, from dramatist David Henry Hwang. [ 19 ] It was published by the asian American-centric YOMYOMF network. [ 19 ] On April 18, 2013, film director Wes Ball announced via Twitter that Lee had been cast in the film adaptation of the young-adult dystopian skill fabrication novel, The Maze Runner, as Minho, the keeper of the Runners in mission of navigating and mapping out the Maze. [ 20 ] This was Lee ‘s feature film debut. He reprised the function in the sequel, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, which was released on September 18, 2015, and the concluding film in the franchise, Maze Runner: The Death Cure, which was released on January 26, 2018. In fall 2017, he played the lead in Julia Cho ‘s play, Office Hour, aboard actress Sue Jean Kim in the New York premiere of the product at the Public Theater. [ 21 ] In November 2018, Lee debuted the eight-episode network series Mr. Soulmate on IGTV. [ 22 ]

personal life [edit ]

Ki Hong Lee married his childhood acquaintance Hayoung Choi on March 7, 2015. Their daughter was born in late 2016. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] Choi played Lee ‘s character ‘s modern girlfriend in the 2013 brusque film She Has a Boyfriend, by Wong Fu Productions. [ 25 ]

Filmography [edit ]

film [edit ]

Short film [edit ]

Year

Film

Role

Notes

2011

All in All

Jeremy

2012

Take It Slow

Brian

Wong Fu Productions
Fratervention: The End of Bro’ing Out

Keith

Away We Happened

Ben

Wong Fu Productions
Mini-Series
6 episodes

Always You

James

YOMYOMF Network
MotherLover

Chaz Seong

YOMYOMF Network
Mini-Series
6 episodes

2013

The Master Chef

John Suh

Jubilee Project

This Is How We Never Met

Boy

Wong Fu Productions
Somewhere Like This

Boyfriend

To Those Nights

Elijah bar friends

She Has a Boyfriend

Frank

2014

This Time

Manny Park

Jubilee Project

2017

Asian Bachelorette

Tom

Wong Fu Productions

2018

Asian Bachelorette 2

Tom / Tobby

Wong Fu Productions

2020

Si

Si

Directed by Thomas Percy Kim

television receiver [edit ]

stagecoach [edit ]

Year

Title

Role

Notes

2011

Wrinkles

Jason

2017

Office Hour

Dennis

Video games [edit ]

Year

Title

Role

Notes

2013

Grand Theft Auto: V

The Local Population (voice)

References [edit ]