Jason Scott Lee
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 Jason Scott Lee (left) on the cover of the DVD for Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision |
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Jason Scott Lee (李截, pinyin: Lǐ Jié, born November 19, 1966) is an American movie actor.
Lee was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Sylvia and Robert Lee, a bus driver.[1] Lee was raised in Hawaii. He is of mixed Chinese-American and Hawaiian descent. He attended high school with Carrie Ann Inaba, of Dancing with the Stars, and dated her briefly.
In the mid-1990s, Lee had a few leading roles in feature films. Since that time, he has not broken into the ranks of major stardom, but continues to receive supporting roles. He currently owns the Ulua Theatre, which opened in 2005, where he performed as Pale in the production of Burn This. As a non-Caucasian actor with an ambiguous ethnic appearance, he has been called upon to portray various races. He played an Inuit in Map of the Human Heart, a Polynesian in Rapa Nui and an Indian in The Jungle Book.
Lee is not related to martial arts legend Bruce Lee, whom he portrayed in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story.
Jason has trained in Bruce Lee's signature martial art Jeet Kune Do since portraying Lee in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story in 1993. He continues to train and is now a certified instructor under former Bruce Lee student Jerry Poteet.
Lee is among the actors, producers and directors interviewed in the documentary The Slanted Screen (2006), directed by Jeff Adachi, about the representation of Asian and Asian American men in Hollywood.
[edit] Filmography
- Born in East L.A. (1987) Paco
- Back to the Future Part II (1989) Whitey
- Map of the Human Heart (1993) Avik
- Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993) Bruce Lee
- Rapa Nui (1994)
- Picture Bride (1994)
- The Jungle Book (1994) Mowgli
- Tale of the Mummy (1998) Mummy
- Soldier (1998) Caine 607
- Arabian Nights (2000) Aladdin
- Lilo & Stitch (2002) (voice) David Kawena
- Dracula II: Ascension (2003) Father Uffizi
- Dracula III: Legacy (2005) Father Uffizi
- Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision (2004)
- Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (2005) (V) (voice) David Kawena
- The Prophecy: Forsaken (2005)
- Only the Brave (2005)
- Nomad (2006)
- The Slanted Screen (documentary, 2006)
- Balls of Fury (2007)
- Dance of the Dragon (to be released in 2008)
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- Draw Of The Kings (to be realesed in 2012)
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