Lee Byung-hun
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), Mr. Sunshine (2018), and Our Blues (2022). He has received multiple awards and nominations throughout his career.
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). His other notable Hollywood films include Red 2 (2013), Terminator Genisys (2015), and The Magnificent Seven (2016). He also appeared as the Front Man in Netflix hit survival series Squid Game (2021–2025).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.1968 |
| Birthday | 1970-07-12 |
| Place of Birth | Seongnam, Gyeonggi, South Korea |
| Also Known As | 李秉宪, Λι Μπιόνγκ-χον, Byung Hun Lee, لی بیونگ-هون, Бён-хон Ли, Бёнхон Ли, Lee Byeong-heon, |
2000
Joint Security Area
7.825/817
Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. The sergeant is t...
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Joint Security Area
2005
A Bittersweet Life
7.439/985
Kim Sun-woo is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by a cold, calculative crime boss, Kang who assigns Sun-woo to a simple errand while he is aw...
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A Bittersweet Life
2004
Everybody Has Secrets
6.1/22
Mi-young shows her boyfriend, Soo-hyun, to her two sisters. However, the sisters feel weird after the meeting, since both sisters immediately fall in...
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Everybody Has Secrets
2009
I Come with the Rain
5.6/64
Kline, a former Los Angeles police officer turned private detective, is hired by a powerful pharmaceutical conglomerate boss to investigate in Asia th...
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I Come with the Rain
2006
Once in a Summer
6.892/37
An assistant to a TV producer, eager to stay off his bad side, promises to convince her former professor, a famous but reclusive academic, to appear o...
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Once in a Summer
2009
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
5.783/4881
From the Egyptian desert to deep below the polar ice caps, the elite G.I. JOE team uses the latest in next-generation spy and military equipment to fi...
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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
2008
The Good, the Bad, the Weird
7.163/802
The story of three Korean outlaws in 1930s Manchuria and their dealings with the Japanese army and Chinese and Russian bandits. The Good (a bounty hun...
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The Good, the Bad, the Weird
2002
Addicted
6/21
Two brothers get into a sudden tragic accident and they both fall into a coma at the same time. A year later, the younger brother Dae-jin wakes up bel...
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Addicted
2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation
5.651/5733
Framed for crimes against the country, the G.I. Joe team is terminated by Presidential order. This forces the G.I. Joes into not only fighting their m...
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G.I. Joe: Retaliation
2010
Iris: The Movie
6.4/46
Hyunjun and Sawoo, close friends and rivals from the South Korean special forces, are recruited by the secret agency NSS. They both fall for Seunghee,...
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Iris: The Movie
2001
Bungee Jumping of Their Own
6.5/52
A likeable, married high school teacher spirals out of control when a student in his class begins unintentionally reminding him of his doomed first lo...
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Bungee Jumping of Their Own
2002
My Beautiful Girl, Mari
5.9/35
Two boys find a beautiful world of magic and wonder when they find a magic marble in an old lighthouse. There they meet Mari and can escape from the g...
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My Beautiful Girl, Mari
1999
The Harmonium in My Memory
6.5/39
Hong-yun is a high school girl in little mountain village when she falls head-over-heels for a handsome new school teacher, Mr. Kang. What with taking...
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The Harmonium in My Memory
2013
RED 2
6.533/4295
Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.
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RED 2
2010
I Saw the Devil
7.795/2976
Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. Soo-hyeon, a top-secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises hi...
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I Saw the Devil
2012
Masquerade
7.711/166
Though it places his own life in danger, a look-alike commoner secretly takes the place of a poisoned king to save his country from falling into chaos...
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Masquerade
2015
Terminator Genisys
5.951/8922
The year is 2029. John Connor, leader of the resistance continues the war against the machines. At the Los Angeles offensive, John's fears of the unkn...
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Terminator Genisys
1995
Run Away
5.8/4
Video game producer Lee Dong-ho and freelance artist Choi Mi-ran are both young, ambitious people who are passionate about their life and work. They m...
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Run Away
2007
Hero
6.5/34
After six years away, D.A. Kuryu Kohei (Kimura Takuya) returns to his former Josai branch of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office, just in tim...
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Hero
2015
Inside Men
7/141
A disgruntled henchman teams up with an ambitious prosecutor to bring down a leading presidential candidate and the news editor behind him who is trul...
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Inside Men
2010
The Influence
4.7/3
To keep their values, characters are at a critical juncture to act upon their promises throughout time.
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The Influence
2016
The Magnificent Seven
6.483/6356
Looking to mine for gold, greedy industrialist Bartholomew Bogue seizes control of the Old West town of Rose Creek. With their lives in jeopardy, Emma...
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The Magnificent Seven
2015
Memories of the Sword
6.6/107
While in medieval Korea, a young girl sets out to revenge the betrayal and the death of her mother. But therefore she must face one of the most powerf...
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Memories of the Sword
2025
No Other Choice
7.54/946
After being laid off and humiliated by a ruthless job market, a veteran paper mill manager descends into violence in a desperate bid to reclaim his di...
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No Other Choice
2016
Misconduct
5.59/603
An ambitious lawyer finds himself caught in a power struggle between a corrupt pharmaceutical executive and his firm’s senior partner. When the case t...
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Misconduct
2016
Master
6.934/106
Korea’s biggest network marketing scam reveals a far greater network of corruption and conspiracy lurking underneath.
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Master
1995
Who Drives Me Mad?
0/0
Lee Jong-du, a salesman who believes that luck will change when he becomes a famous writer. However he is forced to give up after his story failed to...
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Who Drives Me Mad?
2016
The Age of Shadows
7.196/367
Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters trying to bring in explos...
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The Age of Shadows
2004
Three... Extremes
6.786/406
Features an anthology centred on the experiences of a witch doctor, a film-maker and a disgruntled extra determined to take revenge on him, and a nove...
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Three... Extremes
2017
A Single Rider
7.2/38
Promising fund manager Jae-hoon is at the brink of losing everything when his company goes bankrupt. Overwhelmed by despair, he takes an impulsive tri...
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A Single Rider
2018
Keys to the Heart
8/47
An older brother is a washed-up boxer. His younger brother is a genius pianist with physical disability. The brothers make up through their mother who...
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Keys to the Heart
2017
The Fortress
6.787/155
Ancient Korea, 17th century. The powerful Khan of the Jurchen tribe of Manchuria, who fights the Ming dinasty to gain China, becomes the first ruler o...
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The Fortress
1996
Kill the Love
5/1
A man named Love joins the criminal underworld in America and falls In love with a woman, sparking the outrage of an old criminal associate from home.
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Kill the Love
1997
Lament
6/1
Kwang Su (Shin Hyun Jun) has struggled his whole life to shake off the stigma of a shameful family history. He lives in a state of perpetual despair....
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Lament
2017
Decades Apart
0/0
For the work Decades Apart commissioned by the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain for the exhibition Highlights, PARKing CHANce has conceived a...
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Decades Apart
1996
Armageddon
2/3
The year is 2157. An alien organization with ultra-high technology, 'Eed', invades the Earth. As the Earth fa ces extinction, Elka, a descendant of th...
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Armageddon
2020
The Man Standing Next
7.113/151
When the investigation of 'Koreagate' takes place, Park Yong-gak, a former KCIA director who knows everything about the government's operations, heads...
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The Man Standing Next
2019
Ashfall
6.8/620
A group of unlikely heroes from across the Korean peninsula try to save the day after a volcano erupts on the mythical and majestic Baekdu Mountain.
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Ashfall
2022
Emergency Declaration
7.471/424
While investigating a terroristic threat that goes viral online, Korean authorities discover that a suspect has recently boarded an international flig...
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Emergency Declaration
2023
Concrete Utopia
6.914/292
The world has been reduced to rubble by a massive earthquake. While no one knows for sure how far the ruins stretch, or what the cause of the earthqua...
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Concrete Utopia
2025
The Match
7.318/77
When a legendary Go master loses his title to a one-time friend and protégé, he sets out to reclaim it in a high-stakes battle of wits and skill.
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The Match
1995
Sunset on the Neon Lights
0/0
Sang-min faces sexual discrimination at her advertising job and her lover's publishing company goes bankrupt. However she is determined to find a solu...
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Sunset on the Neon Lights
2011
Share the Vision
0/0
A 4D music film about a guy named Hyeon-min who sets out to find a new vision after meeting a mentor who is about to change his life.
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Share the Vision
I Believe in a Thing Called Love
0/0
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I Believe in a Thing Called Love
2024
BSK 25th Anniversary Concert Film : The Journey
0/0
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BSK 25th Anniversary Concert Film : The Journey
2025
Squid Game: Making Season 2
8.386/444
From set designs to character arcs, get exclusive cast and director interviews on how Season 2 of the globally most-watched series was brought to life...
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Squid Game: Making Season 2
2025
KPop Demon Hunters
8.015/2657
When K-pop superstars Rumi, Mira and Zoey aren't selling out stadiums, they're using their secret powers to protect their fans from supernatural threa...
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KPop Demon Hunters
2025
Squid Game in Conversation
8.304/23
Take a seat with the director and cast of Squid Game. Discover key moments, hear untold stories and see what this entire journey meant to them.
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Squid Game in Conversation
2025
Netflix Tudum 2025
5.8/16
Celebrate your favorite shows and movies at this star-studded, live global fan event with special performances and exclusive reveals.
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