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Lee Byung-hun
Seongnam, Gyeonggi, South Korea
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…
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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).
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2025
New Old Boy : Dir. Park
TV show Self
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2025
No Other Choice
Movie Man-su
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2025
Squid Game in Conversation
Movie Self
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2025
KPop Demon Hunters
Movie Gwi-Ma (voice)
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2025
Netflix Tudum 2025
Movie Self
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2025
The Match
Movie Cho Hoon-hyun
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2025
Squid Game: Making Season 2
Movie Self
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2024
Squid Game: The Official Podcast
TV show Self - Guest
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2024
BSK 25th Anniversary Concert Film : The Journey
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2024
Hot Ones Versus
TV show Self
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2023
Concrete Utopia
Movie Yeong-tak
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2023
Nattering with Nah
TV show
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2022
Just an Excuse
TV show Self
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2022
Emergency Declaration
Movie Park Jae-hyuk
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2022
Our Blues
TV show Lee Dong-seok
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2021
Squid Game
TV show Front Man / Hwang In-ho
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2021
SNL Korea
TV show Self - Host
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2021
The Game Caterers
TV show Self
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2020
The Man Standing Next
Movie Kim Gyu-pyeong
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2019
Ashfall
Movie Lee Jun-pyeong
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2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV show Self
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2018
You Quiz on the Block
TV show Self
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2018
Mr. Sunshine
TV show Eugene Choi / Choi Yu-jin
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2018
Keys to the Heart
Movie Kim Jo-ha
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2017
The Fortress
Movie Choe Myeong-gil
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2017
Decades Apart
Movie Sgt. Lee Soo-hyeck
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2017
A Single Rider
Movie Kang Jae-hoon
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2016
Master
Movie President Jin
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2016
The Magnificent Seven
Movie Billy Rocks
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2016
The Age of Shadows
Movie Jung Chae-san
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2016
Misconduct
Movie The Accountant
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2015
Inside Men
Movie Ahn Sang-goo
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2015
Memories of the Sword
Movie Yu-baek / Duk-gi
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2015
Terminator Genisys
Movie Cop / T-1000
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2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV show Self - Guest
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2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV show Self - Guest
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2013
최후의 권력
TV show Narrator (voice)
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2013
RED 2
Movie Han Cho Bai
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2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation
Movie Tommy Arashikage / Storm Shadow
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2013
IRIS 特务情人 DVD版
TV show
