Kevin Lee is an English actor who started his acting career in China. He has played roles in films directed by

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, and Wu Jing. Lee typically portrays the main antagonist or supporting roles. His works include

Wolf Warrior ''Wolf Warrior'' () is a 2015 Chinese war film written and directed by Wu Jing (actor), Wu Jing. It stars Wu Jing along with Scott Adkins, Yu Nan and Kevin Lee. It was released on 2 April 2015. A sequel, titled ''Wolf Warrior 2'', was release ...

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, and playing a knight in the Netflix series

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. He also appeared in the Chinese movie '' S.W.A.T.'' (2019) starring

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, in which Lee plays his right-hand man.

Early life

Kevin Lee was born in

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, United Kingdom. As a child, he loved watching Chinese

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, including films starring

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and

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. He gained a degree in IT but decided to study

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province,

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, before moving back to the UK. After working as a salesman and

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in the UK, he trained as an

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before moving back to China in 2010.

Film career

Lee says that he met director Wu Jing while renewing his

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at the Public Security Bureau in the Chinese capital of

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. He went on to star in Wu Jing's ''

'' (2015), the first in the Chinese patriotic ''Wolf Warrior'' franchise, and featured in the

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film ''

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'' (2016), starring Jackie Chan, and the Zhang Chong film ''

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'' (2019). He is best known for playing Crazy Bull in

and the American colonel Allan Maclean in ''

'' (2021). He was cast in the

movie ''Sniper'' (2022).

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lee, Kevin 1981 births 21st-century English male actors Living people Male actors from Cambridge English emigrants to China