Simon Rhee

Master Simon Rhee is a stuntman, stunt coordinator, and fight choreographer who appeared as a Vengeance security officer in under stunt coordination by John Stoneham, Jr.
Born in San Jose, California, Rhee spent his childhood in Seoul, Korea where he also started his martial arts training. He continued his training in Tae Kwan Do in San Francisco and Los Angeles and has earned a 7th degree Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do and a 4th degree Black Belt in Hap Ki Do. He participated in several tournaments and earned many titles as Grand Champion. He also runs his own Tae Kwon Do training center in Woodland Hills, Calabasas and has been taught over the last forty years. His brother is an actor and producer.
Rhee won two Taurus World Stunt Awards. The first in 2002 in the category Best Fight for his work as stunt double for in the action comedy sequel Rush Hour 2, shared with Michael Li, Mark Hicks, and Xuyen Valdivia. The second in 2007 in the category Best Fire Stunt for his performance in the war drama Letters from Iwo Jima. He received another nomination in the same category for Letters from Iwo Jima, shared with stuntman Steven Ito.
Rhee also received six Screen Actors Guild Award nominations as part of the Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble. He won two of these awards for Heroes in 2009 and for Inception in 2010. His nominations include Heroes in 2008, Transformers: Dark of the Moon in 2012, The Dark Knight Rises in 2013, and Daredevil in 2016.
Among Rhee's earliest work are (1977, with Branscombe Richmond), the short film Firefight (1983, with Brian Thompson and Gary Kasper), the action film Furious (1984), the action drama Killzone (1985), and the action film Silent Assassins (1988, with Bill Erwin).
Rhee and his brother Phillip became well known for their work on (1989), (1993), (1995), and (1998). Simon Rhee worked as stunt coordinator on all four films. The films also featured Star Trek performers Louise Fletcher, James Lew, Kane Hodder, Billy Burton, Jr., Bobby Burns, Gilbert Combs, Don Charles McGovern, Charles Picerni, Jr., Steve Picerni, Meg Foster, Patrick Kilpatrick, Mike Genovese, Nicholas Worth, Albie Selznick, Manny Perry, Günther Ziegler, Carl Ciarfalio, Vince Deadrick, Jr., Jeffrey S. Jensen, Steven Lambert, David LeBell, Gene LeBell, Irving Lewis, Frank Lloyd, Eric Norris, Charles Picerni, Denney Pierce, Charlie Skeen, J.J. Perry, Christopher McDonald, Mark Rolston, Michael Bailey Smith, Cole McKay, Kurt D. Lott, Erik Stabenau, Justin Sundquist, Jessica Collins, Monty Rex Perlin, Robert Alonzo, Jane Austin, Ken Clark, Shauna O'Brien, Mike Mukatis, Rich Cetrone, Carol Daniels, Scott Leva, and John Moio.
He worked as stunt double for actors such as on (2007), George Takei in You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008), (2007), and Supah Ninjas (2011), Ken Jeong, Tzi Ma, Tim Kang, Brian Tee, Randall Park in Supah Ninjas (2011), and Byung-hun Lee in (2015).
Other projects he performed stunts in include (1991), (1991), (1992), the action film Bad Blood (1994, with Michael J. Sarna, Gary Wayton, Jim Wilkey, Don Pike, Gary Pike, Steve Kelso, and Jeff Cadiente), Cyber-Tracker 2 (1995, with Anthony De Longis, Chuck Borden, Chris Doyle, and Anita Hart), the science fiction film The Silencers (1996, with John Alden, Craig Baxley, Jr., Gary Baxley, and Merritt Yohnka), (1996), (1997, with Jay Caputo, Eliza Coleman, Eugene Collier, Al Goto, Jeff Imada, Eddie Mathews, and Hiro Koda), (1997), (1997), (1997, with Eddie Perez and Bridgett Riley), (1998), and (1998) as well as the television series Growing Pains (1992, with James Lew, Gina Philips, and Sam Anderson), Nash Bridges (1998, with Stephen Lee, Caroline Lagerfelt, and Michael Owen), Martial Law (1998, with Tom Wright, Mike Starr, F.J. Rio, Jim Lau, and Brian Simpson), Team Knight Rider (1998), L.A. Heat (1997-1999, with Kenneth Tigar), and (1994-2000, with Noble Willingham).
As stunt coordinator, Rhee worked on the action film T.N.T. (1997), the comedy Psycho Sushi (1997), (2001), episodes of MADtv (2008) and My Own Worst Enemy (2008, with Christian Slater), the short thriller The Honeysting (2009, with Rife Sibley and James Lew), the thriller Game of Death (2011, with Ron Balicki, Marie Fink, and Aaron Toney), (2011), (2013), the comedy Wedding Palace (2013), and (2005-2014), Grimm (2012-2015), Jessica Jones (2015), Pretty Little Liars (2011-2016), and Mistresses (2016).
Further film and television work can be seen in (2000), (2002, with Jennifer Tung, Michael Li, Al Goto, Hiro Koda, Marcus Young, Mike Gunther, and Leigh Hennessy), J.J. Abrams's (2002, with Victor Garber, Terry O'Quinn, Greg Grunberg, Jeffrey Chase, and Shauna Duggins), (2002), 's music video (2002), (2003), (2003), the reality show Next Action Star (2004), (2004), (2005), (2006, directed by J.J. Abrams), (2006), (2006), (2003, with Paul Eliopoulos), (2004, with William Shatner, Todd Stashwick, Aisha Hinds, René Auberjonois, Don McManus, and Sharon Lawrence), and (2007, with Trace Cheramie, Erik Stabenau, and Yoshio Iizuka and coordinated by Jeff Cadiente), and (both 2008), (2008), (2009, with The Rock), (2008, with Daniel Dae Kim), (2009, with Thomas Dekker, Edward Conna, Max Daniels, Rosine "Ace" Hatem, and Spice Williams), Brannon Braga's (2009, with John Cho and Gabrielle Union), Southland (2010), Undercovers (2010, with Michael Reilly Burke, Terry Jackson, Lin Oeding, and Paul Lacovara), No Ordinary Family (2010, with Jimmy Bennett, Autumn Reeser, and Stephen Collins), (2007-2010), and (2012, with Vanessa Branch), (2012), (2012, with Chris Hemsworth), (2013), (2013), (2013), (2014), episodes of True Blood (2014, with Chien Funan, Henry Kingi, Jr., Dorian Kingi, Mark Wagner, and Kiante Elam), Sons of Anarchy (2013-2014), Daredevil (2015, with Lauren Mary Kim and Panuvat Anthony Nanakornpanom), Supergirl (2015, with Shauna Duggins and Mark Ginther), (2015-2016, with Kevin Derr and Paul E. Short), Fear the Walking Dead (2016, with Cheryl Lewis), and Rush Hour (2016, coordinated by James Lew and Jeff Wolfe), and (2016).
More recent stunt work include (2016), episodes of Mom (2017), MacGyver (2016-2017, with Alina Andrei and John Dixon and coordinated by Jeff Wolfe), Iron Fist (2017), (2017, coordinated by Tanner Gill), Shooter (2017, with Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Michelle Krusiec, Craig Reed, and Omid Zader), The Last Ship (2016-2017, with Ron Balicki, Boni Yanagisawa, Marcus Young, Mickey Cassidy, Kevin Derr, Anthony Molinari, and Denney Pierce), Lucifer (2017, coordinated by Merritt Yohnka), Lethal Weapon (2017), Fresh Off the Boat (2017), Runaways (2017, with Annie Wersching and Brigid Brannagh), Westworld (2016-2018), Legion (2018), Reverie (2018, coordinated by Randy Hall), and Here and Now (2018).
Rhee worked as co-stunt coordinator on two episodes of Iron Fist (2017), as additional stunt coordinator on (2017), and as stunt coordinator on episodes of The Talk (2017) and Stuck in the Middle (2018), the short drama Herstory (2018), and (2020).
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