Jason Scott Lee

Jason Scott Lee (Chinese: 李截; pinyin: Lǐ Jié; born November 19, 1966) is an American actor and martial artist who is perhaps best known for his roles as Bruce Lee (no relation) in the 1993 martial arts film Dragon: The Bruce Lee Storyand Mowgli in Disney's 1994 live action adaptation of The Jungle Book.
== Personal life ==
Lee was born in Los Angeles.[1] He was raised in Hawaii and is of both Hawaiian and Chinese descent.[2] He attended school at Pearl City High School.[3] He has been married to Diana Lee since 2008.
== Career ==
Lee started his acting career with small roles in Born in East L.A. (1987) and Back to the Future Part II (1989). He played his first leading role portraying Bruce Lee in the biopic Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story in 1993.[4] Lee has trained in Bruce Lee's martial art Jeet Kune Do since portraying Lee and continues to train and is now a certified instructor under former Bruce Lee student Jerry Poteet. He played leading roles in other films such as Map of the Human Heart (1993) and Rapa-Nui (1994). He starred as Mowgli in the 1994 live-action adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book. Lee was originally considered for the role of Liu Kang in the 1995 film Mortal Kombat, but Lee turned down the role and was replaced by Robin Shou. Lee played Caine 607 in the 1998 film Soldier, along with Kurt Russell and Mortal Kombat film director Paul Anderson. In 2000 he played Aladdin in the miniseries Arabian Nights. He did voice-over work for the 2002 Disney animated adventure film Lilo & Stitch.
Lee went on to appear in several direct-to-video films such as Dracula II: Ascension (2001), Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision (2003), and The Prophecy: Forsaken (2005). 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.
Lee played Eddie in the 2007 sports comedy film Balls of Fury, in his first theatrical release film since 2002. Lee performed as The King of Siam in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I in a production at the London Palladium in 2000 opposite Elaine Paige.[5] Lee made his operatic debut in the non-singing role of Pasha Selim in Hawaii Opera Theatre's production of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio at the Blaisdell Concert Hall in Honolulu in February 2009.[6]
Lee was also to perform as The King of Siam in the 2014 Opera Australiaproduction of The King and I in Melbourne opposite Lisa McCune, but was injured, and Lou Diamond Phillips had to take his role.
In 2016, Lee played Hades Dai in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny.
== Filmography ==
=== Film ===
Year	Film 	Role 	Notes
1987	Born in East L.A. 	Paco 	
1989	Back to the Future Part II 	Whitey 	
1991	Ghoulies 3: Ghoulies Go to College 	Kyle 	
1993	Map of the Human Heart 	Avik 	
1993	Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story 	Bruce Lee 	
1994	Rapa-Nui 	Noro 	
1994	Picture Bride 	Worker 	Uncredited
1994	The Jungle Book 	Mowgli 	
1997	Murder in Mind 	Holloway 	
1998	Tale of the Mummy 	Riley 	
1998	Soldier 	Caine 607 	
2002	Lilo & Stitch 	David Kawena
(voice)	
2003	Dracula II: Ascension 	Father Uffizi	Direct-to-video
2003	Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision 	Ryan Chan 	Direct-to-video
2005	Dracula III: Legacy 	Father Uffizi	Direct-to-video
2005	Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch 	David Kawena
(voice)	Direct-to-video
2005	The Prophecy: Forsaken 	Dylan 	Direct-to-video
2005	Only the Brave 	Glenn Takase 	Direct-to-video
2005	Nomad 	Oraz 	
2007	Balls of Fury 	Eddie 	
2008	Dance of the Dragon 	Cheng 	
2014	Seventh Son 	Urag 	
2016	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny	Hades Dai 	
2016	Burn Your Maps 	Shaman Helper	
2016	Alaska is a Drag 	Diego 	
2020	Mulan 	Bori Khan 	Filming
=== Television ===
Year 	TV series 	Role 	Notes
1988 	Matlock 	Lee Tran 	Season 2, episode 2: "The Fisherman"
1989 	Wolf 	Chin 	Season 1, episode 6: "Curtains of Silence"
1990 	CBS Schoolbreak Special	John Henderson 	Season 7, episode 4: "American Eyes"
1990 	The Lookalike 	John "Charlie" Chan	Television movie
1990 	Vestige of Honor 	Ha-Kuhn 	Television movie
1997 	The Hunger 	Craig Yun 	Season 1, episode 4: "The Secret Shih Tan"
2000 	Arabian Nights 	Aladdin 	Miniseries
2010–2013	Hawaii Five-0 	Detective Kaleo 	3 episodes
2015 	Warrior 	Koto 	Television movie
=== Documentary ===
Year	Documentary 	Role 	Notes
2006	The Slanted Screen 	Himself	Documentary
2012	Secrets of Shaolin 	Himself	TV Documentary
2014	Trekking Malaysia with Jason Scott Lee	Himself	Travel Documentary
== Honors and recognition ==
In recognition of Lee's positive impact on the image of Asians in America through his physical, attractive roles, Goldsea, the Asian American magazine website, placed him at Number 7 on its compilation "The 130 Most Inspiring Asian Americans of All Time".[7]