1. Rick Yune was born on August 22,1971 and is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, and martial artist of Korean descent.
16 Facts About Rick Yune
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Rick Yune was part of the main cast of the Netflix original series Marco Polo.
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Rick Yune was educated at Our Lady of Good Counsel High School and St John's College High School.
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Rick Yune was one of the original hedge fund traders for SAC Capital but left to pursue entrepreneurial ventures.
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Rick Yune changed the spelling of his last name from "Yun" to "Yune" for Screen Actors Guild purposes.
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Rick Yune made his film debut in 1999, playing Kazuo Miyamoto, a Japanese-American war hero accused of killing a respected fisherman in the close-knit community, in director Scott Hicks' film adaptation of David Guterson's post-World War II novel, Snow Falling on Cedars.
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Rick Yune co-starred as Johnny Tran, a Vietnamese gang leader and the rival of Vin Diesel's character, in the 2001 film The Fast and the Furious.
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In 2002, Rick Yune portrayed Zao, a North Korean terrorist who works for the Korean People's Army, opposite Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry, in the James Bond film Die Another Day.
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That year Rick Yune was voted one of People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive".
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Rick Yune appeared in two 2005 episodes of ABC's spy series Alias, playing a modern-day samurai Kazu Tamazaki who is hunted down by Jennifer Garner as Sydney.
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Rick Yune appeared as a guest in an episode of ABC's legal dramedy series Boston Legal and the CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
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Rick Yune starred with Russell Crowe and Lucy Liu in the 2012 martial arts film, The Man with the Iron Fists.
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In 2013, Rick Yune played Kang Yeon-Sak, a North Korean ultra-nationalist and ex-terrorist mastermind who plans a terrorist attack on the White House, in the action thriller Olympus Has Fallen, opposite Gerard Butler.
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In 2014, Rick Yune took on the role of Kaidu, a Mongol Khan, in the historical drama series Marco Polo.
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Rick Yune reprised his role in the second season, which was released in 2016.
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Rick Yune is a board member of the Center for Global Dialogue and Cooperation and an ambassador for the Princess Charlene Foundation of Monaco.