Steven YEUN, born YEUN Sang-yeop in 1983 in Seoul, is a Korean-American actor. After following his family when they moved to Canada and later to the US, he took an interest in acting while watching a performance from his university’s improvisation group, which he later managed to join. Determined to pursue an acting career, he moved to Chicago and first joined sketch comedy group Stir Friday Night, before his friend and comedian Jordan KLEPPER introduced him to improvisati...More

Steven YEUN, born YEUN Sang-yeop in 1983 in Seoul, is a Korean-American actor. After following his family when they moved to Canada and later to the US, he took an interest in acting while watching a performance from his university’s improvisation group, which he later managed to join. Determined to pursue an acting career, he moved to Chicago and first joined sketch comedy group Stir Friday Night, before his friend and comedian Jordan KLEPPER introduced him to improvisational theatre troupe Second City. He first appeared in a few short movies and the feature film <My Name is Jerry> (2009), but his big breakthrough came in 2010 when he was cast as Glenn Rhee in the post-apocalyptic zombie TV series <Walking Dead>, one of the most successful and highly regarded television series ever. By the time his character left the show, he had become one of the most sough-after Asian-American actors. After playing in Mike CAHILL’s <I Origins> (2014), Best Feature-Length Film at the Sitges Film Festival, and made his Korean debut in 2015 with the drama anthology <Like a French Film>. When Conan O’Brien visited Korea for his late-night talk show, he naturally thought to ask YEUN to serve as his guide and interpreter. While he has recently been mainly active as a voice actor for several animated series and movies, his profile made him the ideal actor to take the role of a cunning Korean-English interpreter in BONG Joon-ho’s Netflix film <Okja> (2017), and he put his survival skills to the test again by starring in the plague horror <Mayhem> (2017). In 2018, he was one of the leads in <BURNING>, LEE Chang-dong’s long expected first film in eight years, which entered the main competition of the Cannes Film Festival. Less