LEE Ki-hong, born in Seoul in 1986, immigrated with his family to New-Zealand when he was 6 years old before moving to Los Angeles two years later. Having started acting in middle school, it wasn’t until he started a degree in psychology that he decided to pursue a career in acting, upon seeing Aaron YOO, an American actor of Korean descent, in the thriller <Disturbia> (2007). He debuted in 2010 with a role in two episodes of the sitcom <Victorious>, before app...More

LEE Ki-hong, born in Seoul in 1986, immigrated with his family to New-Zealand when he was 6 years old before moving to Los Angeles two years later. Having started acting in middle school, it wasn’t until he started a degree in psychology that he decided to pursue a career in acting, upon seeing Aaron YOO, an American actor of Korean descent, in the thriller <Disturbia> (2007). He debuted in 2010 with a role in two episodes of the sitcom <Victorious>, before appearing as a guest in an episode of family sitcom <Modern Family>. He also joined East West Players, the oldest Asian American theatre troupe, with which he performed <Wrinkles>, and worked with filmmaking group Wong Fu Productions on several short movies published online. He got his first big role in 2011 for the fantasy drama series <The Nine Lives of Chloe King>, and in 2013, he was cast for the role of Minho in science fiction film <The Maze Runner> (2014), adapted from the novel of the same name. Although this is considered as his first feature film, it has to be noted that he had previously taken part in a feature-length adaptation of David Henry HWANG’s play <Yellow Face> mixing theatre and film that was released in 2013 on YouTube funded channel YOMYOMF. The success of <The Maze Runner> allowed him to gain wide recognition, and he reprised his roles for three sequels, the latter of which hit theaters in 2018. He also landed in 2015 a recurring role in Netflix sitcom <Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt>, and had the chance to meet none other than his model Aaron YOO in Wong Fu Productions’ first feature film <Everything Before Us> (2015). He has so far appeared only once in a Korean film, in a cameo for political thriller <The Mayor> (2017). Less