Byron Mann
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Byron Mann (Chinese: 文峰; pinyin: Wén Fēng) is an actor who has made films in both Hollywood and Asia.
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[edit] Biography
Mann was born in Hong Kong. Mann attended a British all-boys high school, where he was active in community theatre as both an actor and a writer. After graduating, Byron moved to California to study and receive a degree in philosophy at UCLA even though acting remained important to him. After college, Byron attended USC Law School, but took a sabbatical after the first year. Back in Hong Kong, he received an acting role in the NBC Movie TV movie Last Flight Out. He returned to Los Angeles, California, graduated from USC Law, passed the California bar, and pursued acting full time.
He starred in films such as "Red Corner" and "The Corruptor," and in the television show Dark Angel, and has also co-starred in Catwoman and Invincible. He is best known as Ryu in Street Fighter and Koh in the manga-based movie Crying Freeman.
Mann is interested in sports, especially tennis and golf. He was at one point a top-ranked tennis player in Hong Kong. He is also a Wushu practitioner, having displayed his skills in a number of movies including Invincible and Street Fighter (in which he portrayed Ryu.)
[edit] Filmography
- Last Flight Out (1990) (TV)
- Ghost Ship (1992) — Charlie
- Murphy Brown — Quan Chang
- Time Trax — Taki
- Possessed by the Night (1994) — Fok Ping Wong
- Deadly Target (1994) — Chang
- Street Fighter (1994) — Ryu Hoshi
- Street Fighter: The Movie video game (1995) — Ryu
- Crying Freeman (1995) — Koh
- Murder, She Wrote — Yosuki Ishida
- Pacific Blue — Marlon Ky
- The Sentinel — Tommy Wu
- Red Corner (1997) — Lin Dan
- American Dragons (1998) — Shadow
- The Corruptor (1999) — Bobby Vu
- Martial Law — Ataru Nakamura
- Walker, Texas Ranger — P.K. Song
- UC: Undercover — Simon Shen
- Invincible (2001) — Michael Fu
- The Chang Family Saves the World (2002)
- Dark Angel
- Robbery Homicide Division
- 1st to Die (2003) (TV) — Derek Lee
- Belly of the Beast (2003) — Sunti
- Petits mythes urbains
- Catwoman (2004) — Wesley
- Sniper 3 (2004) — Quan
- Smallville
- Fallen (2006) — Samchiel
- The Counting House (2006) — Jackie
- Dragon Boys (2007) — Tommy Jiang
- Shanghai Kiss (2007) — Jai Li
- Blonde and Blonder (2007) — Mr. Wong
- The Unit (2009) — Stanley Wu
- Motherland (2009) — Michael Wong
- On the Run (2009) — The Colonel
- 39 (2009) — Kenny
- Vauxhall Crossed (2010) — Michael Wong
- Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures (2010) — Chen
