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| Born | Shannon Emery Lee April 19, 1969 Santa Monica, California, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Businessperson, actress | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years active | 1993–present | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse |
Anthony Ian Keasler (m. 1994) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Children | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Relatives | Brandon Lee (brother) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Martial arts career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Style | Jeet Kune Do Taekwondo Wushu Kickboxing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Teacher(s) | Richard Bustillo (Jeet Kune Do) Ted Wong (Jeet Kune Do) Tan Tao-liang (Taekwondo) Eric Chen (Wushu) Benny Urquidez (Kickboxing) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Also known as | Shan Shan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Chinese | 李香凝 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Shannon Emery Lee (born April 19, 1969) is an American actress, martial artist and businessperson. She is the only living child of martial artist Bruce Lee and retired martial arts teacher Linda Lee Cadwell, the granddaughter of Cantonese opera singer Lee Hoi-chuen, and the younger sister of actor Brandon Lee.[1]
Early life
Shannon was born on April 19, 1969, at UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica in Santa Monica, California.[2] She is the youngest child and only daughter of martial arts film star Bruce Lee and Linda Emery. In her youth she studied Jeet Kune Do, the martial art created by her father, under Richard Bustillo, one of her father's students.
Career
In 1993, Lee played a party singer in her father's biopic Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story.[3] In 1994, she acted in Cage II.[4] In 1997, Lee acted in High Voltage.[5]
In 1998, Lee acted in the Hong Kong action film Enter the Eagles, directed by Corey Yuen, co-starring Michael Wong and Anita Yuen. In the film, Lee had a fight scene with Benny Urquidez, who went on to teach her kickboxing.[6] On television, she guest-starred in an episode of the television series Martial Law alongside Sammo Hung.
In 2000, Lee sang a cover of "I'm in the Mood for Love" for the film China Strike Force directed by Stanley Tong.[citation needed]
Lee appeared in the sci-fi television film Epoch, which first aired on the Sci Fi Channel in 2001. That same year, she played the leading role in the action film Lessons for an Assassin. She was also the host of the first season of the game show WMAC Masters.
Lee sang on the band Medicine's album The Mechanical Forces of Love in 2003.[citation needed]
Lee is president of the Bruce Lee Foundation.[7] She was the executive producer of the 2008 television series The Legend of Bruce Lee, based on her father's life, and the 2009 documentary film How Bruce Lee Changed the World.[8]
In 2015, Perfect Storm Entertainment and Shannon Lee announced that the series Warrior, based on an original idea by Bruce Lee, would be produced and air on Cinemax. Filmmaker Justin Lin was chosen to direct the series,[9][10] which debuted April 5, 2019.[10]
Personal life
Lee's former husband was Anthony Ian Keasler. They share a daughter named Wren.[11]
Lee is the daughter of Bruce Lee, granddaughter of Lee Hoi-chuen, sister of Brandon Lee, and niece of Robert Lee Jun-fai and Peter Lee Jung-sum.[citation needed] Lee's paternal great-grandfather was Ho Kom Tong, half-brother of Robert Hotung.[12]
Martial arts
In her youth, Lee studied Jeet Kune Do, with her father's disciple Richard Bustillo, but did not practice it seriously until the late 1990s. To train for parts in action movies, she studied Jeet Kune Do with Ted Wong.[6]
She studied Taekwondo under Tan Tao-liang AKA "Flash Legs" and Wushu under Eric Chen. She also studied under the tutelage of the director of Enter the Eagles, Yuen De, Jackie Chan's Chinese opera brother. Because the film Enter the Eagles required her to fight Benny Urquidez, Urquidez himself taught her kickboxing.[6]
Filmography
| Film | |||
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| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1993 | Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story | Party Singer | |
| 1994 | Cage II | Milo | |
| 1997 | High Voltage | Jane Logan | |
| 1998 | Enter the Eagles | Mandy | Alternative title: Gwan Guen See Dam |
| 1998 | Blade | Resident | |
| 2001 | Lessons for an Assassin | Fiona | |
| 2002 | She, Me and Her | Paula Jemison | |
| 2020 | Be Water | Self | |
| Television | |||
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1995 | WMAC Masters | Host | 13 episodes |
| 1998 | Martial Law | Vanessa Feng | Episode: "Take Out" |
| 2000 | Epoch | Pamela | Television film |
| 2012 | I Am Bruce Lee | Executive producer, herself | Television documentary |
| 2019–present | Warrior | Executive producer | Television series |
References
- ^ "Lee, Bruce, (1940–1973) Martial Arts Master and Film Maker", HistoryLink.org. Retrieved January 1, 2011.
- ^ "Lee, Bruce (1940-1973)". www.historylink.org. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
- ^ "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved August 1, 2021.
- ^ "Cage 2: Arena of Death". TVGuide.com. Retrieved August 1, 2021.
- ^ "High Voltage". TVGuide.com. Retrieved August 1, 2021.
- ^ a b c Reid, Dr. Craig D. (1999). "Shannon Lee: Emerging From the Shadows of Bruce Lee, the Butterfly Spreads her Wings". Black Belt. 37 (10): 33.
- ^ Bruce Lee Foundation website. Retrieved December 10, 2014.
- ^ Bellafante, Ginia (May 15, 2009). "The Hagiography of the Dragon, a Continuing Saga". The New York Times.
- ^ Andreeva, Nellie (May 21, 2015). "Cinemax Developing Bruce Lee-Inspired Crime Drama 'Warrior' From Justin Lin".
- ^ a b Cecchini, Mike (August 22, 2018). "Warrior: First Teaser for Bruce Lee Inspired TV Series". Denofgeek.
- ^ "Shannon Lee & Daughter Wren Lee Keasler Wish Bruce Lee A Happy 80th!". YouTube. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
- ^ Russo, Charles (May 19, 2016). "Was Bruce Lee of English Descent?". Vice. Retrieved February 16, 2020.
Further reading
- Wolfe, April (September 6, 2016), "How Bruce Lee's Daughter Is Sharing His Philosophies With the Digital Generation", LA Weekly
External links
- Shannon Lee at IMDb
- Shannon Lee discography at Discogs
- The Bruce Lee Foundation Official Website
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- Living people
- American actresses of Chinese descent
- American film actresses
- Television personalities from Los Angeles
- American women television personalities
- Television producers from California
- American women television producers
- American Jeet Kune Do practitioners
- American female kickboxers
- American wushu practitioners
- American female taekwondo practitioners
- Actresses from Los Angeles
- People from Rolling Hills, California
- Actresses from Seattle
- 20th-century American actresses
- 21st-century American actresses
- American rock singers
- American people of Dutch-Jewish descent
- Chinese Jeet Kune Do practitioners
- Family of Bruce Lee