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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1977-03-15 (48 years old)

Place of Birth

Okinawa, Japan

Brian Tee

Biography:

Brian Tee (born Jae-Beom Takata) is a Japanese-born American actor. At the age of two, he and his family moved from Japan to Hacienda Heights, CA. He is most known for his starring role as Dr. Ethan Choi on NBC's Chicago Med and for his role as D.K. Takashi in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.

In James Mangold's The Wolverine (2013), starring Hugh Jackman, Tee played Noburo Mori, a sadistic minister of justice arranged to marry the daughter of the Yakuza Boss. He played Shredder in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, the 2016 sequel to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Known For

Acting

2024

Expats as Clarke

2022

Baymax! as Yukio (voice)
Reacher as Quinn

2017

Roswell FM as Dwayne Archimedes

2016

Lucifer as Ben Rogers

2015

Jurassic World as Hamada
Chicago Med as Dr. Ethan Choi
Zoo as Philip Weber

2014

One Christmas Eve as Dr. Chen
Legends as Paul Chang
Chicago P.D. as Jesse Kong
Chicago P.D. as Ethan Choi

2013

The Wolverine as Noburo Mori

2012

Baby Daddy as Tommy Kwan
Chicago Fire as Ethan Choi

2011

The Historian Paradox as Avith Kang
Grimm as Akira Kimura

2010

Chain Letter as Brian Yee
Sym-Bionic Titan as Mike Chan (voice)
Shake It Up as Mr. Itou
Hawaii Five-0 as Hideaki Kuroda

2009

Deadland as Jax
Lie to Me as Bodyguard (Han Yong-Dae)

2008

Crash as Eddie Choi

2007

Burn Notice as Takeda

2006

All In as Rosenbloom Player 2
Jericho as Cheung
The Unit as Rebel Leader

2005

Zoey 101 as Kazu
Bones as Ken Nakamura
Grey's Anatomy as Andy Meltzer

2004

Tiger Cruise as MA2 Chan
Entourage as Fukijama Crew Member

2002

We Were Soldiers as Pfc. Jimmy Nakayama
Austin Powers in Goldmember as Japanese Pedestrian
Monk as James Lu

2001

2000

What Planet Are You From? as Alien (uncredited)

1999

Family Law as DEA Agent

1997

1996

The Pretender as Male Agent

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Directing

2015

Chicago Med as Director