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Byron Mann (born 13 August 1967), is a Hong Kong-American actor of film and television. His best-known roles include Ryu in Street Fighter, Silver Lion in The Man with the Iron Fists, Wing Chau in The Big Short, Admiral Augusto Nguyen on The Expanse, Chang on Hell on Wheels, Yao Fei on Arrow,[1] and Uncle Six in the Netflix series Wu Assassins.[2]

Byron Mann
文峰
Mann in July 2018, at a Skyscraper press conference in Beijing.
Born	(1967-08-13) August 13, 1967 (age 55) British Hong Kong
Nationality	American
Alma mater	USC Gould School of Law University of California, Los Angeles
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1992–present
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	文峰
Simplified Chinese	文峰
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Wén Fēng Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Man4 Fung1

Early life and education

Mann was born in Hong Kong, and was raised bilingual in English and Cantonese.[3] Mann attended the Diocesan Boys' School,[3] an all-boys secondary school in Hong Kong, where he was active in community theatre as both an actor and a writer. After graduating, Mann moved to California.

Mann received a degree in philosophy from UCLA in Los Angeles, California.[4] 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.[5] He returned to Los Angeles, graduated from USC Law, passed the California bar,[4] and pursued acting full-time.

Career

In 1994, Mann's acting career began. Mann starred in films such as Red Corner and The Corruptor,[6] and in the television show Dark Angel, and has also co-starred in Catwoman[4] and Invincible. He is best known as Ryu in Street Fighter[3] (starring alongside Jean-Claude Van Damme and Raúl Juliá) and Koh in the manga-based movie Crying Freeman. In 2012, Mann starred alongside Russell Crowe and Lucy Liu in The Man with the Iron Fists, directed by RZA, and presented by Quentin Tarantino.[4] In 2015, Mann appeared in The Big Short, a Paramount Pictures feature film directed by Adam McKay, alongside Brad Pitt, Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling and Steve Carell.[4] He also was a series regular on AMC's Hell on Wheels, playing the powerful railroad mercenary Chang.[4][5] In 2018, Mann was a recurring character on Netflix's Altered Carbon.[7]

In June 2018, it was announced that Mann was cast in the series regular role of Uncle Six on the Netflix series, Wu Assassins.[8]

Personal life

Mann is interested in sports, especially tennis and golf. He was at one point a top-ranked tennis player, under 16 division, in Hong Kong.[3] He is also a wushu practitioner, displaying his skills in a number of movies including Invincible and Street Fighter.

Mann is fluent in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin, and speaks some Thai after having learned it for his role in the 2013 film A Stranger in Paradise.

Awards and nominations

In 2016, Mann was nominated for the Golden Maple Award for Best Actor in a TV series broadcast in the U.S. for his role on Hell on Wheels.[9]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role
1992	Ghost Ship	Charlie
1994	Possessed by the Night	Fok Ping Wong
	Deadly Target	Chang
	Street Fighter	Ryu Hoshi
1995	Crying Freeman	Koh
1997	Red Corner	Lin Dan
1998	American Dragons	'Shadow'
1999	The Corruptor	Bobby Vu
2003	Belly of the Beast	Sunti
2004	Catwoman	Wesley
	Sniper 3	Detective Quan
2007	Shanghai Kiss	Jai Li
	The Counting House	Jackie
	Blonde and Blonder	Mr. Wong
2009	Motherland	Michael Wong
	A Dangerous Man	The Colonel
2012	Cold War	Chan Bin
	The Man with the Iron Fists	Silver Lion
2013	A Stranger in Paradise	Lek
2014	Rise of the Legend	Black Crow
2015	Absolution	Chi
	Jasmine	The Suspect
	The Big Short	Wing Chau
2018	Skyscraper	Inspector Wu
2019	Don't Let Go	Sergeant Roger Martin

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	Last Flight Out		TV film
1992	Tequila and Bonetti	Jeffrey Han	Episode: "Brooklyn and the Beast"
1993	Murphy Brown	Quan Chang	Episodes: "The Young & the Rest of Us"
1994	Time Trax	Taki	Episodes: "Return of the Yakuza"
	Galaxy Beat	Two-headed Man	TV film
1996	Murder, She Wrote	Yosuki Ishida	Episode: "Kendo Killing"
	Pacific Blue	Marlon Ky	Episode: "The Enemy Within"
1997	The Sentinel	Tommy Wu	Episode: "Poachers"
1999	Martial Law	Ataru Nakamura	Episode: "This Shogun For Hire"
2000	Walker, Texas Ranger	P.K. Song	Episode: "Black Dragons"
2000–02	Dark Angel	Detective Matt Sung	Recurring role (8 episodes)
2001	UC: Undercover	Simon Shen	Episode: "Amerikaz Most Wanted"
2002	Robbery Homicide Division	Twan Kee	Episode: "Life is Dust"
2003	Invincible	Michael Fu	TV film
	First to Die	Derek Lee	TV film
2003–05	Smallville	Commander Cheng / Kern	2 episodes
2004	Petits Mythes urbains	Dr. Shaw / Dr. Lee	Episode: "Scalpel illégitime"
2006	Fallen	Samchiel	Miniseries
2007	Nobody	Mr. North	TV film
	Dragon Boys	Tommy Jiang	Miniseries
2009	The Unit	Stanley Wu	Episode: "Bad Beat"
2010	Durham County	Julian Cho	Recurring role (3 episodes)
	Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures	Chen	Miniseries
	Burn Notice	Ming Khan	Episode: "Fast Friends"
2011	Befriend and Betray	Winstead P.C. Lau	TV film
	True Justice	Savon	Episode: "Street Wars: Part 2"
2012	Arctic Air	Gavin	Episode: "New North"
	Nikita	Agent Li Bai	Episode: "3.0"
2012–19	Arrow	Yao Fei Gulong	Recurring role (14 episodes)
2014	The Novice	Johnny Joo	TV film
	Hawaii Five-0	Fire Captain Hank Iona	Episode: "Ku I Ka Pili Koko"
2015	CSI: Cyber	Jordan Tan	Episode: "URL, Interrupted"
2015–16	Hell on Wheels	Chang	Recurring role (9 episodes)
2016	Rush Hour	Fong	Recurring role (2 episodes)
	NCIS: Los Angeles	Zhang Kiu	Episode: "Black Market"
2016–18	Blood and Water	Evan Ong	Recurring role (16 episodes)
2017–18	The Expanse	Admiral Augusto Nguyễn	Recurring role (8 episodes)
2018	Altered Carbon	Takeshi Kovacs / Dimitri Kadmin	Recurring role (3 episodes)
2019	Wu Assassins	Uncle Six	Main cast
2020	Little Fires Everywhere	Ed Jan	Recurring role (3 episodes)
	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.	Li	Episode: "After, Before"
2022	Blood & Treasure	Vince Tran	Recurring role (4 episodes)
TBA	The Recruit	Xander

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2012	Sleeping Dogs	Raymond Mak & Pockmark Cheuk (voices)
2012	Call of Duty: Black Ops II	General Tian Zhao (voice)	Also motion capture

References

External links

• Byron Mann at IMDb 
• Byron Mann on Instagram
• Byron Mann at Rotten Tomatoes

На других языках

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[de] Byron Mann

Byron Mann (chinesisch .mw-parser-output .Hani{font-size:110%}文峰, Pinyin Wén Fēng, Jyutping Man4 Fung1; * 13. August 1967 in Hongkong als Byron Chan) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler.

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[es] Byron Mann

Byron Mann (chino : 文峰; pinyin : Wen Feng) (Hong Kong; 27 de enero de 1967) es un actor hongkonés que ha hecho películas en Hollywood y en Asia.

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[ru] Манн, Байрон

Ба́йрон Манн (кит. 文峰) (род. 13 августа 1967)[1] — американский актёр, снимался как в голливудских, так и в азиатских фильмах. Наиболее известен по роли Рю в фильме 1994 года «Уличный боец».

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