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Paul Sun-Hyung Lee (born August 16, 1972) is a Korean-Canadian actor and television host. He is best known for his roles as Randy Ko in the soap opera Train 48 (2003–2005) and as family patriarch Appa in the play Kim's Convenience (2011) and its television adaptation (2016–2021).

Paul Sun-Hyung Lee
Lee in 2017
Born	(1972-08-16) August 16, 1972 (age 50) Daejeon, South Korea
Nationality	South Korean Canadian
Years active	1995-present
Korean name
Hangul	이선형
Revised Romanization	Yi Seon-hyeong
McCune–Reischauer	Yi Sŏnhyŏng

Lee has won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series four times for his role as Mr. Kim in Kim's Convenience, and has been nominated twice for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male in a Principal Role, Large Theatre, for The Monster Under the Bed in 2010 and the stage version of Kim's Convenience in 2012.

Early life

When Lee was three months old, his parents immigrated from Daejeon, South Korea to Canada, living in London, Toronto and Calgary.[1] In 1990, he moved back to Toronto to attend the University of Toronto, where he attended but did not complete the drama program at University College.[2]

Career

He had a supporting role in the film Ice Princess (2005) playing Tiffany's father. Lee appeared in the horror film P2 and the thriller The Echo. In 2006, he took the role of Jung Park in the video game Rainbow Six: Vegas and its 2008 sequel Rainbow Six: Vegas 2.[3]

Lee was part of the main cast of the Global nightly improvised soap opera Train 48 in the role of Randy Ko for the entire run of the series from 2003 to 2005.[4]

In 2012, Lee won the Best Actor citation from the Toronto Theatre Critics' Awards for his portrayal of Kim Sang-il in Kim's Convenience.[5] He played the role of Appa on stage in several Toronto productions of Kim's Convenience and on a national tour with the Soulpepper theatre company, as well as at an Off Broadway staging of the play.[4] He brought the role of Appa to television in 2016 when the show was adapted as a television series.[4] In 2016, Lee played Zhang Lin in the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre/Canadian Stage production of Chimerica.[6] On January 11, 2017, he guest starred on an episode of This Hour Has 22 Minutes.

Lee has been nominated twice for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male in a Principal Role, Large Theatre, for The Monster Under the Bed in 2010 and Kim's Convenience in 2012.[7] In the 5th, 6th, and 9th Canadian Screen Awards, he won the Best Actor in a Comedy Series for his portrayal of Appa in the Kim's Convenience television series.[8] Lee was selected to host the fourth season of the reality competition show Canada's Smartest Person, entitled Canada's Smartest Person Junior and featuring children as contestants.[9]

Lee is also a playwright, with his own play Dangling premiering at Toronto's fu-GEN theatre festival in 2010.[10]

In 2021 he appeared as a panelist on Canada Reads, championing Natalie Zina Walschots's novel Hench.[11] In the same year, Lee's five seasons on Kim's Convenience came to an abrupt end when the two show runners left the project.[12]

In 2022 he was announced as the host of Fandemonium, a factual series which will profile the internal cultures of various pop culture fandoms.[13] He also appeared on the 2022 revival of The Kids in the Hall.[14][15] He is set to play Uncle Iroh in the Netflix live action version of Avatar: The Last Airbender.[16]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Where's the Money Noreen?	Gene Kajikawa	Television film
1996	Harriet the Spy	Bruno Hung Fat
2001	Khaled	Grocer
2002	Tagged: The Jonathan Wamback Story	Doctor	Television film
2003	Profoundly Normal	Delivery Doctor	Television film
2005	Ice Princess	Tiffany Lai's Dad
2006	Between Truth and Lies	D.A. Lee	Television film
2006	One Way	Hotel Receptionist
2007	P2	Man in Elevator
2015	End of Days, Inc.[17]	Mort
2020	Kitty Mammas	Dr. Han
2021	Boyfriends of Christmas Past	Leo Kim	Television film

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	Total Recall 2070	Waiter	Episode: "Rough Whimper of Insanity"
2002	Soul Food: The Series	Dan Lee	Episode: "A Taste of Justice"
2002	Doc	Orderly	Episode: "Complicated"
2003–2005	Train 48	Randy Ko	Main role, 3 seasons
2004	Kevin Hill	Phil Steckler	Episode: "The Good Life"
2005	This Is Wonderland	Mr. Phan	Episode: "Episode #2.9"
2005	1-800-Missing	Dr. Winston Nakano	Episode: "Fugitive"
2006	Billable Hours	Paul	Episode: "The Handicapped Bathroom"
2007	The Jane Show	E.R. Doctor	Episode: "Plastic Ono Jane"
2007	Mayday	Captain Park Yong-chul	Episode: "Missed Approach" (Season 4, Episode 4)
2008	Little Mosque on the Prairie	Airport Security Guard Clask	Episode: "Islam on Tap"
2010	Covert Affairs	Theo Will	2 episodes
2010–2011	Degrassi: The Next Generation	Juan Tong	6 episodes
2016–2021	Kim's Convenience	Sang-Il Kim (Appa)	Main role, 5 seasons Canadian Screen Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series, 5th (2017) and 6th (2018); nominated 8th (2020)
2017	Dark Matter	Dr. Borsin	Episode: "It Doesn't Have to Be Like This"
2018	Canada's Smartest Person Junior	Host	Season 4 of Smartest Person series
2019–present	Abby Hatcher	Chef Jeff	Voice role
2019–present	The Bravest Knight	The Potion Maker	Voice role [18]
2020	The Mandalorian	Captain Carson Teva	2 episodes[19][20][21]
2021	Private Eyes	Chef Andre	Episode: "The Perfect Storm"
2021	Bakugan: Geogan Rising	Spartillion	Voice role
2022	The Book of Boba Fett	Captain Carson Teva	Episode: “Chapter 5: Return of the Mandalorian”
2022	The Kids in the Hall	TBA	Episode TBA
TBA	Avatar: The Last Airbender	Uncle Iroh	[22]

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Rainbow Six: Vegas	Jung Park
2008	Rainbow Six: Vegas 2

References

External links

• Paul Sun-Hyung Lee at IMDb
• BitterAsianDude.com Personal website

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