Shannon Emery Lee Keasler (born April 19, 1969) is an American actress, martial artist, and businesswoman. 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]

Shannon Lee
李香凝
Lee in 2019
Born	Shannon Emery Lee (1969-04-19) April 19, 1969 (age 53) Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Occupation	Businesswoman, actress
Years active	1993–present
Spouse	Ian Keasler ​ (m. 1994)​
Children	1
Parents	Bruce Lee (father) Linda Lee Cadwell (mother)
Relatives	Lee Hoi-chuen (grandfather) Peter Lee Jung-sum (uncle) Robert Lee Jun-fai (uncle) 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)
Musical career
Also known as	Shan Shan
Musical artist
Chinese name
Chinese	李香凝
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Lǐ Xiāngníng Wade–Giles Li Hsiang-ning Tongyong Pinyin Lǐ Siāngníng Yale Romanization Lǐ Syāngníng IPA [lì ɕjáŋnǐŋ] Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Leíh Heūng-yìhng Jyutping Lei5 Heung1-ing4 IPA [le̬i hœ́ːŋ jɪ̏ŋ] Southern Min Hokkien POJ Lí Hiuⁿ-gêng

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 husband is Ian Keasler. They share a daughter named Wren.[11]

Lee is the daughter of Bruce Lee, granddaughter of Lee Hoi-chuen and Grace Ho, 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

References

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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