Brandon Lee

Name: Brandon Lee
Date of Birth: February 01, 1965
Place of Birth: Oakland, California, USA

Mini-bio: Brandon Lee was born to the legendary martial artist and actor Bruce Lee and his wife Linda Emery. The family moved to Los Angeles, California when Brandon was three months old, but when offers for fi...( read more)lm roles became limited for his father, the family moved back to his father's childhood home of Hong Kong in 1971. When Brandon was eight, his father died suddenly from a cerebral edema. After her husband's death, Linda Lee moved the family (including daughter Shannon, who was born in 1969) back to the United States. They lived briefly in his mother's hometown of Seattle (where Bruce Lee is buried), and then in Los Angeles, where Brandon grew up in the affluent area of Rolling Hills. According to his mother, he was "a handful" - "either the teacher's pet, or the teacher's nightmare." He attended high school at Chadwick School, but was expelled three months before graduating. He received his GED in 1983, and then went to Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, where he majored in theatre. After one year, Lee moved to New York City, where he took acting lessons at the famed Lee Strasberg Academy, and was part of the American New Theatre group founded by his friend John Lee Hancock.

In 1986, Lee got his first movie role in the Hong Kong action thriller Legacy of Rage in which he starred with Michael Wong and Bolo Yeung, who also appeared in his father's last film, Enter the Dragon. The film was made in Cantonese, and directed by Ronny Yu. It was also the only film Lee made in Hong Kong. Regarding the pressures of being the son of a legendary father, Brandon said, "You only have the burdens on you that you choose to put there." Lee then had a guest appearance in the short-lived American television series Ohara (1988) as Kenji, son of title character Lt. Ohara (played by Pat Morita). 1990 saw the release of his first English language B-grade film, Laser Mission, which was filmed cheaply in South Africa in 1988. In 1991, he starred opposite Dolph Lundgren in Showdown in Little Tokyo, his first studio film and American debut. Lee signed a multi-picture deal with 20th Century Fox in 1991. He then had his first starring role in Rapid Fire, and was slated to do two more films for them. Screenwriter Jonathan Hensleigh wrote a script entitled Simon Says that was originally developed for Lee, but was later used as the blueprint for the movie Die Hard With a Vengeance .

In 1992, Lee landed the lead role of Eric Draven, an undead vigilante avenging his murder, and that of his fiancée, in the movie adaptation of The Crow, a popular underground comic book. About his character Lee said, "He has something he has to do and he is forced to put aside his own pain long enough to go do it." It would be Brandon Lee's last film. A gun used on the set was mysteriously loaded with real bullets. During one scene an actor, thinking it was a prop, shot it at Brandon, causing his death.

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Brandon Lee mini-bio: Brandon Lee was born to the legendary martial artist and actor Bruce Lee and his wife Linda Emery. The family moved to Los Angeles, California when Brandon was three months old, but when offers for film roles became limited for his father, the family moved back to his father's childhood home of Hong Kong in 1971. When Brandon was eight, his father died suddenly from a cerebral edema. After her husband's death, Linda Lee moved the family (including daughter Shannon, who was born in 1969) back to the United States. They lived briefly in his mother's hometown of Seattle (where Bruce Lee is buried), and then in Los Angeles, where Brandon grew up in the affluent area of Rolling Hills. According to his mother, he was "a handful" - "either the teacher's pet, or the teacher's nightmare." He attended high school at Chadwick School, but was expelled three months before graduating. He received his GED in 1983, and then went to Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, where he majored in theatre. After one year, Lee moved to New York City, where he took acting lessons at the famed Lee Strasberg Academy, and was part of the American New Theatre group founded by his friend John Lee Hancock.

In 1986, Lee got his first movie role in the Hong Kong action thriller Legacy of Rage in which he starred with Michael Wong and Bolo Yeung, who also appeared in his father's last film, Enter the Dragon. The film was made in Cantonese, and directed by Ronny Yu. It was also the only film Lee made in Hong Kong. Regarding the pressures of being the son of a legendary father, Brandon said, "You only have the burdens on you that you choose to put there." Lee then had a guest appearance in the short-lived American television series Ohara (1988) as Kenji, son of title character Lt. Ohara (played by Pat Morita). 1990 saw the release of his first English language B-grade film, Laser Mission, which was filmed cheaply in South Africa in 1988. In 1991, he starred opposite Dolph Lundgren in Showdown in Little Tokyo, his first studio film and American debut. Lee signed a multi-picture deal with 20th Century Fox in 1991. He then had his first starring role in Rapid Fire, and was slated to do two more films for them. Screenwriter Jonathan Hensleigh wrote a script entitled Simon Says that was originally developed for Lee, but was later used as the blueprint for the movie Die Hard With a Vengeance .

In 1992, Lee landed the lead role of Eric Draven, an undead vigilante avenging his murder, and that of his fiancée, in the movie adaptation of The Crow, a popular underground comic book. About his character Lee said, "He has something he has to do and he is forced to put aside his own pain long enough to go do it." It would be Brandon Lee's last film. A gun used on the set was mysteriously loaded with real bullets. During one scene an actor, thinking it was a prop, shot it at Brandon, causing his death.

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frecissimo19

... I am really sade with this story... I was looking news from him but didn't knows it end this way...

Watch a couple of his movies and I was wonder to know what happen to that great actor...

Hope his soul rest in peace...

posted 126 days ago
FuzzyEyebrovvv

He is dead young like his father Bruce. Very sad

posted 139 days ago
gerardmcr

Bradon lee was a ledgend to us all and an icon he will never be forgoten R.I.P my friend

posted 142 days ago
snowdragon197

OMG i wanted to cry when i found out that he died the way he did...
R.I.P You Are Misses

posted 161 days ago
MrsVilleValo

A sensation.
A legend.
A hero.
The definition of greatness.
you will be remembered as brandon lee not as the offspring of bruce lee.
you are different people and that will be noted.

posted 228 days ago
Riverfan93

A great actor. I love the movie "The Crow". It's a shame that he's died. He was a great actor. And gave everything in order to make that movie even his own life. RIP Brandon.

posted 340 days ago
ninjabean

Awesome actor...

posted 347 days ago
wazir2hotty

man i miss u. u died when i was young but i still love. RIP Brandon Lee. i love you're movie The Crow i watch it again and again i miss u. i reminds of you when i watch it. and Rapid fire i love as well. rest in peace youre the best of the best, the man the hero. u will always be in our hearts.

posted 408 days ago
darnitalltoheck

A beautiful man who made a name for himself no matter how small his career was or what path he was on he will always be remembered!!!!

posted 417 days ago
666WaterPipe999

brandon i wish u cood live to read this comment well RIP i hope i c ya soon

posted 420 days ago