Lee Byung Hun
Lee Byung Hun's work has received critical acclaim across a wide range of genres. Inside Men (2015), his critically acclaimed film, earned him Best Actor honors at three prestigious award ceremonies: the 52nd Baeksang Art Awards, the 37th Blue Dragon Awards, and the 53rd Grand Bell Awards. Lee has five films on the list of highest-grossing films in South Korea: Joint Security Area, The Good, the Bad, the Weird, Masquerade, Inside Men, and Master. Lee was named Gallup Korea's Actor of the Year in both the film and television categories in 2012. He had a recurring role as the Front Man in the Netflix survival drama series Squid Game in 2021.
In the U.S., he is best known for playing Storm Shadow in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) and its sequel G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013), as well as co-starring in Red 2 with Bruce Willis (2013). In Terminator Genisys (2015), he played T-1000, in The Magnificent Seven (2016), he played Billy Rocks, a knife-wielding gunslinger, and in Squid Game (2021), he played the Front Man. Lee is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and was the first South Korean actor to present an Oscar at the annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles.