| Intro | American actor | ||
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| From | United States of America | ||
| Type | Film, TV, Stage & Radio | ||
| Gender | male | ||
| Birth | 15 March 1977, Okinawa, Japan | ||
| Age: | 43 years | ||
| Star sign | Pisces | ||
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Jaebeom Takata (Japanese: 高田 ゼボム, Takata Zebomu; born March 15, 1977), known professionally as Brian Tee, is a Japanese–American actor best known for his starring role as Dr. Ethan Choi in the NBC medical drama Chicago Med and its spin-offs and has appeared in numerous films and television series including The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, The Wolverine, Mortal Kombat: Legacy, Jurassic World and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows.
Early life
Tee was born Jaebeom Takata in Okinawa, to a Korean (Zainichi Korean) mother and a Japanese American father. At the age of two, he moved to Hacienda Heights, California, and was raised in Southern California. He attended Glen A. Wilson High School where he was Associated Student Body president and captain of the football team. While in high school, he worked at Blackjack Pizza.
Tee graduated from University of California, Berkeley with a degree in theater and performing arts. Not long after graduating he adopted his “culturally ambiguous” stage name Brian Tee after being rejected by a Korean director at an audition for having a Japanese last name.
Career
Tee played Kazu, the owner of Sushi Rox, on Nickelodeon’s Zoey 101. He played Eddie Choi in Crash. He also starred as Akira Kimura on Grimm and Takeda on Burn Notice. He also appeared in the season 4 episode “The Girl in the Mask” as Ken Nakamura on the series Bones. He has also played Dwayne Archimedes in the indie Feature film Roswell FM. Tee has also appeared in an episode in the first season of the television series Dark Blue as a Korean criminal. He also had a short part in Austin Powers in Goldmember as a pedestrian (“Run! It’s Goldzilla!”; “Still we should run like it is Godzilla!”). Brian can also be seen as a contestant on an episode of Hollywood Squares hosted by Tom Bergeron. He played in 1999 against a woman named Heidi.
Tee was also in the music video “Dance Like Michael Jackson” by Far East Movement.
In James Mangold’s The Wolverine (2013), starring Hugh Jackman, Tee played Noburo Mori, a sadistic minister of justice arranged to marry the daughter of Yakuza Boss Shingen Yashida (Hiroyuki Sanada).
Tee took on the role of Liu Kang in the YouTube series Mortal Kombat Legacy.
Tee appeared in the Television film The Gabby Douglas Story on October 18, 2013, where he played her coach Liang Chow, which aired in 2014 on Lifetime.
Tee co-starred in the 2015 film Jurassic World where he played Hamada, a high-ranking commander who works for the Asset Containment Unit (ACU).
Tee played Shredder in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, the 2016 sequel to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles where the role was previously portrayed by Tohoru Masamune.
On July 20, 2015, Tee signed on to co-star in the NBC medical drama Chicago Med as Dr. Ethan Choi. He had previously appeared on its sister show Chicago P.D. as a Chinese gangster in season 2.
Personal life
Besides English, Tee speaks fluent Japanese and Korean. He is married to actress Mirelly Taylor and has a daughter named Madelyn Skyler Tee, born in 2015.