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Sang-yeop Yeun, known professionally as Steven Yeun, is an American actor. He rose to prominence for playing Glenn Rhee in the television series The Walking Dead (2010–2016). He earned critical acclaim for the films Burning (2018) and Minari (2020). For the latter, he became the first East Asian-American nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most in…
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entertainment · South Korean and American actor (born 1983) · voice actor · stage actor · film actor · television actor · restaurateur · actor · singer · also Steven Yeun, Yeon Sang-yeop, Yeun
Born 21 December 1983 · Q552176
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That’s a thing we’ll constantly navigate.
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“as long as what we’re trying to access is this larger human thing. I’m not specifically trying to escape any gaze. I’m trying to speak from my own place. Even if it’s a production written by someone not like me, I’m happy to engage, always.”
“That’s a thing we’ll constantly navigate.”
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film for Beef (2023).
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for Beef (2023).
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Yeun starred opposite Ali Wong in the Netflix dark comedy series Beef, for which he also served as executive producer
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Co-starred alongside Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer in Jordan Peele's science fiction horror film Nope, as Ricky "Jupe" Park, the owner of the fictional theme park Jupiter's Claim
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Awarded Time 100 (2021).
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Was included in the Time 100, Time's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world
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Co-starred alongside Jayne Houdyshell, Richard Jenkins and Amy Schumer, in Stephen Karam's award-winning one-act play adaptation The Humans
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Yeun starred in and served as an executive producer for Lee Isaac Chung's A24 immigrant drama Minari, which also includes Youn Yuh-jung, Han Ye-ri, Alan Kim, Noel Kate Cho, Will Patton and Scott Haze among the cast
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And the second and final season was released on July 12, 2019
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Involves a group of characters who fight to survive in a violent apocalyptic world infested with flesh-eating zombies
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Living in the city's Lincoln Square with his brother
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To Canada, where they lived in Regina, Saskatchewan
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Born 1983-12-21.
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