Hangul 이선형 Role Actor Name Paul Hyung | McCune–Reischauer Yi Sonhyong | |
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Movies and TV shows P2, Ice Princess, RoboCop, End Of Days - Inc, Covert Affairs Similar People Franck Khalfoun, Tim Fywell, Yam Laranas, Cle Bennett, Jose Padilha | ||
Revised Romanization Yi Seon-hyeong | ||
Paul sun hyung lee 2017 canadian screen awards
Paul Sun-Hyung Lee (born 1972) is a Korean Canadian actor. He is perhaps best known for his role in the television series Train 48 and as Appa in the 2011 play Kim's Convenience, as well as its television adaptation.
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- Paul sun hyung lee 2017 canadian screen awards
- Ins choi paul sun hyung lee on kim s convenience
- Early life
- Career
- Filmography
- Television
- References
Ins choi paul sun hyung lee on kim s convenience
Early life
When Lee was three months old, his parents immigrated to Canada, living in London, Toronto, and Calgary. In 1990, he moved back to Toronto to attend the University of Toronto, where he attended but did not complete the drama programme at University College.
Career
He had a supporting role in the film Ice Princess (2005) playing Tiffany's father. Lee appeared in the horror film P2 and the thriller The Echo. In 2006 he took the role of Jung Park in the videogame Rainbow Six: Vegas and its 2008 sequel Rainbow Six: Vegas 2
Lee was part of the main cast of the Global Television nightly improvised soap opera Train 48 in the role of Randy Ko for the entire run of the series from 2003 to 2005.
In 2012, Lee won the Best Actor citation from the Toronto Theatre Critics' Awards for his portrayal of Appa in Kim's Convenience. He played the role on Appa on stage in several Toronto productions of Kim's Convenience and on a national tour with the Soulpepper theatre company, as well as at an Off Broadway staging of the play. He brought the role of Appa to television in 2016 when the show was adapted as a television series. On January 11, 2017, he guest starred on an episode of This Hour Has 22 Minutes.
Lee has been nominated twice for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male in a Principal Role, Large Theatre, for The Monster Under the Bed in 2010 and Kim's Convenience in 2012. At the 2017 Canadian Screen Awards, he won the award for Best Actor in a Continuing Leading Comedic Role for his portrayal of Appa in the Kim's Convenience television series.
Lee has also been a playwright, with his own play Dangling premiering at Toronto's fu-GEN theatre festival in 2010.