Full Name Reggie Valdez Occupation Actor | Name Reggie Lee Role Film actor | |
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Parents Jesus Espiritu Valdez, Zenaida Telmo Siblings Nathan Valdez, R.V. Valdez Movies and TV shows Similar People Russell Hornsby, Sasha Roiz, Silas Weir Mitchell, David Giuntoli, Bree Turner Profiles | ||
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Reggie Valdez (born October 4, 1975), known professionally as Reggie Lee, is a Filipino-American stage, film, and television actor. He has played William Kim on the show Prison Break and Sergeant Drew Wu on Grimm. In film, he appeared as Tai Huang in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Ross, a police officer in The Dark Knight Rises, and Lance Nguyen in The Fast and the Furious.
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- grimm actor reggie lee grateful to kababayans for successful aswang episode
- Early life
- Career
- Personal life
- Miscellaneous crew
- References
Early life
Valdez was born in Quezon City, Philippines, to Zenaida Telmo and Jesus Espiritu Valdez. Although fluent in English, he also speaks Tagalog. At the age of five, he moved with his family to the Cleveland, Ohio area, including Parma and Strongsville. While still a student, he performed in shows at the Greenbrier Theatre (now the Cassidy Theatre) in Parma Heights and was an intern at the Cleveland Play House. He graduated from Padua Franciscan High School in Parma.
Although accepted to Harvard, he instead decided to move to Los Angeles to pursue acting. He later changed his last name from Valdez to Lee, stating in a 2001 interview that "they kept calling me in for Hispanic roles, and I'm a far cry from Hispanic"; he took the name Lee from his grandparents.
Career
In 1992, at the age of 17, he moved to Los Angeles, where he joined a national tour of Miss Saigon. He followed that with work as a dancer for Prince on the MTV Video Music Awards and toured nationally with the musical Heartstrings. He was in the original company of the 1994 Broadway revival of Carousel. In 1997, he received a Dramalogue Critics Award for his performance in F.O.B. at East West Players, an Asian-American theatre organization in Los Angeles. With his critical acclaim, Lee also starred in their production of Carry the Tiger to the Mountain.
Since starring as Lance Nguyen—the snakeskin-wearing, motorcycle-riding, cold-blooded killer—in the 2001 Universal film The Fast and the Furious, Lee also appeared as Tai Huang in the Walt Disney film Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. He has played Secret Service Special Agent Bill Kim in the FOX drama Prison Break, a character he describes as "a guilty pleasure to play, wonderfully complex and devious". He also appeared in the independent feature film Chinaman's Chance (2008), about which he said "It's an important story that definitely needs to be told and humanized. Plus I get to play pretend in the Old West. How great is that?"
In 2010, he played the role of Tom in the NBC television series Persons Unknown.
He played Sergeant Wu in the NBC cop drama Grimm.
In 2012, Reggie portrayed the heroic Gotham City police officer Ross who is mercilessly gunned down by one of Bane's thugs in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises.
Personal life
Lee has two younger brothers, musician Nathan and comic book artist R.V. Valdez.