Byron Mann
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Byron Mann is an actor who has made films in both Hollywood and Asia. He starred in films such as "Red Corner" and "The Corruptor," and in the television show Dark Angel, and has also co-starred in Catwoman and Invincible. He is best known as Koh in the manga-based movie Crying Freeman.
Byron is interested in sports, especially tennis and golf. He was at one point a top-ranked tennis player in Hong Kong. He is also an accomplished Wushu practioner, having displayed his skills in a number of movies including Invincible and Street Fighter (in which he portrayed Ryu.)
Byron Mann attended a British all-boys high school, where he was active in community theatre as both an actor and a writer. After graduating, Byron moved to California to study philosophy even though acting remained important to him. After college, Byron attended law school, but took a sabbatical after the first year. Back in Hong Kong, he received an acting role in the TV movie Last Flight Out. He returned to Los Angeles, California, passed the California bar, and pursued acting full time.
[edit] Filmography
- Last Flight Out (1990) (TV)
- Ghost Ship (1992) — Charlie
- Murphy Brown — Quan Chang
- Time Trax — Taki
- Possessed by the Night (1994) — Fok Ping Wong
- Deadly Target (1994) — Chang
- Street Fighter (1994) — Ryu Hoshi
- Street Fighter: The Movie video game (1995) — Ryu
- Crying Freeman (1995) — Koh
- Murder, She Wrote — Yosuki Ishida
- Pacific Blue — Marlon Ky
- The Sentinel — Tommy Wu
- Red Corner (1997) — Lin Dan
- American Dragons (1998) — Shadow
- The Corruptor (1999) — Bobby Vu
- Martial Law — Ataru Nakamura
- Walker, Texas Ranger — P.K. Song
- UC: Undercover — Simon Shen
- Invincible (2001) — Michael Fu
- The Chang Family Saves the World (2002)
- Dark Angel
- Robbery Homicide Division
- 1st to Die (2003) (TV) — Derek Lee
- Belly of the Beast (2003) — Sunti
- Petits mythes urbains
- Catwoman (2004) — Wesley
- Sniper 3 (2004) — Quan
- Smallville
- Fallen (2006) — Samchiel
- The Counting House (2006) — Jackie
- Dragon Boys (2007) — Tommy Jiang
- Shanghai Kiss (2007) — Jai Li
- Blonde and Blonder (2007) — Mr. Wong
