Byron Mann

Byron Mann (Chinese: 文峰; pinyin: Wén Fēng) is an actor who has made films in both Hollywood and Asia. He is perhaps best known for his performance as Ryu in Street Fighter and Silver Lion in The Man with the Iron Fists.

Early life

Mann attended Diocesan Boys' School, an 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 and received a degree in philosophy at UCLA, even though acting remained important to him. After college, Byron attended USC Law School, but took a sabbatical after the first year. Back in Hong Kong, he received an acting role in the NBC Movie TV movie Last Flight Out. He returned to Los Angeles, California, graduated from USC Law, passed the California bar, and pursued acting full-time.

Mann was recently engaged to Zhou LingAn (Betty Zhou), a minor actress on Chinese and Singaporean television, and a lounge singer in Shanghai and Singapore. She appeared in The Man with the Iron Fists in an ancillary role as a seductress, with Mann in a supporting role. Most recently Zhou has worked on a web only NBA fandom show.

Career

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 Ryu in Street Fighter (alongside Jean-Claude Van Damme and Raúl Juliá) and Koh in the manga-based movie Crying Freeman. In 2012, Mann starred with Russell Crowe and Lucy Liu in The Man with the Iron Fists, directed by RZA, and presented by Quentin Tarantino.

Mann is interested in sports, especially tennis and golf. He was at one point a top-ranked tennis player in Hong Kong. He is also a Wushu practitioner, displaying his skills in a number of movies including Invincible and Street Fighter.

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
• The Unit (2009) — Stanley Wu
• Motherland (2009) — Michael Wong
• A Dangerous Man (2009) — The Colonel
• 39 (2009) — Kenny
• Vauxhall Crossed (2010) — Michael Wong
• Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures (2010) — Chen
• Jasmine (2010) — The Man
• Befriend and Betray (2010) — PC Lau
• Sleeping Dogs (2012) — Raymond Mak / Pockmark Cheuk
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 (2012) — General Tian-Zhao
• The Man with the Iron Fists (2012) — Silver Lion
• Cold War (2012) — Chan Bun
• Arrow (2012-2013) — Yao-Fei
• A Stranger In Paradise (film) (2013) — Lek

External links

• Byron Mann at the Internet Movie Database