Kevin Lee (actor)
Kevin Lee (born 19 February 1981) is an English actor, who has played roles in Chinese films directed by Jackie Chan, Zhang Yimou, and Wu Jing. Lee typically plays western villains and has played leading roles in recent films directed by Wu. Early life 
Kevin Lee was born in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. As a child, he loved watching Chinese martial arts films, including films starring Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee and Jet Li. He gained a degree in IT, but decided to study Chinese martial arts in Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang province, China, before moving back to the UK. After working as a salesman and financial consultant in the UK, he trained as an actor before moving back to China in 2010. Film career 
Lee says that he met director Wu Jing while renewing his work visa at the Public Security Bureau in the Chinese capital of Beijing. There, he starred in Wu Jing's Wolf Warrior (2015), the first in the Chinese patriotic Wolf Warrior franchise, and featured in the Stanley Tong film Kung Fu Yoga (2016), starring Jackie Chan, and the Zhang Chong film Super Me (2019). He is best known for playing the American colonel Allan Maclean in The Battle at Lake Changjin (2021). He was cast in the Zhang Yimou movie Sniper (2022). The characters Lee plays are often the lead  villains, though from time to time he will play the occasional good guy. Lee has become a staple of Chinese films to play the main villain 

He does not get to play the lead role in Chinese cinema, but has said the same goes the West, telling the BBC: "If you look at Hollywood movies, how many Chinese or Asian actors do you see play the leading man? The Chinese or Russians will always play the bad guy." . References

External links 

 
 Kevin Lee at Film Affinity

1981 births
English actors
Living people
Male actors from Cambridgeshire
People from Huntingdon
English emigrants to China