Steven Yeun Imdb Bio Wiki Age Wife Family Movies and Net Worth
Steven Yeun is an American actor and producer. He initially rose to prominence after playing the role of Glenn Rhee in the tv series titled The Walking Dead from 2010 until 2016. Also, Steven played Ben in the film titled Burning in 2018 which earned him critical acclaim and also the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor among other several accolades.
Steven has been nominated for two Saturn Awards and starred in and executive produced Minari in 2020 which earned him critical acclaim and also a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He became the first Asian American actor to receive this honor and the first Asian-American actor to be nominated by a Male Actor in a Leading Role at the Screen Actors Guild for Outstanding Performance.
He was born on December 21, 1983, in Seoul, South Korea. Steven is38 years old.
He is a man of above-average stature. Steven stands at a height of5 ft 9 in ( Approx 1.75m).
he was born to his parentsJeYeunandJun Yeunon December 21, 1983, in Seoul, South Korea. Steven’s dad served as an architect in South Korea prior to moving his family to Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada in 1988. From Canada, the family moved to the U.S. and settled in Taylor, Michigan before relocating to Troy, Michigan. Steven has a younger brother calledBrian. Je and Jun Yeun raised Steven in the Christian faith and owned beauty-supply stores in Detroit.
He is a married man who has been spending a blissful married life with her photographer wife calledJoana Pak. The couple walked down the aisle on December 3, 2016. Steven and Joan are proud parents to their two beautiful children. Currently, he and his family reside in Los Angeles. Steven is an investor in his brother’s Korean-Mediterranean fusion restaurant in the Koreatown area of Los Angeles.
Also, he is a longtime fan of both the Detroit Pistons and Detroit Red Wings. As far as politics are concerned, steven endorsed Andrew Yang for president in the 2020 U.S. election
He earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology with a concentration in neuroscience in 2005 from Kalamazoo College. While there, Steven befriended comedian Jordan Klepper’s sister and she took him to see Klepper’s improv show. Klepper inspired him to take his first acting class and later went with Klepper to Chicago, where they both joined The Second City.
Although his parents wanted Steven to enroll in law school or medical school, he revealed to them that he planned to pursue an improv career in Chicago instead. Although they were unhappy with the decision, but supported him and gave him two years to pursue acting. Steve moved to Chicago in 2005 with his brother living in the city’s Lincoln Square.
After his graduation, he joined a sketch comedy ensemble of Asian-American performers called Stir Friday Night. Danny Pudi from Community was an alumnus of the group. Steven joined The Second City in Chicago prior to moving to Los Angeles in October 2009.
His biggest role to date is the starring role on an AMC tv horror drama titled The Walking Dead as Glenn Rhee. The series, based on the comic book series of the same name started in 2010. It involves a group of characters who fight to survive in a violent world full of flesh-eating zombies. The drama became the highest-rated series in cable tv history. Seasons three to six of the series garnered the most 18 to 49-year-old viewers of any cable or broadcast tv series.
On December 21, 2018, the first season of 3Below was released on Netflix while the second and final season was released on July 12, 2019. In late 2018, Steven was given the main role in an episode of Jordan Peele’s revival of The Twilight Zone. Currently, he voices Mark Grayson in the animated superhero series called Invincible, adapting Robert Kirkman’s comic book series released on Amazon Prime in March 2021.
In 2020, Steven starred in and also served as an executive producer for Lee Isaac Chung’s A24 immigrant drama titled Minari. It also included Scott Haze, Will Patton, Noel Kate Cho, Alan Kim, Han Ye-ri, Youn Yuh-Jung among the cast. The film was about a Korean immigrant family who became farmers in Arkansas and Steve included his own immigrant experience in his acting.
It had its world premiere in January 2020 and won two top awards at the Sundance Film Festival. Steven won an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination for Minari. From there, he co-starred in Stephen Karam’s award-winning one-act play adaptation titled The Humans alongside Amy Schumer, Richard Jenkins, and Jayne Houdyshell.
Currently, Steven does voice acting in animated tv series and films. e.g Speckle in Tuca & Bertie, Avatar Wan in the second season of The Legend of Korra, Little Cato in Final Space, Nathan Park/Wingspan in Stretch Armstrong, and the Flex Fighters, Keith in Voltron: Legendary Defender, and Steve Palchuk in Trollhunters and 3Below. It was revealed that Steven’s role as Steve Palchuk would continue into the third series of the Tales of Arcadia trilogy titled Wizards.
In late 2018, Steven played Ben in the South Korean mystery drama film titled Burning, directed by Lee Chang-dong which was first unveiled at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, and his performance in the film was acclaimed. At the 2018 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, Steven won Best Supporting Actor. He as well won the Toronto Film Critics Association Awards, Florida Film Critics Circle Awards, as well as 2018 National Society of Film Critics Awards.
He co-starred in Boots Riley’s dark comedy titled Sorry to Bother You alongside Tessa Thompson, Armie Hammer, and Lakeith Stanfield and which was released in theaters on July 6, 2018. In January 2018, the film had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. It won The 2019 National Board of Review’s Top Ten Independent Films award, Best Screenplay, and Best First Feature at the 2019 Independent Spirit Awards.
In March 2016, he appeared in Joe Lynch’s action horror film titled Mayhem released in theaters on November 10, 2017. In April 2016, Steven appeared in Bong Joon-ho’s action-adventure film titled Okja which competed for the Palme d’Or at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival in the main competition section. The film was released on Netflix on June 28, 2017. Also, he provided the voice of Bo in 2017’s The Star.
He appeared in the films titled I Origins in 2014, Okja and Mayhem in 2017, as well as Sorry to Bother You in 2018. He voiced main characters in tv series such as Voltron: Legendary Defender from 2016 to 2018, Tales of Arcadia from 2016 to 2021, Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters from 2017 until 2018, Final Space from 2018 until 2021, Tuca & Bertie from 2019 as well as Invincible since 2021.
– 2009 The Kari Files
– 2010 Carpe Millennium
– 2014 I Origins
– 2015 Like a French Film
– 2017 Okja
– 2018 Sorry to Bother You
– 2020 Minari
– 2021 Space Jam: A New Legacy
– 2021 Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
– 2022 Nope
– 2021 The Human
Acting serves as his primary source of income and wealth. Steven has an estimated net worth of$1,247,925.
Steven is an American actor and producer. He initially rose to prominence after plating the role of Glenn Rhee in the tv series titled The Walking Dead from 2010 until 2016.
Steven is a 38-year-old American actor who was born on December 21, 1983, in Seoul, South Korea.
He married a professional photographer called JoanaPak. The couple walked down the aisle on December 3, 2016. Steven and Joan are proud parents to their two beautiful children. Currently, he and his family reside in Los Angeles.
