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Sung Kang

Highest Rated: 93% Raya and the Last Dragon (2021)

Lowest Rated: 14% War (2007)

Birthday: Apr 8, 1972

Birthplace: Gainesville, Georgia, USA

Korean-American actor Sung Kang became widely known as Han Lue, a member of the "Fast & Furious" crew in four films in the popular action series, which led to work in other action features like "Live Free or Die Hard" (2007) and roles in television series like "Power" (Starz, 2014- ). Born Kang Sung-Ho in Gainesville, Georgia on April 8, 1972, he was the son of South Korean immigrant parents who relocated throughout his childhood due to their obligations to the United States military. They eventually settled in California, where he attended the University of California, Riverside with the intention of earning a degree in law. To his parents' dismay, Kang decided to become an actor, and headed to Los Angeles, where he landed minor roles on series like "Martial Law" (CBS, 1998-2000) and in features like "Pearl Harbor" (2000). His breakthrough role came in 2002 as a co-star and co-producer of "Better Luck Tomorrow" (2002), an independently financed crime picture with a predominately Asian cast that also marked the directorial debut of Justin Lin, who would later cast Kang as a key supporting figure in the "Fast and Furious" franchise. Kang made his first appearance in the third title in the series, "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" (2006) playing the jittery, speed-loving Han Lue, who dies in the film's conclusion. When the franchise reunited its original cast - including Vin Diesel and Paul Walker - for "Fast & Furious" (2009), the series' timeline was reset to disregard the events in "Tokyo Drift," thus reviving Han to become a key member of the on-screen team's vehicular mayhem until "Fast & Furious 6" (2013), where he is seen returning to Japan and facing the demise that capped "Tokyo Drift." The international success of the "Fast and Furious" films also gave Kang's career profile a boost, and he enjoyed supporting roles in films like "Live Free or Die Hard" and "Ninja Assassin" (2009), as well as a rare venture into comedy as the president of Korea in the "Tae Do" sketches for "MADtv" (Fox, 1995-2009, The CW, 2016). Kang also starred in the short-lived Fox crime series "Gang Related" (2014), playing an FBI agent assisting a gang task force with the Los Angeles Police Department. He returned to television in 2017 in a supporting role on "Power" as an assistant U.S. attorney pursuing the series' drug-dealing antihero, Ghost (played by Omari Hardwick).

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Highest rated movies

93% 97% Raya and the Last Dragon Watchlist
88% 64% The Motel
Watchlist
85% 62% Code 8 Watchlist
82% 86% Live Free or Die Hard
Watchlist
82% 82% Furious 7 Watchlist
81% 79% Better Luck Tomorrow
Watchlist
78% 83% Fast Five Watchlist 76% 41% We Can Be Heroes Watchlist 73% 75% Shaky Shivers Watchlist 71% 84% Fast & Furious 6 Watchlist

Filmography

Movies

Credit
52% 66% Weekend in Taipei Unknown (Character) - 2024
56% 84% Fast X Han (Character) $573.9M 2023
73% 75% Shaky Shivers Director - 2022
71% 50% Snakehead Rambo (Character) - 2021
59% 82% F9 The Fast Saga Han (Character) $173.0M 2021
93% 97% Raya and the Last Dragon Dang Hai (Character) $54.7M 2021
76% 41% We Can Be Heroes Kung-Fu Man (Character) - 2020
85% 62% Code 8 Agent Park (Character) - 2019
No Score Yet 60% Party Boat Greg (Character) - 2017
53% 52% The Free World Detective Shin (Character) - 2016
55% 99% Pali Road Mitch Kayne (Character) - 2015
82% 82% Furious 7 Han (Character) $350.8M 2015
63% 65% Ana Maria in Novela Land Korean Soap Actor (Character) - 2015
No Score Yet 21% Hollywood Adventures Manny (Character) - 2015
No Score Yet 24% Eden Connie (Character) - 2014
71% 84% Fast & Furious 6 Han (Character) $238.7M 2013
No Score Yet 83% Sunset Stories JP (Character) - 2012
45% 39% Bullet to the Head Taylor Kwon (Character) $9.5M 2012
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Come Up Unknown (Character) - 2012
No Score Yet 23% Knots Kai (Character) - 2011
78% 83% Fast Five Han Lue (Character) $209.8M 2011
26% 54% Ninja Assassin Hollywood (Character) $38.1M 2009
No Score Yet 54% Los Bandoleros Han (Character) - 2009
34% 47% Finishing the Game Cole Kim (Character) $52.9K 2007
14% 51% War Goi (Character) $22.5M 2007
82% 86% Live Free or Die Hard Raj (Character) $134.5M 2007
31% 23% Undoing Samuel (Character),
Producer
$45.0K 2006
38% 69% The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift Han (Character) $62.5M 2006
88% 64% The Motel Sam Kim (Character) $50.1K 2005
No Score Yet 9% Forbidden Warrior Doran (Character) - 2004
81% 79% Better Luck Tomorrow Han (Character),
Associate Producer
$3.8M 2002

TV

Credit
No Score Yet 18% Hot Wheels: Ultimate Challenge Judge 2023
82% 61% Obi-Wan Kenobi Fifth Brother (Character) 2022
53% 48% Lisey's Story Dan Beckman (Character) 2021
81% 81% Power John Mak (Character) 2017-2020
78% 79% Whiskey Cavalier Daniel Lou (Guest Star) 2019
No Score Yet 69% Hawaii Five-0 Unknown (Guest Star) 2016
No Score Yet 64% Family Guy Soap Opera Actor (Guest Voice) 2016
41% 90% Gang Related Tae Kim (Character) 2014
No Score Yet 84% Robot Chicken Unknown (Guest Voice) 2014
6% No Score Yet Mental Unknown (Guest Star) 2009
89% 88% Monk Mr. Huang (Guest Star) 2005 2009
No Score Yet 80% CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Unknown (Guest Star) 2008
5% No Score Yet Knight Rider Unknown (Guest Star) 2008
No Score Yet 65% CSI: Miami Unknown (Guest Star) 2006
23% No Score Yet Standoff Unknown (Guest Star) 2006
No Score Yet 75% Without a Trace Unknown (Guest Star) 2004
No Score Yet 95% Cold Case Unknown (Guest Star) 2004
33% No Score Yet Threat Matrix Unknown (Guest Star) 2004
90% 95% The Shield Malcolm Rama (Guest Star) 2003
No Score Yet No Score Yet Girlfriends Unknown (Guest Star) 2002
No Score Yet No Score Yet Martial Law Unknown (Guest Star) 2000