Ron Yuan

Ronald Yuan is an American actor, martial artist, director, and stunt choreographer. He is best known for his roles on Sons of Anarchy, Prison Break, Golden Boy, and CSI: NY. He has acted in numerous films, including an ensemble lead as Sgt. Qiang in Disney's live-action adaptation Mulan. He also voiced Sgt. Fideltin Rusk in the video game series Star Wars: The Old Republic, and Scorpion in Mortal Kombat 11.

Early life Yuan was born in New York City, New York, the son of Theresa and Joseph Yuan, and the brother of actor Roger Yuan.

Career

Acting

Film Yuan appeared in Roland Emmerich's Independence Day sequel, Independence Day: Resurgence, playing Yeong, the main weapons engineer. Before that, Yuan appeared in the film The Accountant (directed by Gavin O'Connor), with Ben Affleck, J. K. Simmons and Anna Kendrick, playing a reluctant Silat master. Yuan had a cameo in Martin Scorsese's Revenge of the Green Dragons, directed by Andrew Lau (Infernal Affairs) and Andrew Loo, playing the feared leader of the notorious BTK. Yuan also joined Francesca Eastwood and Annie Q. in Cardinal X, produced by Richard Bosner (Fruitvale Station) and Cassian Elwes in a semi-autobiographical film from first time director Angie Wang based on a college freshman in the 1980s who becomes an expert manufacturer and dealer of ecstasy.

Yuan also had memorable turns on hit films The Art of War, Fast & Furious, Cradle 2 the Grave, Blood and Bone, and Red Dawn.

TV Yuan was a series regular on the Netflix show, the Weinstein Company's Marco Polo created by John Fusco. Yuan plays Prince Nayan, a fiery eyed descendant of Genghis Khan. Nayan is a converted Christian that rules all of Manchuria and whose closely watched actions will affect Kublai's control of Asia.

Yuan has also appeared on Jon Bokenkamp's hit show The Blacklist as mysterious Blacklister Quon Zhang. Yuan was also seen in the final season of Sons of Anarchy as the intense and unpredictable Ryu Tom. Yuan played hard-nosed Lt. Peter Kang in the short lived CBS series Golden Boy from Nicholas Wootton and Greg Berlanti. Yuan also had recent cameo special guest appearances on the TV shows Castle and Justified. Yuan also played the iconic Japanese character Scorpion for Warner Bros' secret Mortal Kombat X "Generations".

In the past, Yuan was cast in a leading role on HBO pilot All Signs of Death opposite Ben Whishaw, directed by Alan Ball (True Blood). Yuan recently had character arcs on FOX's Touch opposite Kiefer Sutherland created by Tim Kring (Heroes), NBC's Awake opposite Jason Isaacs and FOX pilot "Exit Strategy" with Ethan Hawke directed by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day).

Yuan also had memorable turns on other hit series Prison Break, CSI: NY, 24, Burn Notice, NCIS: Los Angeles, Pushing Daisies, and Entourage.

Video game voicework Yuan has also voiced characters in major video or computer games such as Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, Halo, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Resident Evil, World of Warcraft, Medal of Honor, Army of Two, Guild Wars 2, Deus Ex, Uncharted, Red Alert 3, Mortal Kombat 11, Fallout: New Vegas and many more.

Action directing and choreography Yuan designed the fight sequences as well as going behind camera as Action Director for Steve Chasman/ Jason Statham's "Wild Card" scripted by William Goldman and directed by Simon West. Yuan just finished designing and directing the action on the popular Taiwanese/ Chinese/ International action franchise "PiZi Ying Xiong 2"(Black&White 2) shot entirely in Taiwan.

Directing and writing He has directed and written several short films so far, including Lollipops (2009), Three Bullets (2009) (starring Michael Jai White) and Tea and Remembrance (2009), starring himself and Marie Matiko. He is currently working on a feature project entitled "Unspoken" starring Russell Wong, Brian Tee, Will Yun Lee, and Ian Anthony Dale.

Yuan later directed Step Up: Year of the Dance, a Chinese dance film of the Step Up franchise.

Filmography

Film YearFilmRoleNotes 1991 Ring of Fire Li 1992 Street Crimes Jimmy Credited as Ron Winston Yuan 1993 Ring of Fire II: Blood and Steel Han Lo Video To Be the Best Han Lo 1994 Bloodfist V: Human Target Sam Vanishing Son III Pink Knight #1 TV movie Vanishing Son IV Pink Knight #2 Double Dragon Ninja Wrath Deadly Target "Lucky" 1995 The Adventurers Paul Jade Technician 1996 White Tiger Severin Credited as Ron Winston Yuan Night Hunter Hashimoto Tiger Heart Johnny 1997 Drive "Razor Scarred" Fakin' Da Funk Chinese Waiter 1999 Godzilla 2000 KatagiriVoice only 2000 Deep Core Chin Li The Art of War Ming 2001 Golden Dreams The Chinese Man Short film Shaolin Soccer The Referee Voice only Three Blind Mice Vietnamese Man #3 TV movie Longshot Friend #4 2002 Kung Pow! Enter the Fist Gang Fighter #2 2003 Cradle 2 the Grave Laser Tech Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision Ling Video Ella Enchanted Red Guard Uncredited 2005 Color Blind Drug Dealer Forbidden Warrior Lank 2006 Fifty Pills The Seoul Man Undoing Chang 2007 Baby Tommy Adventures of Johnny Tao Lee Chang 2008 American Crude The Guard Mask of the Ninja Kunio TV movie 6th and Santa Fe Actor Short film 2009 Fast & Furious David Park From Mexico with Love Joe "Scar" Cameo Tea and Remembrance The Lone Man Blood and Bone Teddy "Teddy D" 2010 The Godmother Danny Wu Short film Cinder The New Adventures of Johnny Karate and Golden Delicious The Narrator All Signs of Death Po Sin 2011 Shanghai Hotel Sharkman 2012 The Girl from the Naked Eye Simon Mission Chinese Master Gangster Short film Red Dawn The Clerk Uncredited 2013 Olympus Has Fallen Undercover Commando 2014 Mall Cop Revenge of the Green Dragons Born to Kill Dai Lo 2015 Underdog Kids Marc Zuko Cardinal X Michael 2016 Black Salt Mamori Shiga Black Thread Masanori Ozeki Birth of the Dragon Tony Yu The Accountant Pencak Silat Master Independence Day: Resurgence Yeong 2020 Mulan Sergeant Qiang The Paper Tigers Hing 2022 Catwoman: Hunted Dr. TzinVoice role, direct-to-video Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind Sub-Zero Voice role, direct-to-video The Wind & the Reckoning Lee 2023 The Monkey King Babbo Voice role

Television YearTitleRoleNote 1995 Vanishing Son Crazy Boy 6 Episode: "Single Flame" (uncredited) 1997 The Pretender Ken Watanabe Episode: "Jaroldo!"; credited as Ron Winston Yuan Walker, Texas Ranger Jiang Chu Episode: "Heart of the Dragon"; credited as Ron Winston Yuan Pensacola: Wings of Gold Phan Van Tung Episode: "Past Sins"; credited as Ron Winston Yuan 1998 Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman Mr. Zou Episode: "Life in the Balance" 1998-1999 Nash Bridges Darrell Chang, Drug Dealer / Elliott Wong / Henchman #1 Episodes: "Crosstalk Drug Dealer", "Goodbye Kiss", "Special Delivery" 1998-2001 V.I.P. The Actor / Hirata The Black / "Lucky" / Kazuo Episodes: "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Val" (uncredited), "Magnificent Val", "Mao Better Blues" (uncredited), "Vallery of the Dolls" 1999 Martial Law "Dreads" Episode: "How Sammo Got His Groove Back" (uncredited) L.A. Heat Marco Episode: "Little Saigon" 2000 JAG Lee Kun-Tae Episode: "The Bridge at Kang So Ri" Son of the Beach Johnny Tree Episode: "With Sex You Get Eggroll" The Fearing Mind Frank Wong Episode: "The Fortunate One" 2002 Family Law Officer Fox Episode: "Children of a Lesser Dad" Alias Haz Mat Guy Episode: "The Enemy Walks In" Robbery Homicide Division Vinh Episode: "Life is Dust" 2003 The Agency Reza Ghani / Gunart Everwood Episode: "Debbie Does Djkarta" Black Sash Jing Li / Billy Episodes: "The Prodigal Son", "Pilot" 2004 Boston Legal Zhang Wu Episode: "Questionable characters" 2005 Monk Tommy Winn Episode: "Mr. Monk Gets Cabin Fever" (uncredited) Entourage Chaing Chung Episode: "Chinatown" CSI: NY Dr. Evan Zao Episodes: "Corporate Warriors", "Zoo york", "Grand Murder at Central Station", "Summer in the City" Sleeper Cell "Cornrow" Episode: "Family" (uncredited) 2007 24 Zhou's Team Member #1 Episodes: "Day 6: 2:00 a.m. - 3:00 a.m.", "Day 6 3:00 a.m. - 4:00 a.m." Cold Case Shinji Nakamura Episode: "Family 8108" 2008 Pushing Daises "Shrimp Boy" Episode: "Dim Some Lose Some" Prison Break Feng Huan Episodes: "Deal or No Deal", "Selfless", "Quiet Riot", "The Price", "Safe and Sound", "Eagles and Angels" 2010 Burn Notice Lee Episode: "Fast Friends" NCIS: Los Angeles Yosh Episode: "Honor" Touch Wember Hsu Episode: "Entanglement" Awake Solomon Kang Episode: "Game Day" 2012 Tron: Uprising Episode: "Scars, Part 1" 2013 Golden Boy Lieutenant Peter Kang Episodes: "Next Question", "Beast of Burden", "Longshot", "Sacrifice", "Atonement", "Scapegoat", "McKenzie on Fire", "Just Say No", "Vicious Cycle" "Role Models", "Young Guns" "The Price of Revenge", "Pilot" 2014 Justified Simon Lee Episode: "A Murder of Crowes" Castle Michio Saito Episode: "The Way of the Ninja" Hawaii Five-0 Al Mokuau Episode: "Ke Kono Mamao Aku" 2015 Mortal Kombat X: Generations Hanzo Hasashi / Scorpion Episode: "The Cursed Words" We Are Fathers Qing Zhuo Episodes: "End of Jin", "Enter the Tiger Den" 2016 Marco Polo Prince Nayan Episodes 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 10 (season 2) 2018-2019 Siren Agent Aldon Decker 2021 Pacific Rim: The Black Shiro Ito 2022 Blood & Treasure Batu / The Great Khan Recurring role Ark: The Animated Series Han Li 2024 The Brothers Sun Frank Ma Episodes 6, 7, 8 2025 Grosse Pointe Garden Society Keith Season 1

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