MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actor , Executive Producer , Producer
Birth name Yeun Sang-yeop
Nationalities American, South Korean
Birth December 21, 1983 (Seoul – South Korea)

BIOGRAPHY
Born in Seoul, Steven Yeun immigrated with his family to Canada and then to the United States where he quickly took theater lessons. The young actor made his film debut in My Name is Jerry in 2009 and then appeared in short films and series, including The Big Bang Theory and Los Angeles Police Judicial . It didn’t take him very long to become known to the general public: in 2010, he landed the role of the courageous, faithful and intelligent Glenn Rhee in The Walking Dead . This phenomenally successful zombie series occupied most of his schedule for six years. However, we can come across him as a scientist in the SF romance I Origins and in the voice casting of some animated series ( American Dad!, The Legend of Korra ). In 2016, he left the show after the shocking first episode of season 7.

Freed from his commitments, he devoted himself to cinema and initially remained in the horror register with Mayhem – Légitime Vengeance (2017). While continuing to dub ( Voltron, the legendary defender , Trollhunters ), he has the opportunity to reconnect with his origins by starring in Korean productions. After the sketch film Like a French Film , he collaborated with one of his most renowned compatriots, director Bong Joon-Ho , in the ecological fable Okja selected at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. Steven Yeun returns to the Croisette following year with Burning , Lee Chang-Dong ‘s incandescent thriller . He plays a mysterious and disturbing young man and plays a major role in Korean for the first time in his career.

In 2021, the Seoul native reunited with the co-creator of The Walking Dead, Robert Kirkman , for the animated series Invincible in which he voiced the main character (a discipline in which he is particularly active, as evidenced by his vocal performances for the series animated films Stretch Armstrong , The Trio from Elsewhere: Tales of Arcadia , Mages and Sorcerers: Tales of Arcadia , Final Space and Tuca & Bertie ). But this year is especially marked by his first nomination for the Oscar for best actor for Minari by Lee Isaac Chung , a drama in which an American family of South Korean origin settles in Arkansas. We then see him play a secondary character in the disturbing Nope by Jordan Peel e , to whom we owe the cult horror thriller Get Out .

Emilie Schneider