Steven Yeun

Steven Yeun is a Korean-American actor born in Seoul, South Korea on December 21, 1983. He is best known for his role as Glenn Rhee in the television show The Walking Dead. While in college he became interested in acting and improv and became part of his college’s improv group. In 2005 he moved to Chicago to pursue a career in improv and joined the sketch comedy group Stir Friday Night and The Second City. Yeun moved to Los Angeles in 2009 and made his debut in film that same year in the movie My Name Is Jerry. He has since had roles in the films I Origins, Like a French Film, Okja, Mayhem, The Star, Sorry to Bother You, and Burning. In 2010 he made his debut on television in the show The Big Bang Theory and continued landing roles in the shows The Walking Dead, Law & Order: LA, Warehouse 13, Harder Than it Looks, Drunk History, Weird City, The Twilight Zone, I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, Voltron: Legendary Defender, Final Space and more. He has also voiced characters in the video games Crysis, Crysis Warhead, and DreamWorks Voltron VR Chronicles. Throughout his career he has been nominated for a number of awards and has won a Saturn Award, a Satellite Award, a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award and others.