Ron Yuan

Ron Yuan
Born	Ronald Yuan New York City, U.S.
Occupations	Actor director martial artist stunt choreographer
Years active	1991–present

Ron Yuan
Chinese	袁文忠
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Yuán Wénzhōng

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.^{[citation needed]}

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 been the voice behind major video or computer games such as Call of Duty-Black Ops 2, Halo, Star War's Old Republic, Resident Evil, World of Warcraft, Medal of Honor, Army of Two, Guild Wars 2, Deus Ex, Drake's Uncharted, Red Alert 3 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

Year	Film	Role	Notes
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	Katagiri	voice only
2000	Deep Core	Chin Li
	The Art of War	Ming
2001	Golden Dreams	The Chinese Man	Short film
	Shaolin Soccer	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	Chandani Chowk To China	Inspector Chiang	Bollywood
	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 D
2010	The Godmother	Danny Wu	short film
	Cinder
	The New Adventures of Johnny Karate and Golden Delicious	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	Doctor Tzin	Voice role, Direct-to-video
	Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind	Sub-Zero	Voice role, Direct-to-video[1]
2023	The Monkey King	Babbo	Voice role

Television

Year	Title	Role	Note
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	[2]
2024	The Brothers Sun	Frank Ma	Episodes 6, 7, 8

Video games

Year	Video Game	Role	Note
2004	Wrath Unleashed	Epothos	[3]
	The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher bay	Matthies / Monster / Wpminer
	GoldenEye: Rogue Agent	Additional voices
2005	S.W.A.T. 4	Male Suspect #1 / Lian Niu / Simon Gowan	[3]
	50 Cent: Bulletproof	Triad
2006	SWAT 4: The Stetchkov Syndicate	Male Suspect 1 / Andrew Norman
	Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers	Sergeant Williams
2007	Def Jam: Icon	Narrator
	Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars	Dr. Takeda
	Spider-Man 3	Dragon Tail Thug / Additional voices
	Guild Wars: Eye of the North	Captain
	Timeshift	Police 3 Commander
2008	Speed Racer	Kakoii Teppodama	[3]
	Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3	Crown Prince Tatsu
2009	Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising	Crown Prince Tatsu
	Prototype	Commander
	Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings	Tong Thug	[3]
	Wet	Ratboy / Dr. Afro
2010	Army of Two: The 40th Day	Wu
	Socom U.S. Navy Seals: Fireteam Bravo 3	Additional voices
	Alpha Protocol	Omen Deng / Triads	[3]
	Medal of Honor	Bagram N.C.O. / SPC. Song
	Fallout: New Vegas	Ignacio / Tommy Torini / Paladain Ramos / Additional voices
2011	Spider-Man: Edge of Time	Additional voices
	Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception	Multiplayer Characters	[3]
	Saints Row: The Third	Pedestrian / Additional Voices
	Star Wars: The Old Republic	Sergeant Rusk / Additional voices	[3]
2012	Sleeping Dogs	Mr. Chow / Ponytail / Mr. Tong / Additional voices
	Guild Wars 2	PC Charr Male
	Resident Evil 6	BSAA	[3]
	Nightmare in North Point	Dogeyes
	Halo 4	Additional voices
	Call of Duty: Black Ops II	Chinese Commando
2013	Star Wars: The Old Republic - Rise of the Hutt Cartel	Sergeant Rusk
	Saints Row IV	The Voices of Virtual Steepport
	Battlefield 4	Various voices
2014	Elder Scrolls Online
	World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor
	Star Wars: The Old Republic - Shadow of Revan	Sergeant Rusk
2015	Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns	PC Charr Male
	Call of Duty: Black Ops III	Additional voices
	Star Wars: The Old Republic - Knights of the Fallen Empire	Fideltin Rusk
2016	Star Wars: The Old Republic - Knights of the Eternal Throne	Additional voices
2019	Mortal Kombat 11	Scorpion	[4]
2020	Yakuza: Like a Dragon	Taiga Saejima	[5]
2023	Mortal Kombat: Onslaught	Scorpion	[6]
	Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name	Taiga Saejima	[3]
2024	Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth

References

1. "Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind Voice Cast and Plot Details Revealed". 3 August 2022.
2. Del Rosario, Alexandra (December 11, 2020). "'Ark: The Animated Series': Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh & Elliot Page Among Voice Cast Members In New Video Game-Inspired Show".
3. "Ron Yuan (visual voices guide)". Behind the Voice Actors. Retrieved February 6, 2020. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
4. Yuan, Ron [@RonYuan] (January 21, 2019). "@JohnnyAlicea :-)" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
5. Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio. Yakuza: Like a Dragon. Sega. Scene: Ending credits, 0:34.
6. Cianciolo, Dominic [@domcianciolo] (October 17, 2023). "#MkOnslaught's cine voices so far! Raiden @WillingBlam Liu & Fuj @mattyangking Kung Lao @ThatSunil Jax @WillCMe Johnny @AndrewSBowen Sonya Sheeva @vanmarshall Scorp @RonYuan Shinnok @TroyBakerVA Kitana @KariWahlgren Cetrion @MaryEMcGlynn Baraka @blumspew Kabal J. Cahill" (Tweet). Retrieved October 20, 2023 – via Twitter.

External links

• Ron Yuan's official website Archived 2020-11-24 at the Wayback Machine
• Ron Yuan at IMDb