Brian Tee

Acting · Born 1977-03-15 · Okinawa, Japan

Biography

Brian Tee (born Jae-Beom Takata) is a Japanese-born American actor. At the age of two, he and his family moved from Japan to Hacienda Heights, CA. He is most known for his starring role as Dr. Ethan Choi on NBC's Chicago Med and for his role as D.K. Takashi in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. In James Mangold's The Wolverine (2013), starring Hugh Jackman, Tee played Noburo Mori, a sadistic minister of justice arranged to marry the daughter of the Yakuza Boss. He played Shredder in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, the 2016 sequel to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Known for

• Enough (2026)
• A House of Dynamite (2025)
• The Beautiful Ones (2017)
• Roswell FM (2017)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)
• Jurassic World (2015)
• No Tears for the Dead (2014)
• One Christmas Eve (2014)
• The Gabby Douglas Story (2014)
• The Wolverine (2013)
• Wedding Palace (2013)
• Shake It Up: Made in Japan (2012)
• The Historian Paradox (2011)
• Chain Letter (2010)
• Deadland (2009)
• Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee (2007)
• The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
• All In (2006)
• Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)
• Tiger Cruise (2004)
• Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation (2004)
• We Were Soldiers (2002)
• Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
• What Planet Are You From? (2000)