Brandon Lee

Brandon Lee was an American actor and martial artist who trained in martial arts from childhood and studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and Emerson College. He began with leading parts in Legacy of Rage (1986), a Hong Kong action film, earning a Hong Kong Film Award nomination for Best New Performer, and in the straight-to-video Laser Mission (1989). He also appeared in the television movie Kung Fu: The Movie and the unsold pilot Kung Fu: The Next Generation. His American feature debut came in Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991), a buddy cop film, opposite Dolph Lundgren, which later became a cult film. He then starred in Rapid Fire (1992), where critics praised his onscreen presence. He took the part of Eric Draven in The Crow (1994), a supernatural superhero film that brought him posthumous praise and became a critical and commercial success. Lee died in 1993.