Phillip Rhee
Biography
Phillip Rhee is a South Korean American actor, martial artist and filmmaker who grew up in San Francisco. He is known for playing Tommy Lee across the Best of the Best series. Rhee represented the United States taekwondo team against South Korea at the 1980 Asia Games championships, an experience that shaped the screenplay he wrote for Best of the Best (1989). That film led to three sequels in which he returned as Tommy Lee: Best of the Best 2 (1993), Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back (1995) and Best of the Best 4: Without Warning (1998). He has created, produced and starred in a number of films, and he also works as a director. He is trained in taekwondo and hapkido and has also studied wing chun and boxing.
66years old
Turns 67 on September 7in 324 days
- Born San Francisco
- Star sign: VirgoThe sign runs August 23 to September 22
Movie Career
- Films
- 7
- Career span
- 43 years1976 to 2019
Genres
- Action86%, 6 films
- Drama43%, 3 films
- Crime29%, 2 films
- Adventure14%, 1 film
- Documentary14%, 1 film
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Getting ready for a role
Rhee represented the United States Taekwondo Team at the 1980 Asia Games championships against South Korea, and that experience formed the basis of his screenplay for Best of the Best.
Own stunts
Rhee holds a sixth-degree black belt in taekwondo and a third-degree black belt in hapkido, and has also trained in wing chun and boxing.
Phillip Rhee movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Robert Radler directed two of these films. Two actors appear in three of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Eric Roberts's page
Simon Rhee's page
Chris Penn's page
Edan Gross's page
J.J. Perry's page
Ken Nagayama2 films together, 1989 to 1993
Ken Nagayama's page
Robert RadlerDirector, 2 films, 1989 to 1993
All films by Robert Radler
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.