Brian Tee
Acting
Born March 15, 1977, Okinawa, Japan
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.
Filmography
- 2026Enough — Brian Takakura, Director
- Get Jiro — Jiro (voice)
- 2025A House of Dynamite — SAIC Ken Cho
- Expats — Clarke
- Reacher — Xavier Quinn
- 2017Roswell FM — Dwayne Archimedes
- 2017The Beautiful Ones — Casper
- Lucifer — Ben Rogers
- 2016Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows — Shredder
- Chicago Med — Dr. Ethan Choi, Director
- 2015Jurassic World — Hamada
- Zoo — Philip Weber
- Chicago P.D. — Jesse Kong, Ethan Choi
- Legends — Paul Chang
- 2014No Tears for the Dead — Charles
- 2014One Christmas Eve — Dr. Chen
- 2014The Gabby Douglas Story — Liang Chow
- Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. — Toshiro Mori
- 2013The Wolverine — Noburo Mori
- 2013Wedding Palace — Jason
- Baby Daddy — Tommy Kwan
- Chicago Fire — Ethan Choi
- 2012Shake It Up: Made in Japan — Mr. Itou
- Grimm — Akira Kimura
- Mortal Kombat: Legacy — Liu Kang
- 2011The Historian Paradox — Avith Kang
- 2010Chain Letter — Brian Yee
- Hawaii Five-0 — Hideaki Kuroda
- Shake It Up — Mr. Itou
- Sym-Bionic Titan — Mike Chan (voice)
- Dark Blue — Kang
- 2009Deadland — Jax
- Lie to Me — Bodyguard (Han Yong-Dae)
- Crash — Eddie Choi
- Burn Notice — Takeda
- 2007Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee — Mac Chang
- 2006All In — Rosenbloom Player 2
- Jericho — Cheung
- 2006The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift — D.K.
- The Unit — Rebel Leader
- Bones — Ken Nakamura
- 2005Fun with Dick and Jane — Sushi Chef
- Grey's Anatomy — Andy Meltzer
- Wanted — Jin-Lee Park
- Zoey 101 — Kazu
- Cracking Up — Frat Guy
- Entourage — Fukijama Crew Member
- 2004Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation — Cpl. Thom Kobe
- 2004Tiger Cruise — MA2 Chan
- 2002Austin Powers in Goldmember — Japanese Pedestrian
- Monk — James Lu
- 2002We Were Soldiers — Pfc. Jimmy Nakayama
- Without a Trace — Kirk
- The Chronicle — Neo
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Denny Ocampo
- The Invisible Man — Mallon
- 2000What Planet Are You From? — Alien (uncredited)
- Family Law — DEA Agent
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer — Intern
- The Pretender — Male Agent