Pak Ho-Sung

Acting · Crew · Production

Born November 8, 1967, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Pak Ho-Sung (born November 8, 1967) is an American film actor, martial artist, action choreographer, writer, and producer. Pak, a Korean American, was born in Seoul, South Korea. Not only did he play as the main villain of the first Mortal Kombat game, Shang Tsung, but he also played the Mortal Kombat champion Liu Kang for the first game and Mortal Kombat II. He was a stunt coordinator for the movie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze as well as a stunt double for Raphael; he later reprised his role of stunt double in the movie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III. In 1995, he and fellow MK actors Daniel Pesina, Katalin Zamiar, and Dr. Phillip Ahn, M.D. all appeared in a fighting game produced exclusively for the Atari Jaguar titled Thea Realm Fighters, but it was never released after Atari ceased production on the failed system later that year. In 2003, he played the leading role in the martial arts movie The Book of Swords. In it he portrayed Lang, an Asian cop who after witnessing the death of his brother during a drugbust gone wrong, leaves town only to come back three years later for revenge. The movie also starred MK actors Daniel Pesina, Katalin Zamiar and Richard Divizio. In a nod to his Mortal Kombat alter ego Liu Kang, Pak is shown wearing a red headband during the final part of the movie, while the other three actors are also seen in similar MK clothing/roles throughout the movie. In 2004 Pak starred in the martial film Lesser of Three Evils, directed by Wayne A. Kennedy, also starring Roger Guenveur Smith, Peter Greene, Rosa Blasi and Sherilyn Fenn. The film was produced by Ho-Sung Pak, Wayne A. Kennedy and Matthew Chausse who created together the film company GenOne. It was released in 2009 under the title Fist of the Warrior. During the 1995-1997 show WMAC Masters, his ki-symbol was "Superstar", which is a translation of his given Korean name. His older brother, Ho Young Pak ("Star Warrior"), as well as fellow Mortal Kombat actors Chris Casamassa ("Red Dragon"), Hakim Alston (Machine) and Richard Branden (Yin Yang Man) also appeared on the show. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ho-Sung Pak, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2026Protector — Producer, Stunt Coordinator
• 2022Bullet Train — Stunts
• Westworld — Stunts
• 2015Secret in Their Eyes — Peanut Vendor
• 2014Nightcrawler — Stunts
• 2014The Prince — Hotel Clerk (uncredited), Producer, Stunt Coordinator
• 2014Transformers: Age of Extinction — Stunts
• 2013Legend of the Red Reaper — Co-Producer
• 2013Olympus Has Fallen — Korean Commando (uncredited)
• 2012Red Dawn — Chinese Soldier (uncredited)
• 2012The Citizen
• 2012Vamps — Stunts
• Femme Fatales — Fight Trainer, Superstar Assassin, aka The Ghost
• 2010Game of Death — Agent
• 2010The Last Airbender — Stunts
• 2008Railroad to Hell: A Chinaman's Chance — Pong
• 2007Fist of the Warrior — Lee Choe, Producer, Writer
• 200618 Fingers of Death! — Young Buford
• 2006BloodRayne — Kagan Vampire Guard #4
• 2005Alone in the Dark — Agent Marko
• 2002Ultimate Fights from the Movies — Henry (Legend of Drunken Master) (archive footage)
• 2000Epoch of Lotus — Mortis
• 1996Book of Swords — Lang, Writer
• WMAC Masters — Superstar
• 1994The Legend of Drunken Master — Henry
• 1993Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III — Stunts, Stunt Double
• 1991Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze — Stunts, Stunt Double, Stunt Coordinator, Martial Arts Choreographer
• Twilight of the Dead — Producer