Ki Hong Lee Biography

Ki Hong Lee (born September 30, 1986) is a Korean-American actor. He is best known for playing the role of Minho in The Maze Runner and Dong Nguyen in the Netflix's series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

Early life and education

Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea, on September 30, 1986. When he was six years old, his parents moved the family to Auckland, New Zealand. When he was eight, his family moved to Los Angeles, California.

Lee studied psychology at University of California, Berkeley from 2004 to 2008. While at college, Lee was part of a college chapter of Liberty in North Korea (LiNK) and interned at their headquarters. After college, he worked at his parents' restaurant in Little Tokyo while pursuing acting.

Lee began acting in middle school, performing in church skits, and grew to love the stage and maintains a passion for theater. Lee says he was inspired to further pursue acting when he saw Aaron Yoo acting in the film Disturbia while at college.

Career

Lee debuted on stage in Wrinkles presented by East West Players and directed by Jeff Liu which opened on February 16, 2011 and closed on March 13, 2011 at the David Henry Hwang Theater at the Union Center for the Arts in Downtown Los Angeles.

Since 2010, Lee has guest starred in many different TV shows such as Victorious, The Secret Life of the American Teenager and Modern Family before landing a main role in ABC Family's The Nine Lives of Chloe King.

Since 2012, Lee has collaborated with Wong Fu Productions (WFP) featuring in more than five short videos including the Away We Happened mini-series. On June 26, 2014, it was announced that Lee was cast in WFP's first feature film Everything Before Us, which focuses on "two couples at different stages of their relationships, set in a world where "all relationship activity is documented and monitored by the Department of Emotional Integrity (DEI)" and is assigned a number like a credit score." The film will also star The Tomorrow Peoples Aaron Yoo and Veep 's Randall Park.

In 2013, Lee made his full-length film debut in the YouTube, two-part film adaptation of Yellowface, from playwright David Henry Hwang.

On April 18, 2013, director Wes Ball announced via Twitter that Lee had been cast in the film adaptation of the young-adult dystopian science fiction novel, The Maze Runner, as Minho, the keeper of the Runners in charge of navigating and mapping out the Maze. This was Lee's feature film debut. He reprised the role in the sequel, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, which was released on September 18, 2015.

Personal life

Ki Hong Lee married Hayoung Choi on March 7, 2015. Choi played Lee's character's new girlfriend in the 2013 short film She Has a Boyfriend, by Wong Fu Productions.

Filmography

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2013	Yellow Face	BD Wong
2014	The Maze Runner	Minho
2015	The Stanford Prison Experiment	Gavin Chan
2015	Everything Before Us	Jay
2015	Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials	Minho
2017	The Mayor	Steve
2017	Wish Upon	Ryan Hui
2018	Maze Runner: The Death Cure	Minho	Post-production

Short film

Television

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2011	All in All	Jeremy
2012	Take It Slow	Brian	Wong Fu Productions
	Fratervention: The End of Bro'ing Out	Keith
	Away We Happened	Ben	Wong Fu Productions Mini-Series 6 episodes
	Always You	James	YOMYOMF Network
	MotherLover	Chaz Seong	YOMYOMF Network Mini-Series 6 episodes
2013	The Master Chef	John Suh	Jubilee Project
	This Is How We Never Met	Boy	Wong Fu Productions
	Somewhere Like This	Boyfriend
	To Those Nights	Elijah bar friends
	She Has a Boyfriend	Frank
2014	This Time	Manny Park	Jubilee Project
2017	Asian Bachelorette	Tom	Wong Fu Productions

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2010	Victorious	Clayton	2 episodes: "Robarazzi" " The Diddly Bops"
	The Secret Life of the American Teenager	Student #2	1 episode: "Which Way Did She Go?"
	Modern Family	Busboy	1 episode: "Mother Tucker"
2011	The Nine Lives of Chloe King	Paul	Main role 10 episodes
	New Girl	Hector	1 episode: "Bells"
2012	The Client List	Delivery Guy	1 episode: "Turn the Page"
2013	Blue Bloods	David Lin	S4 E4: "The Truth About Lying"
2014	NCIS	Chris Hoffman	S11 E15: "Bulletproof"
2015-2016	Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt	Dong Nguyen	recurring role 8 episodes
2015	The Whispers	Peter Kim	1 episode: "X Marks The Spot"

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2011	Wrinkles	Jason