Steven Yeun
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
66
Gender
Male
Birthday
1983-12-21 (42 years old)
Place of Birth
Seoul, South Korea
Steven Yeun
Biography
Yeun Sang-Yeop (Korean: 연상엽; born December 21, 1983), known professionally as Steven Yeun (/jʌn/ YUHN), is an American actor. Yeun initially became famous for playing Glenn Rhee in The Walking Dead (2010–2016). He earned critical acclaim for the films Burning (2018) and Minari (2020). The latter earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor, making him the first Asian American actor to be nominated. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2021. In 2023, he starred in the dark comedy series Beef (2023), for which he won two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. Yeun has also appeared in the films Okja (2017), Sorry to Bother You (2018), The Humans (2021) and Nope (2022). He has also voiced main characters in animated television series such as Voltron: Legendary Defender (2016–2018), Tales of Arcadia (2016–2021), Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters (2017–2018), Final Space (2018–2021), Tuca & Bertie (2019–2022), and Invincible (2021–present). Description above from the Wikipedia article Steven Yeun, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
The Rip
The Walking Dead
American Dad!
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Conan
Golden Globe Awards
The Big Bang Theory
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Invincible
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Legend of Korra
Warehouse 13
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
The Soup
The Oscars
Mickey 17
Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia
American Masters
Talking Dead
Comedy Bang! Bang!
BEEF
The Twilight Zone
Voltron: Legendary Defender
Law & Order: LA
Love Me
3Below: Tales of Arcadia
Animals
Final Space
I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
Nope
Space Jam: A New Legacy
Dinner Time Live with David Chang
Burning
Ride with Norman Reedus
Okja
Mayhem
Bajillion Dollar Propertie$
Wizards: Tales of Arcadia
Sorry to Bother You
Tuca & Bertie
Next Entertainment, Visionary
Stretch Armstrong & the Flex Fighters
I Origins
Weird City
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
Minari
The Star
Crash Site
The Walking Dead: The Return
The Humans
Ugly Delicious
Netflix Tudum 2025
The Making of The Walking Dead
The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender
Carpe Millennium
Naysayer
The Robot Chicken Walking Dead Special: Look Who's Walking
Like a French Film
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
Untitled Lee Isaac Chung Project
Bubble & Squeak
My Name Is Jerry
Who?
T-Shirt Hurt
