Steven Yeun
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
63
Gender
Male
Birthday
1983-12-21 (41 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
American Dad!
The Walking Dead
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Conan
INVINCIBLE
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Big Bang Theory
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Golden Globe Awards
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
The Legend of Korra
Warehouse 13
The Soup
American Masters
Comedy Bang! Bang!
Mickey 17
Law & Order: LA
The Oscars
Talking Dead
The Twilight Zone
Voltron: Legendary Defender
Nope
BEEF
Wizards: Tales of Arcadia
Sorry to Bother You
Final Space
Burning
The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender
The Rip
Space Jam: A New Legacy
Bajillion Dollar Propertie$
I Origins
3Below: Tales of Arcadia
I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
Dinner Time Live with David Chang
Netflix Tudum 2025
The Star
Minari
Tuca & Bertie
Okja
Ride with Norman Reedus
Like a French Film
The Humans
The Making of The Walking Dead
The Walking Dead: The Return
Animals
Weird City
Next Entertainment, Visionary
Love Me
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
The Robot Chicken Walking Dead Special: Look Who's Walking
My Name Is Jerry
Ugly Delicious
Stretch Armstrong & the Flex Fighters
Bubble & Squeak
Mayhem
Untitled Lee Isaac Chung Project
Crash Site
Naysayer
Carpe Millennium
