Steven Yeun
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
65
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
The Walking Dead
American Dad!
Late Night with Seth Meyers
INVINCIBLE
Conan
The Big Bang Theory
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Golden Globe Awards
The Legend of Korra
Mickey 17
Warehouse 13
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Comedy Bang! Bang!
The Soup
American Masters
BEEF
The Oscars
Voltron: Legendary Defender
Bajillion Dollar Propertie$
The Robot Chicken Walking Dead Special: Look Who's Walking
Nope
Final Space
The Twilight Zone
Law & Order: LA
The Rip
Minari
I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
3Below: Tales of Arcadia
Space Jam: A New Legacy
Burning
The Star
Tuca & Bertie
Talking Dead
Animals
Love Me
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
Ride with Norman Reedus
Mayhem
Okja
Wizards: Tales of Arcadia
I Origins
Dinner Time Live with David Chang
The Walking Dead: The Return
Netflix Tudum 2025
Bubble & Squeak
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
Sorry to Bother You
The Making of The Walking Dead
The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender
Next Entertainment, Visionary
Ugly Delicious
Weird City
Like a French Film
Stretch Armstrong & the Flex Fighters
Carpe Millennium
My Name Is Jerry
The Humans
Untitled Lee Isaac Chung Project
Naysayer
Crash Site
Who?
T-Shirt Hurt
