Reggie Lee Net Worth 2021 Movies and TV Shows

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Introduction

Reggie Lee is a Philippine-American film and television actor who is also part Chinese. On television, he has played William “Bill” Kim on Prison Break and Sergeant Drew Wu on Grimm. In film, he has played Tai Huang in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, GCPD Officer Ross in The Dark Knight Rises and Lance Nguyen in The Fast and the Furious.

Early life

Reggie Telmo Valdez was born on October 4, 1975 (age 35 years) in Quezon City, the Philippines. His parents are Zenaida Telmo and Jesus Espiritu Valdez. Although fluent in English, he also speaks Tagalog. At the age of five, he moved with his family to the Cleveland, Ohio area, including Parma and Strongsville. While still a student, he performed in shows at the Greenbrier Theatre (now the Cassidy Theatre) in Parma Heights and was an intern at the Cleveland Play House. He graduated from Padua Franciscan High School in Parma.

Although accepted to Harvard, he instead decided to move to Los Angeles to pursue acting. He later changed his last name from Valdez to Lee, stating in a 2001 interview that “they kept calling me in for Hispanic roles, and I’m a far cry from Hispanic”; he took the name Lee from his grandparents.

Career

In 1992, at the age of 17, Lee moved to Los Angeles, where he joined a national tour of Miss Saigon. He later worked as a dancer for Prince on the MTV Video Music Awards and toured nationally with the musical Heartstrings. He was in the original company of the 1994 Broadway revival of Carousel. In 1997, he received a Drama-Logue Award for his performance in F.O.B. at East West Players, an Asian-American theatre organization in Los Angeles. With his role garnering critical acclaim, he also starred in their production of Carry the Tiger to the Mountain.

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Since starring as Lance Nguyen in The Fast and the Furious, Lee appeared as Tai Huang in the Walt Disney Pictures film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. He has played Secret Service Special Agent Bill Kim in the FOX drama Prison Break, a character he describes as “a guilty pleasure to play, wonderfully complex and devious”. He appeared in Chinaman’s Chance, about which he said “It’s an important story that definitely needs to be told and humanized. Plus I get to play pretend in the Old West. How great is that?”.

In 2010, he guest-starred as Tom in the NBC series Persons Unknown. In 2012, he played Ross, a Gotham City police officer in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises.

From 2011 to 2017, he played Desk Sergeant Drew Wu in the NBC supernatural police drama Grimm. In 2018, for NCIS: New Orleans, he appeared as Assistant Special Agent in Charge Steven Thompson. He previously appeared in an unrelated role in an episode of NCIS. Read: Adam Weitsman and Life story

I’m lookin’ at a new episode of @AllRiseCBS in 10 minutes East coast and so should you! Complete with tie, pocket square, & matching mask. Oh and also complete with some major drama and more than a few laughs. See you there! #allriseforthesecostumes @CBS pic.twitter.com/qUJauDshI1

— Reggie Lee (@MrReggieLee) January 26, 2021

Brothers

Lee has two younger brothers, musician Nathan and comic book artist R.V. Valdez.

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Movies

1999 The Big Blind
2000 Southstreet Lullaby Mahler Greeter
2000 Psycho Beach Party Dancer
2000 Drift Ryan As R.T. Lee
2001 XCU: Extreme Close Up Nuey Phan
2001 The Fast and the Furious Lance Nguyen
2001 The Parlor Slappy Sue short film
2002 Black Hole Justin
2002 Reality School Student
2002 The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest Suit
2003 Masked and Anonymous Armed Man
2003 Net Games Laurence
2004 Frankenfish Anton
2005 Amateur Ron Harper
2006 Dimples Dr. Ross Hammer
2006 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest Hadras

2007 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End Tai Huang
2008 I Am Somebody: No Chance in Hell Sing Also known as Chinaman’s Chance
2008 Tropic Thunder Byong
2009 Drag Me to Hell Stu Rubin
2009 Star Trek Test Administrator Kobayashi Maru
2010 Life as We Know It Alan Burke
2011 Crazy, Stupid, Love Agent Huang
2012 Safe Quan Chang
2012 Here Comes the Boom Mr. De La Cruz
2012 The Dark Knight Rises GCPD Officer Ross
2019 Disappearance Detective Park
2021 Sweet Girl