Paul Sun-Hyung Lee


Paul Sun-Hyung Lee is a Korean Canadian actor and television host. He is best known for his roles as Randy Ko in the soap opera Train 48 and as family patriarch Appa in the 2011 play Kim's Convenience, as well as its television adaptation.
Lee has been nominated twice for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male in a Principal Role, Large Theatre, for The Monster Under the Bed in 2010 and Kim's Convenience in 2012. He Won Best Leading Actor in a Comedy Series in the 2017 and 2018 Canadian Screen Awards.

Early life

When Lee was three months old, his parents immigrated from South Korea to Canada, living in London, Toronto and Calgary. In 1990, he moved back to Toronto to attend the University of Toronto, where he attended but did not complete the drama programme at University College.

Career

He had a supporting role in the film Ice Princess playing Tiffany's father. Lee appeared in the horror film P2 and the thriller The Echo. In 2006, he took the role of Jung Park in the videogame ' and its 2008 sequel '.
Lee was part of the main cast of the Global Television nightly improvised soap opera Train 48 in the role of Randy Ko for the entire run of the series from 2003 to 2005.
In 2012, Lee won the Best Actor citation from the Toronto Theatre Critics' Awards for his portrayal of Kim Sang-il in Kim's Convenience. He played the role of Appa on stage in several Toronto productions of Kim's Convenience and on a national tour with the Soulpepper theatre company, as well as at an Off Broadway staging of the play. He brought the role of Appa to television in 2016 when the show was adapted as a television series. On January 11, 2017, he guest starred on an episode of This Hour Has 22 Minutes.
Lee has been nominated twice for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male in a Principal Role, Large Theatre, for The Monster Under the Bed in 2010 and Kim's Convenience in 2012. At the 2017 and 2018 Canadian Screen Awards, he won the award for Best Actor in a Continuing Leading Comedic Role for his portrayal of Appa in the Kim's Convenience television series. Lee was selected to host the fourth season of the reality competition show Canada's Smartest Person, entitled Canada's Smartest Person Junior and featuring children as contestants.
Lee is also a playwright, with his own play Dangling premiering at Toronto's fu-GEN theatre festival in 2010.

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games