
Brian Tee
Department: Acting
Biography
Brian Tee (born Jae-Beom Takata) is a Japanese-born American actor. At the age of two, he and his family moved from Japan to Hacienda Heights, CA. He is most known for his starring role as Dr. Ethan Choi on NBC's Chicago Med and for his role as D.K. Takashi in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. In James Mangold's The Wolverine (2013), starring Hugh Jackman, Tee played Noburo Mori, a sadistic minister of justice arranged to marry the daughter of the Yakuza Boss. He played Shredder in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, the 2016 sequel to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Known For

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
2006

The Wolverine
2013

Deadland
2009

Wedding Palace
2013

Tiger Cruise
2004

Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation
2004

No Tears for the Dead
2014

One Christmas Eve
2014

Jurassic World
2015

The Gabby Douglas Story
2014

The Beautiful Ones
2017

Roswell FM
2017

We Were Soldiers
2002

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
2016

Austin Powers in Goldmember
2002

Fun with Dick and Jane
2005

The Historian Paradox
2011

Chain Letter
2010

Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee
2007

All In
2006

What Planet Are You From?
2000

A House of Dynamite
2025

Shake It Up: Made In Japan
2012

Enough
2026

Jericho
2006

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000

Zoey 101
2005

Monk
2002

The Pretender
1996

Bones
2005

The Unit
2006

Without a Trace
2002

The Invisible Man
2000

Crash
2008

Family Law
1999

Wanted
2005

Dark Blue
2009

Legends
2014

Mortal Kombat: Legacy
2011

Sym-Bionic Titan
2010

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1997

The Chronicle
2001

Grimm
2011

Expats
2024

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
2013

Burn Notice
2007

Baby Daddy
2012

Chicago Med
2015

Grey's Anatomy
2005

Zoo
2015

Chicago P.D.
2014

Chicago Fire
2012

Lie to Me
2009

Chicago P.D.
2014

Lucifer
2016

Shake It Up
2010

Get Jiro!
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Hawaii Five-0
2010

Entourage
2004

Reacher
2022

Cracking Up
2004