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Birth Name: Lee Dong-seok (이동석)
Place of Birth: Seoul, South Korea
Date of Birth: March 1, 1971
Ethnicity: Korean
Ma Dong-seok (마동석), or Don Lee, is a Korean-American actor. His roles include the films Dance with the Wind , Heaven’s Soldiers , The Moonlight of Seoul , The Good, the Bad, the Weird ; Insadong Scandal , Midnight FM , The Unjust , Quick , Pained , Perfect Game (2011), Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time , Doomsday Book , The Neighbor (2012), Love 911 , Norigae , Azooma , Rockin’ on Heaven’s Door , The Flu , Marriage Blue , The Five (2013), Murderer , One on One (2014), Kundo: Age of the Rampant , The Royal Traitor , The Chronicles of Evil , Deep Trap , Familyhood , Train to Busan , Derailed (2016), The Outlaws , The Bros (2017), Along With the Gods: The Two Worlds , Champion , Along with the Gods: The Last 49 Days , The Soul-Mate , The Villagers , Unstoppable (2018), The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil ; Long Live the King , The Bad Guys: Reign of Chaos , Start-Up , Ashfall , Eternals , The Roundup (2022), and its sequels; Men of Plastic , Badland Hunters , and Holy Night: Demon Hunters ; the shows H.I.T , Robber , Tazza , Swallow the Sun , Dr. Champ , Flower Band , Flower Band , Bad Guys , Sense8 , Squad 38 , and Twelve ; and the video game Death Stranding 2: On the Beach . He co-created the show I Not Stupid Too .
He was partly raised in the U.S., and received U.S. citizenship at the age of eighteen, thus forfeiting his Korean citizenship. He moved to South Korea at age thirty to act. Dong-seok is married to sports reporter and media personality Ye Jung-hwa.