Steven Yeun

Steven Yeun was born as Yeun Sang-yeop on December 21, 1983 in Seoul, South Korea, to parents Je and June Yeun. He has a brother named Brian Yeun. He was raised in Troy, Michigan. His parents changed his name to "Steven" after meeting an American doctor with the same name. Yeun graduated from the Kalamazoo College, earning his bachelor's degree in psychology in the year 2005. Coming to the actor’s love life, he has been married to Joana Pak since 2016.

Steven Yeun developed an interest in acting during his freshman year at college. After graduation, he moved to Chicago and joined the sketch comedy group ‘Stir Friday Night’ followed by ‘The Second City’ and then moved to Los Angeles in 2009. The same year, he did small roles in the films ‘The Kari Files’ and ‘My Name Is Jerry’. The following year, the actor’s breakthrough role came when he was offered the series ‘The Walking Dead’. This drama earned several positive reviews from television critics and even became the highest rated TV series in the cable television history. The same year, Yeun did an episode in ‘The Big Bang Theory’ as well as two short films namely ‘Carpe Millennium’ and ‘Blowout Sale’ respectively.

In 2012, the actor appeared in the TV shows ‘NTSF:SD:SUV::’ and ‘Harder Than it Looks’. A year later, he lent his voice to the character of Avatar Wan in the series ‘The Legend of Korra’. After this, Yeun did three television projects, ‘Drunk History’, ‘American Dad’ and ‘Comedy Bang! Bang!’ In 2016, the South Korean-American star was offered voice work for ‘Voltron: Legendary Defender’ and ‘Trollhunters’. These series are running till now. In 2017, he did two movies ‘Mayhem’ and ‘Okja’. Note that Yeun has also done voice work for video games such as ‘Crysis’ and ‘Crysis Warhead’.