shannon lee - chinese american actors

Shannon Emery Lee (Chinese: 李香凝 born April 19, 1969) is an American actress. She is the daughter of martial artist and actor Bruce Lee and his widow Linda Lee Cadwell. Shannon's brother was the late actor Brandon Lee.

Shannon was born in Los Angeles, California, the second child to Bruce and Linda (Emery) Lee. Shannon and her family lived in Hong Kong from 1971 to 1973, after which her mother moved back to the United States following the death of her father. She has Chinese, German, Swedish and English descent. Together, they lived in Seattle, Washington (Linda's hometown) and Los Angeles. Shannon grew up in the affluent area of Rolling Hills.

Graduating from The Chadwick School in 1987, Shannon then attended Tulane University in New Orleans, where she studied voice and graduated in 1991. She moved back to Los Angeles in 1993 after her brother's death to pursue acting. She married lawyer Ian Keasler in 1994, and they have one daughter, Wren, who was born in 2003.

Shannon has acted in a few low budget films in the 1990s such as Cage II (1994), High Voltage (1997) and Enter the Eagles (1998). She also had brief appearances in her father's biopic Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, the film Blade and the television series Martial Law which starred Sammo Hung.

She was also the television host of WMAC Masters for the first season.

She and Ian currently run The Bruce Lee Foundation. She also sang on the band Medicine's album The Mechanical Forces of Love in 2003. Shannon also sang a cover of "I'm in the Mood for Love" for the movie China Strike Force (2000), which starred Lee Hom Wang and Aaron Kwok.
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