Byron Mann

BYRON MANN began his career when he starred with Jean-Claude Van Damme and the late Raul Julia in Universal Pictures' Street Fighter, followed by the cult actioner Crying Freeman, directed by Christophe Gans (Silent Hill). He furthered his career in the action genre when he starred in Invincible, produced by Mel Gibson and Jet Li. The action in Invincible was directed by Hong Kong director Tony Siu-Tung Ching (Hero, House of Flying Daggers). Mann also worked with Ching on Sony's Belly of the Beast.

Intertwined with the action genre are noted Mann's dramatic turns in MGM's Red Corner, opposite Richard Gere and directed by Jon Avnet; New Line Cinema's The Corruptor, opposite Chow Yun-Fat and Mark Wahlberg and directed by James Foley; Sony's Sniper 3, opposite Tom Berenger; and James Cameron's cult television series Dark Angel, opposite Jessica Alba.

In 2005, Mann headlined the award-winning drama Dragon Boys, alongside Hong Kong's Eric Tsang (Infernal Affairs). For his role in the film, Mann was nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series at the 2007 Gemini Awards. Mann's work also includes comedic turns in Shanghai Kiss, with Kelly Hu (The Scorpion King), and in Blonde and Blonder, with Pamela Anderson and Denise Richards.

In 2010, Mann starred as an ER physician in HBO Canada's Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, based on the Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning book by Vincent Lam. That same year, Mann completed the thriller Jasmine, shot on location in Hong Kong and produced by Stratton Leopold (Mission: Impossible III). The following year, Mann toplined the Canwest Broadcasting/Showcase movie pilot Befriend and Betray, based on the best-selling book about a professional infiltrator of criminal organizations in North America.

Mann co-starred in the Hong Kong cop thriller Cold War, playing an ex-cop who becomes involved in a hostage situation that rapidly spirals out of control. Cold War stars Andy Lau, Tony Leung Ka Fai and Aaron Kwok, and is produced by William Kong.

Mann grew up in Hong Kong and studied at the University of California, Los Angeles, graduating magna cum laude in philosophy.

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