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Brian Tee

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.

Filmography

2025
A House of Dynamite

as SAIC Ken Cho

Movie
2015
Jurassic World

as Hamada

Movie
2013
The Wolverine

as Noburo Mori

Movie
2006
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

as D.K.

Movie
2004
Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation

as Cpl. Thom Kobe

Movie
2002
We Were Soldiers

as Pfc. Jimmy Nakayama

Movie
2022
Reacher

as Xavier Quinn

TV Show