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Written By Reduan Koh on Monday, July 4, 2011 | 1:07 AM



Publication Information
  • Bruce Lee : Shannon Lee
  • Version : Bruce Lee
  • Birth Name : Shannon Emery Lee
  • Known as : Shan Shan
  • Age : 49
  • Chinese :
    • Traditional : 李香凝
    • Simplified : 李香凝
  • Ancestry : Shunde, Guangdong, China
  • Born : April 19, 1969
  • Born Place : Los Angeles, California, United States
  • Residence : Los Angeles, California, United States
  • Gender : Female
  • Alma mater :
    • Chadwick School
    • Tulane University
  • Occupation :
    • Businessperson
    • Actress
    • Martial Artist
  • Nationality : American
  • Relative :
Shannon Lee is an American actress, martial artist and businesswoman. She is the daughter of late martial arts film star Bruce Lee and retired martial arts teacher Linda Lee Cadwell, the granddaughter of Cantonese opera singer Lee Hoi-Chuen, and the younger sister of Brandon Lee. She was born in April 19, 1969 in Los Angeles, California to martial arts film star Bruce Lee and Linda Emery, in her youth, she studied Jeet Kune Do, the martial art created by her father, under Richard Bustillo, one of her father's students. However, her serious studies did not begin until the late 1990s.

To train for parts in action movies, she studied Jeet Kune Do with Ted Wong. She studied Taekwondo under Dung Doa Liang and Wushu under Eric Chen. She also studied under the tutelage of the director of Enter the Eagles, Yuen De, Jackie Chan's Chinese opera brother. Because the film Enter the Eagles required her to fight Benny Urquidez, he taught her kickboxing.

Personal life

Lee first met Ian Keasler in August 1988 and were married in August 22, 1994. They later had a daughter named Wren in 2003.

Career

Lee made her acting debut playing a cameo in her father's 1993 biopic film Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story as the party singer of the song "California Dreamin.'" She went on to appear in the direct-to-video films Cage II with bodybuilding veteran and actor Lou Ferrigno and High Voltage with Antonio Sabato Jr. In 1998, she starred in the Hong Kong action film Enter the Eagles, directed by Corey Yuen, co-starring Michael Wong and Anita Yuen.

On television, she guest-starred in an episode of the television series Martial Law alongside Sammo Hung in 1998 and appeared in the sci-fi television film Epoch, which first aired on the Sci Fi Channel in 2001. That same year, she played the leading role in the action film Lessons for an Assassin. She was also the host of the first season of the game show WMAC Masters. She sang on the band Medicine's album The Mechanical Forces of Love in 2003. She sang a cover of "I'm in the Mood for Love" for the movie China Strike Force, which starred Leehom Wang and Aaron Kwok.

Lee is president of the Bruce Lee Foundation. She was the executive producer of the 2008 television series The Legend of Bruce Lee, based on her father's life, and the 2009 documentary film How Bruce Lee Changed the World. In 2015, Perfect Storm Entertainment and Shannon Lee announced that the series The Warrior, based an original idea by Bruce Lee, would be produced and would air on the Cinemax and the filmmaker Justin Lin was chosen to direct the series, scheduled to debut in 2019.

Filmography

Movies
  • 1993 - Dragon : The Bruce Lee Story - Party Singer
  • 1994 - Cage II - Milo
  • 1997 - High Voltage - Jane Logan
  • 1998 - Enter the Eagles - Mandy
  • 1998 - Blade - Resident
  • 2001 - Lessons for an Assassin - Fiona
  • 2002 - She, Me and Her - Paula Jemison
Television
  • 1995 - WMAC Masters
  • 1998 - Martial Law - Vanessa Feng
  • 2000 - Epoch - Pamela
  • 2012 - I Am Bruce Lee - Executive producer Television film
  • 2019 - Warrior - Executive producer Television series


Lee Hoi-chuen

Lee Hoi-chuen

Publication Information
  • Bruce Lee : Lee Hoi-chuen
  • Version : Bruce Lee
  • Birth Name : Lee Moon-shuen
  • Age : 64
  • Chinese :
    • Traditional : 李海泉
    • Simplified : 李海泉
  • Ancestry : Shunde, Guangdong, China
  • Born : 4 February 1901
  • Born Place : Jun'an, Guangdong, China
  • Died : 7 February 1965 (Aged 64)
  • Place : St. Teresa's Hospital, Kowloon, Hong Kong
  • Resting place : Hong Kong
  • Gender : Male
  • Occupation : Cantonese Opera actor
  • Nationality :
  • Relative :
    • Grace Ho : Wife (1907–1965)
    • Linda Lee Cadwell : Daughter-In-Law
    • Shannon Lee : Grand-daughter
    • Brandon Lee : Grand-Son (1965–1993)
    • Anthony Ian Keasler : GrandSon-In-Law
    • Wren Keasler : Great-Grandaughter
  • Children :
Lee Hoi-chuen, was a Hong Kong Cantonese opera singer and film actor. He was the father of Bruce Lee, the father-in-law of Linda Lee Caldwell, and also the paternal grandfather of Brandon Lee and Shannon Lee. Lee was born in Jun'an, Guangdong on 4 February 1901, he moved to Hong Kong and became a Cantonese Opera actor. Lee and his wife Grace Ho, were in San Francisco in 1940 when their second son Bruce Lee was born. The couple were traveling for a one-year US tour with the Cantonese Opera Company.

They returned to Hong Kong when Bruce Lee was three months old. Their youngest son Robert Lee, was famous in Hong Kong during the 1960s as the lead singer and founder of a popular beat band, The Thunderbirds. Lee died in Hong Kong on the 7th of February, 1965, three days after his 64th birthday and six days after the birth of his grandson Brandon Lee.

In popular culture

Lee Hoi-chuen was portrayed by Ric Young in the 1993 film Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story and by Tony Leung Ka-fai in the 2010 film Bruce Lee, My Brother.

In Memories

Lee Hoi-chuen with his wife and baby Bruce Lee in 1940
  • Lee Hoi-chuen with his wife and baby Bruce Lee in 1940'
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Linda Lee Cadwell

Linda Lee Cadwell In 1988

Publication Information Linda Lee Cadwell is an American teacher, best known as the widow of martial arts master and actor Bruce Lee. She was born in Everett, Washington, the daughter of Vivian R. and Everett Emery. Her family was Baptist and of Swedish, Irish, and English descent. She met Bruce Lee while she was attending Garfield High School, where Bruce came to give a kung fu demonstration; he was attending the University of Washington at the time. Eventually, she became one of his kung fu students when she was attending the University of Washington, studying to become a teacher.

She took lessons from him while attending college. They married on August 17, 1964. Linda was a few credits short from graduation. They had two children, Brandon Lee and Shannon Lee. Bruce Lee had opened his own kung fu school at the time and was teaching Wing Chun, which would later serve as the basis for Jeet Kune Do. He died suddenly on July 20, 1973, of an allergic reaction to an analgesic.

Linda was married to Tom Bleecker in 1988, and they divorced in 1990. She later wed stockbroker Bruce Cadwell in 1991 and they live in Rancho Mirage, California. Her son Brandon, an actor, died in a shooting accident on a movie set while filming The Crow on March 31, 1993, 19 years after his father's death. Cadwell has continued to promote Bruce Lee's martial art Jeet Kune Do. She retired in 2001, and her daughter Shannon, together with son-in-law Ian Keasler, run the Bruce Lee Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching Bruce Lee's philosophy on martial arts and his writing on philosophy.

Books

Cadwell wrote the 1975 book Bruce Lee : The Man Only I Knew (ISBN 0-446-89407-9), on which the 1993 feature film Dragon : The Bruce Lee Story was based. She was portrayed by actress Lauren Holly in the film adaptation. She also wrote the 1989 book The Bruce Lee Story (ISBN 0-89750121-7).

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