- Born
- Birth nameKenneth Leung
- Height5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
- Ken Leung was raised in the Two Bridges section of the Lower East Side in New York City. His family moved to Midwood, Brooklyn where he grew up before finishing high school in Old Bridge, New Jersey. He attended NYU and studied acting with Catherine Russell and Nan Smithner, then briefly with Anne Jackson at HB Studio.
He emerged from Manhattan's downtown theater community in the 1990s and flourished in non-traditional productions that included Jeff Weiss' Hot Keys; Terrence McNally's passion play Corpus Christi; and as Buckingham opposite Austin Pendleton's Richard III.
His early career is defined by the relationships he established with theater groups like Ma-Yi, New Perspectives, and STAR, a traveling troupe of actors-educators based in Mount Sinai Hospital. In 2002, he made his Broadway debut in the Tony Award-winning musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie.
Leung has gone on to establish himself in mainstream features including two films with Spike Lee.
- IMDb mini biography by: NB
- SpouseNancy Bulalacao(? - present)
- Worked on 3 projects alongside Michael Emerson - Saw, Lost, and Person of Interest.
- Made his Broadway debut as Ching Ho in the 2002 Tony Award winning musical "Thoroughly Modern Millie."
- The character Tony Chu from the comic book series Chew is based on his likeness.
- Was considered for the role of Wah Sing Ku in Lethal Weapon 4 (1998).
- Frequently works with Brett Ratner.
- I haven't been in a position to have the luxury to pick roles for most of my career, so I'm not practiced in that. Usually, when you want to be an actor, you take whatever comes along. If there's an audition, you go for it. If you get the job, you do it - just to get experience, to act, to meet people.
- I have an awareness of a spiritual realm, and I see signs that I feel speak to me - I don't know if that falls into superstition.
- If I'm in a room full of intense people, I'm pretty normal. If I'm in a room full of people who aren't, maybe I'm intense. I don't know, I don't think of it that way.
- My face frowns by default, so when I'm most calm is when I appear the least approachable.
- You ask politicians a question, and they have an answer. It's almost like the more articulate the answer, the more something feels wrong because that question takes thought.
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