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Byron Mann
 Name:
Byron Mann
Height: 5' 11" (1.80 m)
Birth Place: Hong Kong
Religion: Christianity
Education: University, Post-graduate (law)
Favorite sports: Golf, tennis
In early 2003, Byron Mann rejoined with director Tony Ching and starred
opposite Steven Seagal in Belly of the Beast, playing a CIA operative
who risks his life to save Seagal’s character in the political thriller
set in Thailand. That Fall, Mann co-starred with Halle Berry and Sharon
Stone in Warner Brothers’ actioner Catwoman. After wrapping, Mann
starred opposite Oscar-nominee Tom Berenger in Sony Picture’s Sniper
3, playing an undercover detective who partners with Berenger’s character
to hunt down a renegade American G.I. in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City.
The following year proved to be an even busier year. The Counting House
marked Mann’s first foray into the horror genre, in which he played
the leading role of a dark, volatile villager with haunting secrets; Maggie
Q (Mission: Impossible 3) and Cheng Pei Pei (Crouching Tiger, Hidden
Dragon) costar. He then teamed up with Kelly
Hu (The Scorpion King) in the romantic comedy The Shanghai Kid, a
satirical look at life and love in contemporary China. Mann rounded up
the year headlining Dragon Boys (see photo gallery for exclusive pictures),
a ground-breaking drama about Asian organized crime in Canada. He starred
as a gang-squad detective with Hong Kong superstar Eric Tsang (Infernal
Affairs) in this production.
A child of a cosmopolitan upbringing, Mann was brought up by an American-Chinese
mother and attended a British boarding school in Hong Kong where he spent
much of his youth. Having won many theater awards in high-school, Mann
attended the University of California in Los Angeles where he graduated
magna cum laude in Philosophy with Phi Beta Kappa honors. He then attended
law school at the University of Southern California, but soon realized
that the legal profession was not his cup of tea. He returned to Hong
Kong to soul-search, only to find himself acting in commercials and films
there.
When he was hired for the NBC telefilm The Last Flight Out, the producer
encouraged Mann to return to Los Angeles where he could develop as an
actor. He took his advice, and never looked back.
An accomplished martial artist, Mann is fluent in Chinese and has a solid
fan base in both Asia and the U.S. He is a championship-caliber tennis
player, having won many junior-circuit tennis tournaments. He is also
an avid golfer, and splits his time between North America and Asia.
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