{"id":516,"date":"2026-07-06T23:07:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T23:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovemoviesnight.com\/?movie_engine_person=steven-yeun"},"modified":"2026-07-06T23:07:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T23:07:34","slug":"steven-yeun","status":"publish","type":"movie_engine_person","link":"https:\/\/lovemoviesnight.com\/?movie_engine_person=steven-yeun","title":{"rendered":"Steven Yeun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeun Sang-Yeop\u00a0(Korean:\u00a0\uc5f0\uc0c1\uc5fd; born December 21, 1983), known professionally as\u00a0Steven Yeun\u00a0(\/j\u028cn\/\u00a0YUHN), is an American actor. Yeun initially became famous for playing\u00a0Glenn Rhee\u00a0in\u00a0The Walking Dead (2010\u20132016). He earned critical acclaim for the films\u00a0Burning\u00a0(2018) and\u00a0\u00a0Minari\u00a0(2020). The latter earned him a nomination for the\u00a0Academy Award for Best Actor, making him the first\u00a0Asian American\u00a0actor to be nominated.\u00a0Time\u00a0magazine named him one of the\u00a0100 most influential people in the world\u00a0in 2021.\u00a0In 2023, he starred in the dark comedy series\u00a0Beef\u00a0(2023), for which he won two\u00a0Primetime Emmy Awards\u00a0and a\u00a0Golden Globe Award.<\/p>\n<p>Yeun has also appeared in the films\u00a0Okja\u00a0(2017),\u00a0Sorry to Bother You\u00a0(2018),\u00a0The Humans\u00a0(2021) and\u00a0Nope\u00a0(2022). He has also voiced main characters in animated television series such as\u00a0Voltron: Legendary Defender\u00a0(2016\u20132018),\u00a0Tales of Arcadia\u00a0(2016\u20132021),\u00a0Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters\u00a0(2017\u20132018),\u00a0Final Space (2018\u20132021),\u00a0Tuca &#038; Bertie\u00a0(2019\u20132022), and\u00a0Invincible\u00a0(2021\u2013present).<\/p>\n<p>Description above from the Wikipedia article Steven Yeun, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeun Sang-Yeop\u00a0(Korean:\u00a0\uc5f0\uc0c1\uc5fd; born December 21, 1983), known professionally as\u00a0Steven Yeun\u00a0(\/j\u028cn\/\u00a0YUHN), is an American actor. Yeun initially became famous for playing\u00a0Glenn Rhee\u00a0in\u00a0The Walking Dead (2010\u20132016). He earned critical acclaim for the films\u00a0Burning\u00a0(2018) and\u00a0\u00a0Minari\u00a0(2020). 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