Brandon Lee was born on February 1st, 1965 to Bruce Lee and Linda Lee. Brother to Shannon Lee. In 1965 his family moved to Hong Kong where Brandon became fluent in Cantonese by the age of 8. He attended the art-oriented Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. In his 28 years, he studied many martial arts and excelled in Muay Thai, Jeet Kune Do, and Yee Chuen Tao. After Bruce Lee's untimely death, Brandon, his mother and sister moved to Los Angeles. He attended high school in Los Angeles, where in 1983 he was expelled from school because of misbehaviour, but received his diploma at Miraleste High school. He realized that he had acting ability along with his martial arts skills which he inherited from his father. He continued his education and interest in acting at Emerson College in Massachusetts, where he majored in theatre. Having chosen an acting career, he studied at the Strasberg Academy, with Eric Morris in New York and in Los Angeles. His first professional job as an actor came at age twenty, when casting director Lynn Stalmaster asked him to read for a CBS television film, "Kung Fu: The Movie." Lee's first role in a feature film was "Legacy of Rage" for D.M. Films of Hong Kong, followed by a co-starring role in "Showdown in Little Tokyo." He turned down offers to be in "Dragon: The Bruce Lee story". On March 31st 1993, Brandon died at the age of 28 on the set of "The Crow". While filming one scene, where he gets shot, the cap of a blank accidently got lodged in his spine after penetrating his abdomen.from www.martialway.com
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