Actress and daughter of martial artist and actor Bruce Lee
Previously Aired On: September 25, 2007 - Listen to the Show!
Shannon Lee is an American actress and daughter of Bruce Lee and his widow Linda Lee Cadwell. Shannon’s brother was the lateactor and martial artist Brandon Lee. Shannon’s father, Bruce Lee, was an American-born martial artist, philosopher, instructor, and actor widely regarded as the most influential martial artist of the 20th century.
Shannon was born in Los Angeles, California, the second child to Bruce and Linda Lee. Shannon and her family lived in Hong Kong from 1971 to 1973, after which her mother moved back to the United States following the death of her father. She has Chinese, German, Swedish and English descent.
Graduating from The Chadwick School in 1987, Shannon then attended Tulane University in New Orleans, where she studied voice and graduated in 1991. She moved back to Los Angeles in 1993 after her brother’s death to pursue acting. She married lawyer Ian Keasler in 1994, and they have one daughter,Wren, who was born in 2003.
As a young girl Shannon learned basic fighting forms from her father and has since trained under Tae-kwondo Master and Kung Fu Superstar, ‘Flashleg’ Tan Tao Liang AND World Kick-boxing Champion Benny ‘The Jet’ Urquidez!
Shannon has acted in films in the 1990s such as Cage II (1994), High Voltage (1997) and Enter the Eagles (1998). She also had brief appearances in her father’s biopic Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (she was the one singing “California Dreaming” in the dance scene at the Hollywood producer’s house as Bruce and Linda dance), the film Blade and the television series Martial Law which starred Sammo Hung. In 2000 she appeared in the science-fiction television film Epoch which aired on the Sci Fi Channel.
Shannon was also the television host of WMAC Masters for the first season. You may have recently seen her host Enter The Dragon on Spike TV and also briefly interviewed on Spike’s UFC Championship Fight series.
Shannon has also sung on the band Medicine’s album The Mechanical Forces of Love in 2003 and a cover of “I’m in the Mood for Love” for the movie China Strike Force (2000), which starred Lee Hom Wang and Aaron Kwok.
Shannon and her husband Ian currently run The Bruce Lee Foundation, which is dedicated to educating, inspiring and helping others understand the attributes and virtues of courage, tolerance, persistence, creativity, intelligence and creativity that Bruce Lee cherished and exemplified during his life.
Please visit: http://www.BruceLeeFoundation.org
September 25th, 2007
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