Brandon Lee

Biography

Li Guo Hao (Brandon Lee) was an American actor of Chinese descent, born on February 1, 1965, in Oakland, California, USA. He was the son of legendary martial artist Bruce Lee (Li Xiao Long) and his wife Linda Lee, and had one sister named Li Xiang Ning. Li Guo Hao lived in Hong Kong during his father's fame there, and after his father's death, he returned with his mother to Los Angeles. He enrolled at Emerson College in Boston to study film production but dropped out midway. He began his acting career in 1986, playing the second male lead in the American TV movie "Kung Fu: The Movie," and in the same year made his cinematic debut in the Hong Kong film "Legacy of Rage." He then returned to the United States and continued his career, starring in "Laser Mission" in 1989 and playing the second male lead in "Rapid Fire" in 1991. He did not secure a leading role in a theatrically released American film until 1992 with "Showdown in Little Tokyo." In 1987, he was nominated for Best New Performer at the 6th Hong Kong Film Awards for "Legacy of Rage." On March 31, 1993, while filming "The Crow" in North Carolina, he was accidentally shot with a real bullet during a scene using a blank-firing revolver, causing a stomach wound and severe bleeding. He died after six hours of emergency treatment at the age of 28. He was buried alongside his father Bruce Lee at Lake View Cemetery in Seattle. In 1995, he was posthumously nominated for Best Actor at the 4th MTV Movie Awards for "The Crow." In 2021, a firearms expert conducted an experiment recreating the incident that took his life, confirming that primer ignition alone was sufficient to discharge the squib-loaded bullet from the barrel.