Yeun Sang-Yeop (Korean: ์ฐ์์ฝ; born December 21, 1983), known professionally as Steven Yeun (/jสn/ YUHN), is an American actor. Yeun initially became famous for playing Glenn Rhee in The Walking Dead (2010โ2016). He earned critical acclaim for the films Burning (2018) and Minari (2020). The latter earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor, making him the first Asian American actor to be nominated. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2021. In 2023, he starred in the dark comedy series Beef (2023), for which he won two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. Yeun has also appeared in the films Okja (2017), Sorry to Bother You (2018), The Humans (2021) and Nope (2022). He has also voiced main characters in animated television series such as Voltron: Legendary Defender (2016โ2018), Tales of Arcadia (2016โ2021), Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters (2017โ2018), Final Space (2018โ2021), Tuca & Bertie (2019โ2022), and Invincible (2021โpresent). Description above from the Wikipedia article Steven Yeun, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.