Shannon Lee's Family 2023
Shannon Emery Lee, also known as Shan Shan, is an American singer, actress, producer and
entrepreneur.
Shannon Lee was born on 19 April 1969 in Los Angeles, California, USA to the famous martial
arts expert and film star, Bruce Lee and his wife Linda Lee Cadwell.
She had an elder brother named Brandon Lee.
She is the granddaughter of Lee Hoi-Chuen, a renowned Cantonese opera singer.
She is of Chinese, German and Swedish decent.
She lived in Hong Kong from 1971 to 1973 with her parents.
Shannon was four years old when her father died and did not fully understand the implications
of his death.
Her mother moved to the USA after the death of her husband and lived in Seattle, Washington
with her children.
She was brought up in California with her brother Brandon Lee, who also later died in
an accident while shooting for a film.
She attended Chadwick School, from where she graduated in 1978.
She went on to study voice at the Tulane University in New Orleans, from where she majored in
music in 1991.
During her University days she took part in numerous concerts, operas and musical shows.
Her brother Brandon Lee died of gunshot wounds due to an accident while shooting for a movie
after which Shannon moved to Los Angeles in 1993 to pursue a career in acting.
She was then 27 years old and wanted to carry on with the legacy of her father.
She learnt the martial art called ‘Jeet Kune Do’ from Richard Bustillo, who was
her father’s student and further improved her martial arts skills with serious training
under another of her father’s pupil named Ten Wong.
She also learnt ‘Taekwondo’ and ‘Wushu’ under Dung Doa and Eric Chen respectively.
Later, she mastered Kickboxing, which she displayed while shooting for her movie roles.
People tried to tell her that acting was not good for the family but Shannon decided to
maintain the legacy of her father and learnt martial arts from her father’s students.
She then made her debut into films and television with movies like ‘Enter the Eagles’ and
‘Martial Law’.
She endeavours to preserve and promote the legacy of her father in her capacity as the
president of the Bruce Lee Foundation and Bruce Lee Enterprises.
She has also hosted shows connected with martial arts and performed as a singer with pop groups.
There have been legal issues with her uncles and cousins over the rights of Bruce Lee’s
legacy which she has been able to amicably handle along with her mother.
She was instrumental in founding the Bruce Lee Action Museum in Seattle.
Shannon got married to a lawyer named Anthony Keasler in 1994.
Ian is a lucky man to have a wife like Shannon Lee in his life.
Ian and Shannon met for the first time in August 1988, while they were in college.
After the first meeting, they kept in touch with each other via phone calls.
Eventually, Anthony and Shannon started liking and hanging up with each other again and again.
As time passes, they realized that they were in love.
Subsequently, Keasler and Lee exchanged the vows on August 22, 1994, after dating for
six years.
It is the fact, the couple kept their married life out of the media so they could live happily.
Keasler and his wife, Shannon Lee, shared a daughter named Wren Keasler.
Wren is the only child of them, born in 2003 after ten years of their marriage.
Ian’s daughter looks like her mother and features in a few posts along with his wife
on social media.
The family of three lives in California, Los Angeles.
Ian doesn’t like to appear on the camera, whereas his daughter has grown in front of
the camera.
Wren attended many functions, events, and campaigns with her mother.
Further, she is also known as the granddaughter of Linda Lee Cadwell and late actor Bruce
Lee.
She loves getting involved in charitable works.
She is a strong believer in her father’s philosophy of ‘honestly express yourself,
be your best self, cultivate yourself and don’t imitate anyone’.
She has dedicated her life to carry her father’s name and legacy forward.
There have always been frictions and legal disputes between Shannon and her father’s
other siblings and their children over the rights to her father’s legacy.
While she and her mother are based in the USA, the rest of her father’s family are
traditionally Chinese.
Though the two sides do not communicate much, Shannon has endeavoured to keep the relationship
cordial.
When Bruce Lee died, his legacy was divided as 50% to his wife, Linda Lee and 25 % each
to his two children, Shannon and Brandon.
This became a bone of contention with rest of her father’s family who maintained that
they were not kept informed.
In 2010, she took the copyright issue to China and accused companies of using Bruce Lee’s
name without the authorization of the Bruce Lee Foundation.
She also approached the local authorities of Bruce Lee’s ancestral home to hand over
Bruce Lee’s trademark to
the Foundation.