Shannon Lee was born Shannon Emery Lee on April 19, 1969 at UCLA Medical Center, Santa
Monica in Santa Monica, California.
She is an actress, martial artist and businessperson and the only daughter of martial arts film
star Bruce Lee and retired martial arts teacher Linda Lee Cadwell.
Lee appeared in various projects throughout the 90s and early 2000s, including Dragon:
The Bruce Lee Story, Cage II, High Voltage and many others.
Shannon Lee is the youngest child and only daughter of martial arts film star Bruce Lee
and Linda Lee Cadwell, the granddaughter of Cantonese opera singer Lee Hoi-chuen, and
the younger sister of Brandon Lee.
In her youth she studied Jeet Kune Do, the martial art created by her father, under Richard
Bustillo, one of her father's students.
She graduated from Tulane University, where she majored in Voice, in the early 90s, and
then chose to pursue a career in acting.
Lee's husband is Anthony Ian Keasler.
The couple has a daughter named Wren.
Shannon Lee appeared in various projects throughout the 90s and early 2000s.
She made her acting debut playing a cameo in her father's 1993 biopic film Dragon: The
Bruce Lee Story as the party singer of the song "California Dreamin".
Over the next few years, Lee appeared in the direct-to-video films Cage II (1994), High
Voltage (1997) and Hong Kong action film Enter the Eagles (1998), directed by Corey Yuen.
On television, she guest-starred in an episode of the television series Martial Law alongside Sammo Hung.
Lee was executive-produced the series Warrior, which based on an original idea by Bruce Lee,
debuted on Cinemax on April 5, 2019.
Lee also worked as a singer, sang a cover of "I'm in the Mood for Love" for the movie
China Strike Force and on the band Medicine's album The Mechanical Forces of Love in 2003.
Since the mid-2000s, she has focused primarily on running The Bruce Lee Foundation, and has
produced two projects about her father, "The Legend of Bruce Lee", and the documentary,
"How Bruce Lee Changed the World".
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As of 2021, Lee’s net worth is estimated to be $12 million.
In her youth, Lee studied Jeet Kune Do, with her father's disciple Richard Bustillo, but
did not practice it seriously until the late 1990s.
To train for parts in action movies, she studied Jeet Kune Do with Ted Wong.
She studied Taekwondo under Tan Tao-liang AKA "Flash Legs" and Wushu under Eric Chen.
She also studied under the tutelage of the director of Enter the Eagles, Yuen De, Jackie
Chan's Chinese opera brother.
Because the film Enter the Eagles required her to fight Benny Urquidez, Urquidez himself
taught her kickboxing.
“It was part of your heritage and another way to get to know my father, which was to
study his art, and to understand the thing that he was so passionate about as best as I could.”, said Lee.
Shannon was only 4 years old when Bruce Lee died unexpectedly.
As a result, she didn’t have many memories of him.
However, she says: “The memory that I have of him that is very clear is his presence,
what it was like to have his attention, love and focus.
While most people would probably like to tell the world they have a famous father,
Shannon doesn’t want to actively announce it, choosing to protect her privacy.
As a child, she was discouraged by her mother to brag about her father.
Linda believed it would attract unwanted attention.
It was complicated growing up because of it, but she learned how to balance everything:
"“I’ve had people hang around me because I’m Bruce Lee’s daughter, and it’s kind of a blow.
You start to ask yourself, “Who am I?”, “What’s valuable about me?”, “Is what’s
valuable about me that I’m Bruce Lee’s daughter?”.
These days, I don’t lead with the fact I’m Bruce Lee’s daughter, but I don’t hide it either.”