Rick Yune Biography

Fast Facts

• Voted as the sexiest villain in the 2002 "People" magazine's sexiest man issue
• Graduated with an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania
• Worked as a hedge fund trader on Wall Street before getting into acting
• Quote: "(On his first commercial) "I filmed my first commercial in 1994 with Cindy Crawford․ It was a European pasta commercial․ I played a karaoke-singing gangster trying to pick her up․""
• Added an "e" to his legal last name, changing it from Yun to Yune, for Screen Actors Guild purposes
• Reached the Olympic standard in Taekwondo and was a serious contender for the US National team by the time he was 19
• Was the first Asian model for Versace and Ralph Lauren's Polo while attending college