Shannon Emery Lee, also known as Shan Shan, is an American singer, actress, producer and entrepreneur. She is better known as the daughter of the renowned martial arts fighter and film star, Bruce Lee and his wife Linda Lee. She was four years old when her father died and her mother moved from Hong Kong to the USA. She was brought up in California with her brother Brandon Lee, who also later died in an accident while shooting for a film. 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 Emery Lee, also known as Sean Sean, is an American singer, actress, producer and
entrepreneur. She is better known as the daughter of the renowned martial arts fighter and film star,
Bruce Lee and his wife Linda Lee. She was 4 years old when her father died and her
mother moved from Hong Kong to the USA. She was brought up in California with her brother
Brandon Lee, who also later died in an accident while shooting for a film.
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 endeavors 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 was born on April 19, 1969, at UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica in Santa Monica,
California. She is the youngest child and only daughter of martial arts film
star Bruce Lee and Linda Emery. In her youth she studied Jeet Kune Do,
the martial art created by her father, under Richard Bustillo, one of her father's students.
In 1993, Lee played a party singer in her father's biopic Dragon,
The Bruce Lee Story. In 1994, she acted in Cage 2.
In 1997, Lee acted in High Voltage. In 1998, Lee acted in the Hong Kong action film Enter
the Eagles, directed by Corey Yuen, co-starring Michael Wong and Anita Yuen.
In the film, Lee had a fight scene with Benny Urquidez, who went on to teach her kickboxing.
On television, she guest-starred in an episode of the television series
Martial Law alongside Sammo Hung. In 2000, Lee sang a cover of
I'm in the Mood for Love, for the film China Strikeforce directed by Stanley Tong.
Lee appeared in the sci-fi television film Epic, which first aired on the Sci-Fi Channel in 2001.
That same year, she played the leading role in the action film Lessons for an Assassin.
She was also the host of the first season of the game show W.M.A.C. Masters.
Lee sang on the band Medicine's album The Mechanical Forces of Love in 2003.
Citation needed. Lee is president of the Bruce Lee Foundation.
She was the executive producer of the 2008 television series The Legend of Bruce Lee,
based on her father's life, and the 2009 documentary film How Bruce Lee Changed the World.
In 2015, Perfect Storm Entertainment and Shannon Lee announced that the series Warrior,
based on an original idea by Bruce Lee, would be produced and air on Cinemax.
Filmmaker Justin Lin was chosen to direct the series, which debuted April 5, 2019.
Lee's husband is Ian Kiesler. They share a daughter named Ren.
Lee is the daughter of Bruce Lee, granddaughter of Lee Hoi Chuan and Grace Ho,
sister of Brandon Lee, and niece of Robert Lee Jun-Fai and Peter Lee Young-Sum.
Citation needed. Lee's paternal great-grandfather was Ho Kam Tong,
half-brother of Robert Ho-Tong. Her career on television includes a guest appearance in one
of the episodes of Martial Law, with Sammo Hung in 1998 and an appearance in the telefilm,
Epic, which was broadcast on the Syfy channel in 2001.
She also hosted the first season of W.M.A.C. Masters that features choreographed martial
arts fights on television. Her own training in martial arts gave her the confidence to host the
show. She also sang for the American noise pop band, Medicine's album titled, The Mechanical
Forces of Love, in 2003 and the number, I'm in the Mood for Love, for the film, China Strike Force.
She has made a number of other musical performances during her checkered career.
She was instrumental in establishing the Bruce Lee Foundation in 2002 to promote her father's
legacy. The family's rights to her father's franchisee were handed over to establish the
Bruce Lee Enterprises, of which she is the CEO. This is an agency that licenses anything that is
linked to the name of Bruce Lee. With her perseverance, the foundation raised $35 million
to build the Bruce Lee Action Museum in Seattle, USA. Shannon Lee has proved to be a shrewd
businesswoman and entrepreneur. There have been numerous challenges in her life which she has
fought using her father's philosophy to come out an ultimate winner.
