Shannon Emery Lee (born April 19, 1969) is an American actress, martial artist and businesswoman. She is the 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.

Biography

Shannon Lee was born on April 19, 1969 as the second child to Bruce Lee and Linda Lee Cadwell and her family lived in Hong Kong from 1971 to 1973, after which her mother moved back to the United States following the death of her father. Together, they lived in Seattle, Washington and Los Angeles. Shannon grew up in Rolling Hills, California.

Graduating from The Chadwick School in 1987, Lee then attended Tulane University in New Orleans, where she studied voice and graduated in 1991. She moved back to Los Angeles in 1993 after her brother's death to pursue acting. She married lawyer Anthony Keasler in 1994, and later gave birth to their daughter. In her youth, she studied jeet kune do, the martial art system invented by her father, under Richard Bustillo, one of her father's students. However, her serious studies didn't begin until the late 1990s. To train for parts in action movies, she studied jeet kune do with Ted Wong.

She studied taekwondo under Dung Doa Liang 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 taught her kickboxing.