Biography

Joohun Lee is a Korean-American doctor turned actor/writer from New Jersey. After an adolescence spent as a nationally ranked USTA tennis player, he graduated magna cum laude from NYU as a pre-med. He then spent a year in Honduras researching dengue virus through a Fulbright Scholarship. He went on to receive an M.D. from Johns Hopkins while exploring his passion for storytelling.

His first feature, Transplant, was selected as part of the 2020 Sundance Screenwriters Intensive and was produced by Forest Whitaker and Endeavor Content. His second feature, I Hold It True, placed as one of 25 finalists out of 1500 entrants in the ScreenCraft Sci-Fi Competition. He's worked as the principal actor in multiple national commercials and the lead actor in an upcoming feature film by Laramie Dennis. He also teaches the MCAT to keep up his scientific foundation. His goal is to build a production company that creates stories based in science and medicine.

- IMDb mini biography by: Cecilia Kim