Short Biography

Place of Birth: Oakland, California (East Oakland Hospital) He weighed 8Lbs, 11oz., had blond hair and grey eyes! His father used to say: "He is the only blond haired, grey eyed Chinaman in the world!"

Place of death: Wilmington, North Carolina, while filming "The Crow". In Hannover Regional Medical Centre, at 1:04 pm. He was buried on April 3rd, next to his father in Lakeview Cemetary, Capitol Hill, Seattle. The memorial service took place at Polly Bergen`s house.

Parents: Linda Lee Emery (Cadwell) & Bruce Lee (Jun Fan Bruce Lee)
Siblings: Shannon Lee Keasler (born April 19, 1969)
Fiancée: Eliza Hutton. They were to be married April 17, 1993 in Mexico. Brandon died only 17 days before it was to take place.

Education: La Salle School in Hong Kong (same as his father), Chadwick School, Palos Verdes, Miraleste High School, Emerson College in Massachusetts, Lee Strasberg Academy, Eric Morris class in New York, Lynette Katselas actors class in L.A.





BIOGRAPHY

Born on February 1st, 1965 in Oakland California, Lee spend his early years in Hong Kong, where he learned Cantonese and studied the martial art of Jeet Kun Do. He was only eight when his father died suddenly of a brain edema, and his mother moved Lee and his younger sister Shannon back to the States. They settled first in Seattle and then in Rolling Hills, CA, where Lee acquired the reputation of a troubled, wild child. He dropped out of high school twice, and was expelled from the private Chadwick School in Palos Verdes only months before graduation. After finally receiving his diploma from Miraleste High School, he studied drama at Boston`s Emerson College and commuted to New York for private acting lessons at the Lee Stransberg Institute.
In 1985, after getting his feet wet in several off-Broadway plays, Lee moved to Hollywood. He worked as a script reader before landing a role in the television film Kung Fu: The Movie in 1986 with David Carradine. Lee then returned to Hong Kong the following year to appear in the Cantonese film Legacy of Rage. Starring roles opposite Ernest Borgnine in Laser Mission (1990) and Dolph Lundgren in Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991) soon followed. His next U.S. vehicle, 1992`s Rapid Fire, had audiences on their feet with its nonstop fighting sequences (which Lee choreographed himself).
Thus, the actor was poised for true stardom when he landed the lead in director Alex Proyas` The Crow. It was his dream project: an adaptation of James O`Barr`s graphic novel. The film promised to combine Lee`s captivating stunts with a brooding gothic atmosphere and a tight revenge-driven story line. He was shooting his character`s death scene on location in Wilmington, NC, when an improperly cleaned prop gun fired a dummy tip into his mid-section. The tip tore through Lee`s abdomen and lodged in his spine. After loosing a considerable amount of blood, he died on the operating table at New Hanover Regional Medical Center at 1:04pm on March 31st, 1993.
Lee, who had planned to marry his longtime girlfriend that April, was laid to rest next to his father at Lakeview Cemetary in Seattle. His friend Polly Bergen held a memorial service for Lee at her California home. Over 400 people showed up to pay their respects to the young actor, including Kiefer Sutherland, Steven Seagal, David Carradine and David Hasselhoff. After much deliberation, Proyas and his produ

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