Graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, class of 1994.
Rick is of Korean descent, & prior to acting, had also worked as a stock broker & a model.
Dating Lisa Ling (co-host of "The View"). [2001]
Qualified for the Olympic Trials in Tae Kwon Do when he was 19.
Changed the spelling of his last name from "Yun" to "Yune" for Screen Actors Guild (SAG) purposes.
Graduated from Wharton School of Business in Philadelphia.
Brother of actor Karl Yune.
Rick Yune Detailed Biography
Rick Yune is a first-generation American; his parents came to the United States from Korea in 1972. He was born in Washington, DC ,and educated at the Wharton School of Business.
To raise cash for his studies, Rick tried several jobs and was persuaded to become a photographic model in his spare time. The modeling work escalated to such an extent that it became his principal source of income during his education years. Working with photographer Bruce Weber, he was the first Asian-American model to work for leading companies such as Versace and Polo Sport. He also filmed a commercial with Cindy Crawford.
His plan at the time was to go into finance, and after college he served for a time as a trader with an investment bank, handling millions of dollars every day. As much as he enjoyed the cut and thrust of international finance, however, it was never his intention of spending his entire life as a trader.
Maintaining contact with his model agency, Rick was asked to meet movie director Scott Hicks, who was about to make a film called Snow Falling on Cedars. Rick made his motion picture debut with that film in 1999. He went on to appear in The Fast and the Furious and The Fence before joining the cast of Die Another Day this year.
A keen athlete, Rick qualified for the Olympic Trials in Tae Kwon Do (a Korean martial art) when he was 19. He changed his last name from Yun to Yune for the Screen Actors Guild when he joined the acting profession.
