Leonardo Nam (born November 1979) is an Argentine-born
Australian
actor of
Korean descent.
Early life
Nam was born in
Buenos Aires,
Argentina and he is of
Korean descent. At the age of 6 he moved to
Sydney, Australia. Nam attended
Sydney Technical High School and studied
architecture at the
University of New South Wales. Nam left Sydney to follow his dreams of an acting career in
New York City at the age of 19. He studied with several acting teachers in New York, namely
Austin Pendleton and William Carden at HB Studios. His brother is a choreographer, and his sister is a teacher; they both live in the
United Kingdom.
Acting career
Before his Hollywood success, he struggled to make ends meet by working at
Lotus Bar in the
Meatpacking District of New York and acted in
Georgia Lee's Educated with
Fay Ann Lee. His breakthrough role came in his performance of Roy in
The Perfect Score (2004). He had a small role in the 2005 film
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants as Brian McBrian, a hardcore gamer. He then played a larger role in "
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2" as Tibby's boyfriend. He also made an appearance in
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) as Morimoto.
Filmography
External links
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