Keone Young

Keone J. Young (born September 6, 1947) is an American character actor. His father is Chinese and his mother is Japanese.

He has been prolific in his character work and has made numerous guest appearances on such varied television series as Diff'rent Strokes, the Golden Girls, Murphy Brown, Mad About You, Family Matters, the Simpsons, Alias, JAG, the Steve Harvey Show, Disney's Zeke and Luther, Shake It Up: Made In Japan, and on the daytime soap operas the Young and the Restless and Generations.

Young played Dr. Michael Kwan on the short-lived multi-ethnic medical drama Kay O'Brien, which aired in the fall of 1986 on CBS. Despite the fact that the network had high hopes for the series, just 9 of 13 episodes were aired. He was also a semi-regular on the HBO series Deadwood as Mr. Wu. He also played Mr. Wu, unrelated to the Deadwood character, in the movie Men in Black 3. He also played the roll of Ellison Onizuka In the TV film Challenger (1990 film).

Young has many voice-over credits as well: Grandpa in Disney's American Dragon: Jake Long, Kaz in Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, Mr. Sanban in Codename: Kids Next Door, the Firebending master Jeong Jeong in the Asian-influenced Avatar: the Last Airbender, Storm Shadow in the Sunbow G.I. Joe animated series, the Hard Master in G.I. Joe: Renegades, Mr. Wu on Nickelodeon's show the Mighty B!, Marshall Kai Ti Chang in Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb, Silver Samurai in X-Men: the Official Game and Wolverine and the X-Men, and Chen Stormstout in Blizzard's World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria expansion.

Young also has several Star Trek links: He played Buck Bokai, a famous baseball player in the 24th century in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "If Wishes Were Horses". He also played Hoshi Sato's father in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Vanishing Point". Young appeared as Governor Ho in the movie North starring Elijah Wood.

In theatre, Young has had a long history with the Asian American theatre company, East West Players, in Los Angeles, where he not only performed but often served as producer. He voiced Lord Chin in Disney's Mulan II.

In 2013, Young joined the cast of HBO's True Blood as Dr. Hido Takahashi, the man responsible for inventing the titular blood substitute, and he voiced Shingen Yashida and the Less Impressive Super Hero Lairs Announcer in MAD Season 4, Episode 23 (101): Dullverine / Under the Dumb.