About John Lone
John Lone (Chinese: 尊龍; Jyutping: zyun1 lung4; pinyin: Zūn Lóng; born October 13, 1952) is a Chinese-American retired actor. He starred as Puyi in the Academy Award-winning film The Last Emperor (1987), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. A veteran of the East West Players, he appeared in numerous high-profile screen and stage roles throughout the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s, in films like Iceman, Year of the Dragon, M. Butterfly, The Shadow, and Rush Hour 2. He was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his performance in The Moderns. Lone was with the East West Players, an Asian-American theatre organization, for 10 years before Mako offered him a role as an Asian emigrant trying to assimilate in David Henry Hwang's first play FOB. Bertolucci met Lone while casting in Los Angeles and chose him as Puyi at first sight. His first major role in films was as the title character in Iceman.
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