Ken Leung was raised in the Two Bridges section of the Lower East Side in New York. His family moved to Midwood, Brooklyn where he grew up before finishing high school in Old Bridge, NJ. He attended NYU as a University Scholar and studied acting with Catherine Russell and Nan Smithner, then briefly with Anne Jackson at HB Studio. He acted mostly in downtown spaces and black boxes, finding artistic homes with groups such as Ma-Yi, New Perspectives, and STAR, a traveling group of actors-educators based in Mt Sinai Hospital. In 1997, Brett Ratner cast him in Rush Hour. Edward Norton cast him in his directorial debut, Keeping the Faith. Since then he has appeared in several independent and tv films, as well as features, including four films with Ratner and two with Spike Lee. In 1998, he played James the Less and God in Terrence McNally's passion play, Corpus Christi, and in 2002 made his Broadway debut in the Tony Award winning musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie.
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