Bandon Lee Gay Porn Star Biography
Brandon Lee is the stage name of a gay Asian American pornographic actor. He took his stage name from Brandon Lee, the deceased son of martial arts actor Bruce Lee. Brandon Lee, however, is of Chinese-Filipino descent. Lee also performed under the name Sean Martinez early in his career. He is noted as being the first major Asian porn actor to be honored by the western mainstream adult film industry.
He was introduced to the porn industry by porn movie director Chi Chi LaRue, who first met him at a Los Angeles gay bath house. LaRue introduced Lee to Catalina Video, a film studio that signed him to a contract. Lee was only 18 when he began performing in adult films. His debut video was Asian Persuasion. Although LaRue did not make any adult films with him initially, LaRue eventually directed him in Fortune Nookie.
Brandon Lee made seven videos for Catalina Video between 1997 and 1998, then, left the adult business in order to enlist in the military. In 2005, Lee returned to adult films and was signed a contract with Rascal Video. He was in six movies for the company and starred in "Wicked" where he takes the bottom role for the first time on adult video.
In 2006, he left the industry and eventually had gone to pursue a career as a chef where he lives, in Long Beach,California. In 2010, he returned to the industry starring in his first movie since 2005, "Affirmative Blacktion."
An analysis of Lee's work and his place in the gay porn industry, written by Nguyen Tan Hoang, appeared in a book called Porn Studies (Linda Williams, Duke University Press). The essay is entitled "The Resurrection of Brandon Lee: The Making of a Gay Asian-American Porn Star" and has been widely praised for it's discussion of Brandon's influence on Asians in the mainstream gay porn.
Fun Fact
Lee also wrote musical scores for porn movies.
