Lewis Tan

Lewis Singwah Tan is a British and American actor, martial artist, and model. He is known for playing a variety of roles across film and television, including Cole Young in Mortal Kombat, Shatterstar in Deadpool 2 and Deadpool & Wolverine, Tolya in Shadow and Bone, Feng Xiao/Sensei Wolf in Cobra Kai, and Lu Xin Lee in Wu Assassins. He is also known for performing his own stunts, drawing on martial arts styles such as Muay Thai, Kung Fu, Ju-Jitsu, and Japanese katana swordplay.

Tan was born in Salford, Greater Manchester, on February 4, 1987, as the eldest of four sons to Joanne Cassidy, an English retired fashion model, and Philip Tan, a Chinese Singaporean martial artist, actor, and stunt coordinator. His father trained him in martial arts from an early age. When Tan was one year old, his family relocated from England to Los Angeles after his father was hired as a fight coordinator for the 1989 film Batman. During his youth, Tan also lived in China, France, and Spain, and he began training in theatre in his early teens. His three brothers also work in creative fields as an actor, a director, and a photographer.

Early in his acting career, Tan appeared in small supporting film roles in projects such as Olympus Has Fallen and The Hangover Part III. His early television work included appearances on series such as CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, NCIS: Los Angeles, Hawaii Five-0, 24, and Rush Hour. He was also recruited by action director Garrett Warren to film as Kung Jin for the unreleased web series Mortal Kombat X: Generations.

Tan gained wider visibility with notable television and film roles beginning in 2016, when he was cast as Zhou Cheng in a guest role on the first season of the Netflix series Iron Fist and joined the cast of the action film Den of Thieves. In 2018, he played Shatterstar in the superhero film Deadpool 2, portrayed Gaius Chau in the third season of Into the Badlands, and was cast as a series regular named Lu Xin Lee on the Netflix crime drama Wu Assassins. He later reprised his Wu Assassins role in the 2022 sequel film Fistful of Vengeance.

In August 2019, Tan was cast as Cole Young in the Mortal Kombat reboot film, which released in April 2021, and he later reprised his role in Mortal Kombat II. Following this, he was cast as CIA officer Harris Chang in a television adaptation of David Ignatius's thriller novel The Quantum Spy, starred alongside Emma Roberts in the romantic comedy About Fate, and joined the second season of Netflix's Shadow and Bone as Tolya Yul-Bataar. In 2024, Tan joined the sixth season of Cobra Kai as a rival sensei.