Keone Young

Personal context

Summary

Keone Young is an American actor whose long career spans television, film, theater, and voice work, including Deadwood, The Young and the Restless, and American Dragon: Jake Long. He has been closely involved with East West Players, the Asian American theater company, as an actor and producer. Young has spoken about challenging stereotypes that portrayed Asian American men as submissive or effeminate, and an early account records that he left a production over its inaccurate portrayal of Japanese Americans in wartime. No public statements on party politics, DEI, or LGBTQ advocacy are on record.