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Justin Lin

1971-10-11 (53 years old) in Taipei, Taiwan

Justin Lin is a Taiwanese-American film director whose films have grossed $2 billion worldwide. He is best known for his work on Better Luck Tomorrow (2002), The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006), Fast & Furious (2009), Fast Five (2011), Fast & Furious 6 (2013), F9 (2021), and Star Trek Beyond (2016). He is also known for his work on television shows like Community and the second season of True Detective. Lin was born in Taipei, Taiwan, and grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Cypress, California, in Orange County. He attended Cypress High School and University of California, San Diego for two years before transferring to UCLA, where he earned a B.A. in Film & Television and a MFA in Film Directing & Production from the UCLA film school.

Movies

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50 Years of Star Trek
66 %|Aug 14, 2016
Documentary
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Hollywood Chinese
0 %|Mar 18, 2007
Documentary, History
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Masters of the Pillow
0 %|Nov 4, 2003
Documentary
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Better Luck Tomorrow
64 %|Jan 12, 2002
Crime, Drama

Series

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Geeking Out
53 %|Jul 24, 2016
Comedy, Talk
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
66 %|Sep 8, 2015
Comedy, Talk
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CBS News Sunday Morning
62 %|Jan 28, 1979
News