Justin Jung is a 36-year-old American actor of Korean descent, best known for his role as Eric Yorkie in the Twilight movie saga.
early years
Justin Chung was born and raised in California. His mother is a pianist and a housewife. His father, Sun, worked in show business, was an actor in South Korea and often appeared in black and white films. As a child, Jung often watched his father’s films, which inspired him to start an acting career.
Jung was educated in his hometown of Irvine, where he played the saxophone in a school orchestra, after which he entered the University of Southern California at Los Angeles and earned a master's degree in business administration. As part of the course, it was compulsory to study a foreign language, and therefore he began to learn Japanese, and later switched to Korean (his mother’s native language). To improve his language skills, Chong spent some time in South Korea as part of a university study abroad program. For the first semester, he lived in a hostel at Yonsei University in Seoul.
Actor career
In films, Justin Chung began appearing in 2005. His first roles were in such series as Jack and Bobby and Taki and Lucy. Fame came to him in 2006, when he played the role of Peter Wu in the Disney movie "Wendy Wu: The Queen in Battle." He also played Tony Lee on Nickelodeon's Just Jordan sitcom. In 2008, Chung played the role of Eric Yorkie in the movie Twilight, based on the book by Stephanie Meyer, as well as in the sequels of this film. He appeared as the main character, Jeff Chang, in the movie "21 and more", then followed by a role in the independent film "Innocent Blood." In 2014, Chung starred in Martin Scorsese’s crime drama, The Dragons of New York. In 2015, she again played a role in independent cinema: Jung played a troubled teenager in Benson Lee’s film “Finding Seoul, ” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
