Keone Young is a character actor from Honolulu, Hawaii. His father is Chinese, his mother is Japanese. He has guest starred in many TV shows, and is a semi-regular on the HBO series
Deadwood as Mr. Wu.
Young is also notable for voicing Grandpa in
American Dragon Jake Long and Kaz in
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi. He has also voiced Mr. Sanban in
Codename: Kids Next Door and the firebending master "Jeong Jeong, The Deserter" in an episode of the Asian-influenced
Avatar: The Last Airbender.
He played Buck Bokai, a famous baseball player by the 24th century, in the
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "If Wishes Were Horses". He also played Hoshi Sato's father in the
Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Vanishing Point". In
Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo, he voices the villain Commander Uehara Daizo, Saico-Tek, and other voices.
Speaking Japanese and Cantonese fluently, he is responsible for teaching
Grey DeLisle Japanese, alongside
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi co-star
Janice Kawaye.