Keone Young

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Template:Quote box 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.