Born in Hong Kong and raised there and in the Los Angeles area, Byron Mann first came to the attention of US audiences with an appearance as a gifted student interviewed by "Murphy Brown" in 1993. The following year, the handsome actor appeared as a fist-flinging hustler opposite Jean-Claude Van Damme in "Street Fighter" (1994) and in two direct-to-video releases, Fred Olen Ray's "Possessed by the Night" and "Deadly Target/Fire Zone". Mann went on to appear an aristocratic killer alongside Rae Dawn Chong in "Crying Freeman" (1996). He has also made appearances on the syndicated series "Time