Jean-Paul Ly

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Jean-Paul Ly

Jean-Paul Ly is an award-winning stunt and action actor based in London, with Chinese and Cambodian heritage. He is also a critically acclaimed action designer, best known for his work on Jailbreak—winner of Best Action Feature at the 2017 Fantasia Film Festival—and the British action-comedy Nightshooters, which earned a Best UK Feature nomination at the 2018 Raindance Film Festival. Ly made his directorial debut with the 23-minute action short The Division.

Acting credits

Artemis Fowl poster
5.5

Artemis Fowl is a 12-year-old genius and descendant of a long line of criminal masterminds. He soon finds himself in an epic battle against a race of powerful underground fairies who may be behind his father's disappearance.

Artemis Fowl

2020

Jailbreak poster
5.7

What started as a simple escort mission will soon turn to chaos as the prisoners of Koh Kla take over the prison grounds. A special task force gets trapped in the prison will have to fight their way out for survival, to protect a key witness.

Jailbreak

2017

I Am Vengeance: Retaliation poster
5.8

A former special-forces soldier is given the opportunity to bring the man who betrayed his team on their final mission in Eastern Europe several years ago - to justice.

I Am Vengeance: Retaliation

2020

The Division poster
NR

Set throughout the course of one day in London, Jake and Lance, members of the extreme special forces unit 'The Division’, strive to save the city from terrorist attacks in a race against time.

The Division

2018

Viking Siege poster
5.0

During a wild night of debauchery, a gang of vengeful women plot to massacre a monastery full of corrupt monks who sold their loved ones as slaves. Their plan comes unstuck when a gang of marauding Vikings arrive with an army of vicious, tree-like demons on their tail..

Viking Siege

2017

Nightshooters poster
5.9

A film crew led by stuntman Donnie come to witness a Gangland hit, and have to fight for their lives to survive the night.

Nightshooters

2018

Real Men poster
5.8

An investigation into the myth of the screen hero and its importance to men, mainly in the Western world. How the professional image is built in Hollywood, how men search for their own identity and how the self is constantly analyzed and compared to the role models appearing on the screen.

Real Men

2019

RIFT poster
NR

A nihilistic police officer goes to extreme measures to protect a young boy who has the ability to tap into multi-dimensions across space and time.

RIFT

2018

The Take Down poster
4.6

When Jack, a hit man from London, gets given his life back and the opportunity to save his daughter, it becomes a race against time to kill or be killed.

The Take Down

2019

400 Bullets poster
7.0

One cold winter night in Afghanistan is about to get a whole lot worse for Rana Rae, a Gurkha soldier left to guard a British military outpost, when Captain Noah Brandt arrives looking for refuge from a group of rogue special ops and a cell of heavily armed Taliban. The two soldiers must fight for their lives as they attempt to call for backup before the rogue squad, led by the backstabbing Sergeant Bartlett, can hunt them down to retrieve a case of missile guidance chips that Noah intercepted. But Bartlett and his men do not count on Rana, whose ferocious Gurkha training makes him a force to be reckoned with.

400 Bullets

2021

Acéré poster
7.0

A man on the run. A villain with a knife. A fight to the death.

Acéré

2021

Gatwick Gangsters poster
NR

Shampagne borrowed £100 Million from the London mob but a crook stole it. Things get worse for the mob boss of Gatwick after robberies and bank heists go bad. And there's a bomb, too...

Gatwick Gangsters

2017

Behind the camera