Keone Young was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. As an actor, he was included in shows like Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Enterprise. At present he is the voice of several cartoon characters like Grandpa in American Dragon: Jake Long, Kaz in Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi and Jeong Jeong in Avatar: The Last Airbender, and is also part of the television series Deadwood as Mr. Wu. Mr. Wu appears to lead Deadwood's Chinese crowd. He hardly knows or speaks any English words other than "cocksucka". In addition, he has been tasked by Al to recruit Chinese laborers in San Francisco to work in Hearst's mines.