Actor
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.
Notable work
Often works with
Laurent Plancel
4 titles together
Jailbreak, Speed Dating, Acéré
Phoebe Robinson-Galvin
3 titles together
I Am Vengeance: Retaliation, Speed Dating, The Division
Andrew-Lee Potts
2 titles together
400 Bullets, Misfire
Katrina Durden
2 titles together
I Am Vengeance: Retaliation, The Take Down
Mark Sears
2 titles together
I Am Vengeance: Retaliation, Gatwick Gangsters
Craig Russell
2 titles together
Viking Siege, Nightshooters
Full filmography · 15
Misfire
Director and Writer
2025
Coldplay: A Film for the Future
Director
2025
Speed Dating
Director and Writer
2022
Acéré
as Protagonist
2021
400 Bullets
as Rana Rae
20217
Artemis Fowl
as Nguyen Xuan (uncredited)
20205.5
I Am Vengeance: Retaliation
as Kelso
20205.8
The Take Down
as Chan
2019
RIFT
cast
2018
Nightshooters
as Donnie
2018
The Division
as Jake and Director and Writer
2018
Viking Siege
as The Rat
2017