Leon Ung

Leon Ung is a 14 year old award winning British actor, stunt performer, model, dancer & gymnast from London, UK. He is of mixed origin (Cambodian/Indian).

As a solo act, Leon wowed the judges and live audience on Britain’s Got Talent (2024) receiving 4 incredible yes’s!!

Leon Ung is known for his role as “Nas” in the OSCAR winning short, The Long Goodbye (Best Live Action Short 2022) by Riz Ahmed.

Leon’s recent projects include Disney’s live-action movie Snow White (2025); Bollywood film, Animal as the young lead (2023); Netflix’s Matilda the movie (2022) starring as classmate & ensemble, and as the lead in several shorts, including Somewhere Very Near (2024) and The Stranger I Love (2023).

As of 2022, Leon started working with the Refugee Council charity. His campaign film with The Guardian (2024) raised £1.42M for charity and was shown at the Earl’s Court International Film Festival (2024) & Glastonbury Festival.

As well as filmography, Leon starred in the LIDL Christmas Wish commercial/short film (2024) by Academy Award winning director, Tom Hooper; He featured in Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Freedom of the Night” music video (2024); He choreographed a performance as a ‘Metahuman’ for the Global A.I Generative Conference (2023); Leon modelled for Marks & Spencer (2024), JD Sports (2024) and Pangaia (2023) and starred as the lead in various commercials including the mobile network brand EE (2023, 2024); British Gas alongside Tom Daley (2024); National Crime Agency educational video (2023); Smyth’s Disney Marvel as Spider-Man and Black Panther (2022); A YouTube presenter for Lubaina Himid’s Tate Gallery exhibition (2022); Heinz Baked Beans as a Drummer (2019) and Sainsbury’s Christmas commercial as a breakdancer directed by Michael Gracey (2018).

Leon is a top UK National Breakdancer (currently ranked 2nd in the whole of UK) and on the pathway to representing Team GB at the Youth Olympics (Senegal 2026). He became a Triple Champ Winner at the UK StreetDance Championships, winning 1st in all the Breaking categories: Adults, U16 & Kids.

He has an athletic body frame and enjoys basketball, football, calisthenics and martial arts (Kung-Fu & Jiu Jitsu) with weapon training. He has achieved Grade 3 in drums and is also competent at playing the piano.