Chris Lyon is best known for his role in the Netflix distributed Korean series Itaewon Class where he plays the black-Korean biracial character Tony Kim. He was born and raised in Hartford, Connecticut before later moving to Orlando, Florida. He started his acting career in 2016 with the short film Live Club Greyhound. It was later turned into a feature length film under the name of Live Hard which went on to win the Audience Award at Bucheon International Film Festival in 2018. The next year he played a supporting role in the Miss and Mrs. Cops, a film rose to the top of the Korean box office in domestic films. In 2020, he acquired a principal role in the series Itaewon Class which sat at #1 in a number of countries across Asia for a few months after its release on Netflix.