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}}'''Sean Charles Lew''' (born on November 25, 2001 in Walnut, California, U.S.) is a young multi-talented professional dancer, celebrity choreographer, dance teacher, TV junior chef, actor, editor, creative and film director, producer, model and a philanthropist, pianist and singer with Chinese, Japanese and  Mongolian roots living in Los Angeles, California.

He started dancing when he was able to walk as got inspired by his two older sisters Sarah and Sirris, who used to be competition dancers as well, by watching them featuring on competing videos, <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cputGwfEFW4 Get to Know: Sean Lew]</ref> took his first dance classes when he was four and started competing at the age of five. He got his first professional gig as dancer when he was eight years old on the ''Glee'' show. He won on Dance-Off Juniors season one episode eight, competed on season one of ''NBC's World of Dance'' as member of ImmaBEAST and on season two with his partner [[Kaycee Rice]] as Sean & Kaycee. After that show Sean turned into a viral social media star as well and attracts with videos millions of views. As dancer he appeared on many TV shows, such as, on ''Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards'' 2012 and 2014, on ''Dancing with the Stars'' 2013 and ''The X-Factor'' together with Carly Rose Sonenclar at the finals in 2012. He was also interview guest concerning dance on ''NBC morning news'', ''KTLA5 news'' and ''LA TV - The Zoo''. He appeared on Sia's music short film video "The Greatest" with [[Maddie Ziegler]]. He performed with Chris Brown and Kris Wu. He later went on to dance for Janet Jackson on her Unbreakable World Tour in 2015.

In 2019, Sean choreographed a music video for mega-star [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meghan_Trainor Meghan Trainor] "''AFTER YOU (Directed by Charm La'Donna)"'' on Vevo-YT with just 17 years old and is starring with Kaycee on it as duet. Meghan was actually a secret fan of Sean for many years and they finally met at October 31, 2019. He started in April a crowd funding project for his new short film of dancing cultures worldwide with planned budget $65,000 USD, but the subject changed later and he didn't get raised the target budget. He was nominated for a Arena Award in the category "Rising Star of the year" together with Emma Portner, Logan Edra and the winner [[Bailey Sok]]. He was performing the NBC World of Dance World Final intermezzo show on season three together with [[Kaycee Rice]] and Ian Eastwood while NE-YO was singing on stage. They got the honor to be in line with dance legends like Les Twins, Keone & Mari Madrid, Derek Hough, The Kinjaz, The Lab, Charity Anderson & Andres Peñate<strong> </strong>and Michael Dameski. Finally the ''Step Up: Year of the Dance '' (aka ''Step Up China or Step Up 6) ''movie was released. Sean was assistant choreographer for it along with William "Willdabeast" Adams, Janelle Ginestra-Adams and Jaken Isaiah Preston, featuring Jade Cynoweth and Janelle Ginestra-Adams and Wei Qi and SuperDino are starring. It is currently with about $17,000,000 USD estimated budget Sean's biggest project he participated in. <ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4060544/ Step Up China]</ref> A convention dance video with Kaycee to the song "False Confidence" by Noah Kahan went viral by 5M+ views within just one month and got Noah's personal attention and the adorable Australian invited them to perfom in LA live on stage with him.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fr7D5BMLk0 False Confidence: Live l Xtra Sean & Kaycee]</ref> When Sean turned 18 he celebrated it in Iceland at Reykjavík with his family and Kaycee <ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/B5boFavlUI2/ Sean's IG Iceland]</ref> Before became an adult he already visited many countries in the world. In this year it was at least China, Dominican Republic, Poland, Japan, Iceland and Denmark. Not many people can claim to be a world citizen at his age.

In 2021, on Feb 27th he released his [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uQLDRlp0xI "II: AN UNSPOKEN NARRATIVE" - The Short Film]" and broke some rare records. The "short film" has about an hour length, had 285.000 views in four days and got about 38,000 likes by just 51! dislikes (about 745:1) and broke his own record of False Confidence by 220:1 on about 28M+ views at that time, which is for a Youtube video with that many hits extremely rare. In the film are starring some of best industry dancers in the world. The full cast - himself, [[Kaycee Rice]], Tre De Rego, Kea Peahu, Destinee Mayarea, Hiro Homura, Giselle Silva, Jaime Mora, Isaac Meija, Leilani Zepeda, Ava Chavarria, [[Bailey Sok]], [[Julian DeGuzman]], Stephanie Mincone, Connor Gormley, Shannon Kelly, Zack Everheart, Marie Spieldenner, Zach Venegas, Anthony Westlake, Matthew Kubitz, Emma Hauser, Ashlynn Malia, Leconte Banks and Jazz Smith. Director of Photography/Gimbal Operator are Gerald Nonato und Nick Kim. Unit Still Photographers are Lee Gumbs and Chad Brady. Choreography by Sean Lew, Tessandra Chavez and Benji Schwimmer. It is featuring also some spiritual locations like the tree house at the end. <i>DanceSpirit</i> was headlining after an interview: "Sean Lew's New Film is Bound to Leave You Speechless" <ref>[https://www.dancespirit.com/sean-lew-two-the-film-2650727837.html?rebelltitem=3#rebelltitem3 Sean Lew's New Film is Bound to Leave You Speechless]</ref>. How he gets it done with the low budget?! Because most of crew and cast are friends and he had some family support. The film won a New York’s Oniro Film Award in the category "Best Dance Choreography" in March and was already introduced on two short film festivals in Venice and Montreal in 2020. He delivered with 19, four years later after he had the idea and adds on his calling card producer, script writer and director now. Shortly afterward he signed for crime, drama and thriller series "The Cleaning Lady" as Chris. The first season premiered at Sep 9th, 2021 on FOX with international releases.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11188682/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_1 The Cleaning Lady]</ref> Sean got regular in first season. Not bad for someone who thought once his acting is embarassing. In Juny he has taught his first dance class at the Millennium Dance Complex LA. <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RJ_rixDWpo Cold War - Cautious Clay l Sean Lew Choreography l 2021]</ref> Insane, but when most of his fellow pro dancers properly celebrating their first teaching class at the "most iconic dance studio in the world" as an important milestone of their careers, for Sean it feels just natural; not worth mentioning. On Dec 13, Sean & Kaycee attended  the  ''[https://worldchoreographyawards.com/ The World Choreography Adwards] 2021'', the "Oscars of Dance". They were nominated in the category ''Digital Content'' twice for their Disney Channel dance videos - ''Party in the USA'' and '' Don't Start Now''.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CV5v7nyPDeJ/ Nominees 2021 Digital Content]</ref><ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CXDPpFhF4aO/ Don't Start Now Clip]</ref>