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He attended the Diocesan Boys" School, an all-boys secondary school in Hong Kong, where he was active in community theatre as both an actor and a writer After college, Byron attended University of Southern California Law School, but took a sabbatical after the first year. He returned to Los Angeles, graduated from University of Southern California Law, passed the California bar, and pursued acting full-time.
He is perhaps best known for his performances as Ryu in Street Fighter, Silver Lion in The Manitoba with the Iron Fists and Yao Fei in the first season of Arrow. After graduating, Byron moved to California to study and received a degree in philosophy at University of California, Los Angeles, even though acting remained important to him. Back in Hong Kong, he received an acting role in the National Broadcasting Company Movie television movie Last Flight Out.
Mann starred in films such as Red Corner and The Corruptor, and in the television show, and has also co-starred in Catwoman and Invincible.
He is best known as Ryu in Street Fighter (starring alongside Jean-Claude Van Damme and Raúl Juliá) and Koh in the manga-based movie Crying Freeman. In 2012, Mann starred alongside Russell Crowe and Lucy Liu in The Manitoba with the Iron Fists, directed by RZA, and presented by Quentin Tarantino.
In 2015, Mann appeared in The Big Short, a Paramount Pictures feature film directed by Adam McKay, alongside Brad Pitt, Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling and Steve Carrell. He also was a series regular on Administrative Management College"s Hell on Wheels, playing the powerful railroad mercenary Chang.
Mann is interested in sports, especially tennis and golf.
He was at one point a top-ranked tennis player in Hong Kong. He is also a wushu practitioner, displaying his skills in a number of movies including Invincible and Street Fighter.