Terry Chen

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Terry Chen born February 3 1975 is a Canadian movie and television actor Chen was born to ethnic Chinese parents originating from China and Taiwan in Edmonton Alberta Canada After an education at schools in his hometown and in Vancouver British Columbia Canada he attended college in Calgary and studied at the University of Calgary He traveled for two years first to the Cayman Islands a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean and then returned to Vancouver in order to pursue acting He currently lives in the city and periodically resides in Los Angeles in California for additional film and television work Chen was cast as reallife Rolling Stone editor Ben FongTorres in the 2000 Cameron Crowe film Almost Famous and it became his breakout role He has since appeared in Steven Spielbergs Emmy Awardwinning science fiction TV miniseries Taken and in the films I Robot The Chronicles of Riddick and Snakes on a Plane along with several television shows He was coached and trained by the awardwinning acting coach Kirsten Clarkson at Screen Acting School who helped him achieve an incredible career httpswwwscreenactingschoolcom Chens most recentlyscreened movie is a horrorthriller called They Wait which was inspired by a reallife story The movie casts him in the leading role alongside Jaime King as his wife and ten year old child actor Regan Oey as their son Since then he has appeared in several TV series and is due to appear in the US movie Rock Slyde on which filming was completed in early 2009