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Chen Tian Wen
Singapore
Chen was educated at the now defunct Serangoon Garden Secondary Technical School. He joined the SBC after completing the 5th artiste drama training class and made his debut in 198…
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Chen was educated at the now defunct Serangoon Garden Secondary Technical School. He joined the SBC after completing the 5th artiste drama training class and made his debut in 1984. He holds a black belt in taekwondo and his martial arts background led him to being cast in many wuxia dramas in the 1990s and as characters with fight scenes in other drama series. He is also a member of the Singapore Celebrity Soccer Team. The Straits Times remarked that Chen's "much-praised understated turn" in the Cannes Film Festival award-winning Ilo Ilo put him in the spotlight once again. Chen hit the headlines again when two parody music videos he starred in, went viral. The first, titled "Unbelievable", was 'lauded' for the nonsensical line 'I so stunned like vegetable' (sic), drawing the attention of TIME, while the second, "Sandcastle in My Heart", in which Irene Ang also starred in, did not become as popular as the previous one. Both videos are a parody of popular Chinese MVs in the 1970s, particularly the work of Singaporean singer Huang Ching Yuan.
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2025
Kopitiam Days
Movie
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2022
Sunny Side up
TV show Chan Wing Fye
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2020
My Guardian Angels
TV show Ye Jin Quan
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2018
VIC
TV show Security Guard
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2018
Mind Matters
TV show Loke Liang Sheng
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2017
Life Less Ordinary
TV show Curry Puff
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2017
Take 2
Movie Di Tie
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2016
Lulu the Movie
Movie Brad Pit
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2015
Mr. Unbelievable
Movie Eric Kwek Hock Seng
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2015
Ah Boys to Men 3: Frogmen
Movie Mr. Jin / Aloysius's Father
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2014
Wayang Boy
Movie
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2014
The Lion Men: Ultimate Showdown
Movie Master He
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2014
The Lion Men
Movie Master He
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2013
Ilo Ilo
Movie Lim Beng Teck
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2013
Ah Boys To Men 2
Movie Mr. Jin / Aloysius's Father
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2012
Ah Boys To Men
Movie Mr. Jin / Aloysius's Father
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2011
It's a Great, Great World!
Movie Bellboy
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2010
New Beginnings
TV show Chen Cong Ming
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2007
One Last Dance
Movie Pui
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2004
Man at Forty
TV show Wang Shao Qi
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2000
The Legendary Swordsman
TV show Tian Boguang
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1991
The Last Swordsman
TV show Liu Sheng Ci Lang
