Name
James Chen
Known For
Acting
Birthday
(56 years old)
Place of Birth
New York, New York, USA
Biography
James C. Chen is an American actor, classically trained at the Yale School of Drama, bi-lingual in English & Mandarin.
He is best known for portraying Kal on The Walking Dead. Chen also played Samuel Chung on the Netflix series Iron Fist. In 2011, he played the recurring character Adrian Sung in the crime series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. He has appeared in The Walking Dead since the shows' sixth season. In 2015, he co-starred in the LGBT drama Front Cover opposite Jake Choi.
In 2018, he landed a supporting role on the TV series FBI.
Known For
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A teenage Peter Parker grapples with both high school and amazing super-human crises as hi...
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Tom Popper is a successful businessman who’s clueless when it comes to the really import...
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After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicate...
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One man does all he can to veil his Asian heritage; the other takes great pains to hide hi...
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Sam, a soldier who had served in Afghanistan and Iraq, meets Amira when he visits her uncl...
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The Bread Factory is the scene for rehearsals of the Greek play Hecuba. But the real theat...
- 2013 Labor Day as Paramedic
- 2011 Watching TV with the Red Chinese as Tzu
- 2011 Mr. Popper's Penguins as Fish & Game Officer
- 2012 The Amazing Spider-Man as Police Officer
- 2004 Murder Below the Line as Pete Richards
- 2025 One Stupid Thing as Larry
- 2016 Front Cover as Qi Xiao Ning
- 2014 Amira & Sam as Donnie
- 2017 Fatal Crossing as Hayden
- 2025 Rosemead as Dr. Hsu
- 2011 We Need to Talk About Kevin as Dr. Foulkes
- 2019 Fluidity as Eric
- 2018 A Bread Factory, Part Two: Walk With Me A While as Ray Prime
- 2019 Unintended as Danny
- 2019 The Mandalorian ( 1 episode ) as Amnesty Officer G27
- 2021 FBI: International ( 1 episode ) as Ian Lim
- 2010 Blue Bloods ( 1 episode ) as Nelson Chiu
- 2013 The Blacklist ( 1 episode ) as Lee Chung
- 2021 Run the World ( 2 episodes ) as Brian
- 2013 Sleepy Hollow ( 1 episode ) as Lorenzo Chang
- 2018 Seven Seconds ( 2 episodes ) as Franklin Lee
- 2018 The Last O.G. ( 1 episode ) as Devont'e Jackson
- 2011 Person of Interest ( 1 episode ) as James Ko
- 2010 The Walking Dead ( 17 episodes ) as Kal
- 1999 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ( 7 episodes ) as Adrian Sung
- 2014 Broad City ( 1 episode ) as Bobby
- 2010 Running Wilde ( 1 episode ) as Pathologist
- 2012 Elementary ( 1 episode ) as Lt. Morrison
- 2018 9-1-1 ( 2 episodes ) as Kevin Lee
- 2017 Marvel's Iron Fist ( 4 episodes ) as Sam
- 2018 FBI ( 97 episodes ) as Ian Lim
- 2009 NCIS: Los Angeles ( 1 episode ) as Cadeo Hoang
- 2026 CIA ( 3 episodes ) as Ian Lim
- 2018 FBI ( 1 episode ) as FBI Analyst Ian Lim
