James Chen () is an American actor. He is best known for portraying
Kal on ''
The Walking Dead''. Chen also played
Samuel Chung on the
Netflix
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series ''
Iron Fist''.
Early life and education
Chen was born and raised in New York and is of Chinese descent.
After earning a Bachelor of Arts from the
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...
, Chen earned a Master of Fine Arts from the
Yale School of Drama
The David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University is a graduate professional school of Yale University, located in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1924 as the Department of Drama in the School of Fine Arts, the school provides training in ...
. He was awarded with the Dexter Wood Luke Memorial Prize for his work there.
Career
In 2011, he played the recurring character Adrian Sung in the crime series ''
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''. He appeared in ''
The Walking Dead'', playing
Kal in the shows'
sixth through ninth seasons.
In 2015, he co-starred in the LGBT drama ''
Front Cover'' opposite
Jake Choi
Jake Choi (born January 14, 1985) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Miggy on the American Broadcasting Company, ABC comedy ''Single Parents (TV series), Single Parents''. He previously starred in ''Front Cover'', an LGBTQ in ...
.
Since 2018 he plays Ian
Lim, an FBI Analyst in the
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainme ...
drama
''FBI''.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
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Living people
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
American male film actors
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
American male television actors
American male actors of Chinese descent
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