Archie Kao

Archie Kao

Born: December 14, 1969
in Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Archie David Kao (born December 14, 1969) is an American actor and producer. He is best known for his American roles as Sheldon Jin on Chicago P.D., Archie Johnson on CSI, Sebastian in Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, and Kai Chen / Blue Power Ranger on the original 1993 series Power Rangers as well as the specials Power Rangers Lost Galaxy: The Power of Teamwork Overcomes All and Power Rangers in 3D: Triple Force!.

He's also known for his roles as Qiao Xiang Wan on Breath of Destiny, Chu Tian Qi on Love is the Air, Xiao Ye Shi on My Dear Boy, Tu Erdan on Nothing Gold Can Stay, and Jin Yu Lu on Fighter of the Destiny. (English translations)

Movies for Archie Kao...

Title: Rabbit Hole
Character: Elliot Gao
Released: March 26, 2023
Type: TV
Nothing is what it seems when John Weir, a master of deception in the world of corporate espionage, is framed for murder by powerful forces with the ability to influence and control populations.
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Christmas at the Ranch
Title: Christmas at the Ranch
Character: Charles
Released: December 1, 2021
Type: Movie
When Haley Hollis returns to her family ranch to try and save it from closure, she wasn't banking on spending so much time with ranch hand Kate - or falling for her.
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Title: Breath of Destiny
Character: Qiao Xiang Wan
Released: March 23, 2021
Type: TV
A medical team from the mainland of China arrived at an island in the South Pacific Ocean in order to complete their mission. But they were met with a rare natural disaster. Thus, their race against time begins as they try to complete their rescue mission. But, not only do they need to complete their rescue mission, they'll soon reveal a sinister plot underneath the surface.
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Title: The Flight Attendant
Character: The Client
Released: November 26, 2020
Type: TV
Flight attendant Cassandra Bowden wakes in her hotel room hungover from the night before in Dubai with a dead body lying next to her. Afraid to call the police, she continues her morning as if nothing happened. In New York, she is met by FBI agents who question her about her recent layover in Bangkok. Still unable to piece the night together, she begins to wonder if she could be the killer.
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Dream Breaker
Title: Dream Breaker
Character: Nan Yan
Released: November 9, 2018
Type: Movie
Chen Duling as a young woman who must fight her way through a mysterious, holographic game world designed by her late father to avenge his death.
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Title: Never Gone
Character: Xu Zhi Heng [Su Yun Jin's boss]
Released: November 6, 2018
Type: TV
The romance between failing student Su Yun Jin and high school genius Cheng Zheng is broken apart due to clashing personalities and a huge difference in social status. Coincidentally, they meet each other again in the workforce, and get entangled in each other’s lives once again.
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Legend of the Ancient Sword
Title: Legend of the Ancient Sword
Character: Xie Yi
Released: October 1, 2018
Type: Movie
Due to a fateful occurrence, Yue Wuyi leaves home. He meets revered master Xie Yi, who imparts to him the magical arts of Yan, and thus begins his journey of cultivation. Along the way he meets Wen Renyu, Xia Yize, Ah Ruan and company. They discover the schemes and conspiracies of Shen Ye, the grand priest of Liu Yue City. The group of adventurers undergoes dangers to defeat Shen Ye, and prevent a disaster from befalling the world.
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Title: Love is in the Air
Character: Chu Tian Qi
Released: January 18, 2018
Type: TV
Two years have passed since white collar worker Jiang Yi Yi and her first love Chu Tian Qi broke up. Even though Yi Yi pretends to not be affected anymore, she still can’t forget him. Then she meets the trainee guardian Fang Mu Ye from the Guardian Tribe, with whom she ends up living together. Mu Ye’s supernatural powers add a lot of fun to Yi Yi’s life, making her gradually forgetTian Qi and focus on her dream of becoming an inventor again. The two become a bickering couple, however, a crazy scientist, who’s looking for a study object, appears.
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Title: My Dear Boy
Character: Xiao Ye Shi
Released: December 22, 2017
Type: TV
Ruby is a woman who wants to be loved but can't seem to find the right man. She loses faith in love but then meets Derek. With him, she learns to appreciate herself and those people that are important to her and begins to have faith in love again.
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Title: Nothing Gold Can Stay
Character: Tu Erdan
Released: August 30, 2017
Type: TV
Zhou Ying is sold to the powerful Shen family by her foster father, yet successfully escapes by sneaking into merchant Wu Ping’s palanquin. The Wu family agreed to take her in after witnessing her remarkable business acumen, and she ends up marrying Wu Ping. The drama will chronicle the life of the Qing Dynasty's richest female merchant, and her struggles to keep the Wu family business afloat during the last years of the Qing Dynasty. Shen Xingyi is a happy-go-lucky young sir who has never known hardship in his life. After meeting Zhou Ying, he eventually decides to change his ways and becomes a mature noble who is willing to protect his country and family from disaster. He has a seemingly unrequited love for Zhou Ying.
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Title: Fighter of the Destiny
Character: Jin Yu Lu
Released: April 17, 2017
Type: TV
Chun Chang Sheng was abandoned in a flowing river and plucked up by a Taoist monk. He’s actually the fourth Prince of the Chen’s Royal bloodline. He’s plagued with an incurable illness, fated not to live past the age of 20. To find a cure, he leaves his temple, armed with a promise of marriage scroll, to become a student at a famous academy. He meets Xu You Rong and they slowly fall in love after hopping through the trials and tribulations of his journey .
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Into the Rainbow
Title: Into the Rainbow
Character: Song
Released: April 8, 2017
Type: Movie
When teenagers Rachel and Grace travel inside a super-powered rainbow to China, they disturb nature's balance. Using Rachel's connection to the energy of the rainbow and with help from their new friend Xiao Cheng, they must race against time to save the Earth.
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The Adventures of Wei BaoBao
Title: The Adventures of Wei BaoBao
Released: December 29, 2016
Type: Movie
Provoking Laughter is a 2016 Chinese adventure crime comedy film directed by Tang Xu and starring Pan Yueming, Wu Yue, Chang Yuan, Archie Kao, Tan Kai and Lin Peng. It was released in China by Dadi Century Films Distribution on 29 December 2016.
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A Journey Through Time with Anthony
Title: A Journey Through Time with Anthony
Released: November 20, 2015
Type: Movie
A young man from Dalian pursues his studies in Melbourne, where he undergoes love, loss and self-discovery in this coming-of-age tale.
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Ulterior Motive
Title: Ulterior Motive
Released: September 17, 2015
Type: Movie
Originally living a happy and stable life, things have become clouded for rich heiress Ye Shuang (Qin Lan) after the unexpected disappearance of her husband Ling Feng (Archie Kao) and daughter. After consulting with her father Ye Cheng (Simon Yam), Shuang decides to call the police, where she re-encounters her ex-boyfriend, Yao Jie (Gordon Lam). During the investigation process, Jie finds this million-dollar ransom kidnapping case to be a misty mystery. Specializing in investigating by starting from minor details, he targets Cheng as a potential suspect. At this time, Cheng's activities has also become suspiciously strange. When the mystery seemed to have dispersed, Cheng dies from an accident. At this time, clues from a murder case that took place 20 years ago begins to surface. Behind the mysterious kidnappings lies the ulterior motive.
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Blackhat
Title: Blackhat
Character: Shum
Released: January 13, 2015
Type: Movie
Nicholas Hathaway, a furloughed convict, and his American and Chinese partners hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta. As Hathaway closes in, the stakes become personal as he discovers that the attack on a Chinese nuclear power plant was just the beginning.
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The Deathday Party
Title: The Deathday Party
Character: Danny Wong
Released: September 19, 2014
Type: Movie
A single mother and her daughter are forced to stop by a black car on the way home. When they regain consciousness, they are in a Karst cave with seven strangers. The game is to find out a killer among the nine.
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Title: Chicago P.D.
Character: Sheldon Jin
Released: January 8, 2014
Type: TV
A riveting police drama about the men and women of the Chicago Police Department's District 21 who put it all on the line to serve and protect their community. District 21 is made up of two distinctly different groups: the uniformed cops who patrol the beat and go head-to-head with the city's street crimes and the Intelligence Unit that combats the city's major offenses - organized crime, drug trafficking, high profile murders and beyond.
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A Better Place Than This
Title: A Better Place Than This
Character: Chen Wei
Released: April 25, 2013
Type: Movie
A lonely Singaporean death row guard tries to help a young Australian convicted of drug trafficking accept her fate despite a bizarre contradiction - he is her executioner.
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Keye Luke
Title: Keye Luke
Character: Edwin Luke
Released: May 13, 2012
Type: Movie
KEYE LUKE is a short film bio-pic about pioneering Actor and Artist Keye Luke, the first, original on-screen Kato in the 1940s Green Hornet decades before Bruce Lee and also the All-American "Number One Son" in the popular Charlie Chan films of the 1930s.
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Title: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Character: Sebastian
Released: July 15, 2011
Type: Movie
A story set in 19th century China and centered on the lifelong friendship between two girls who develop their own secret code as a way to contend with the rigid cultural norms imposed on women.
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The People I've Slept With
Title: The People I've Slept With
Character: Jefferson
Released: August 13, 2009
Type: Movie
The People I've Slept With - a promiscuous woman who finds herself with an unplanned pregnancy and needs to figure out who the baby daddy is...NOW. Angela Yang loves sex. She loves it so much she needs to make baseball cards of her lovers to help her remember where she's been. She doesn't think twice about her lifestyle until she finds out that she's pregnant. Her gay best friend, Gabriel Lugo tells her to "take care of it," but her conservative sister, Juliet persuades Angela to get married to the baby's father and lead a "normal" life like her. Angela listens to her sister, chooses to keep the baby, and goes on a quest to find the identity of the father by any means necessary.
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The Hills Have Eyes 2
Title: The Hills Have Eyes 2
Character: Han
Released: March 22, 2007
Type: Movie
A group of National Guard trainees on a routine mission find themselves up against cannibalistic mutants in the New Mexico desert.
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Title: Heroes
Character: Doctor
Released: September 25, 2006
Type: TV
Common people discover that they have super powers. Their lives intertwine as a devastating event must be prevented.
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Fast Money
Title: Fast Money
Character: Jin
Released: May 7, 2006
Type: Movie
A young Chinatown drug dealer enlists the help of a violent gang buddy to commit his first home invasion robbery, but his pursuit of "fast money" yields unintended consequences that will forever change his life.
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Nomad: The Warrior
Title: Nomad: The Warrior
Released: July 17, 2005
Type: Movie
The Nomad is a historical epic set in 18th-century Kazakhstan. The film is a fictionalised account of the youth and coming-of-age of Ablai Khan, as he grows and fights to defend the fortress at Hazrat-e Turkestan from Dzungar invaders.
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Title: Desperate Housewives
Released: October 3, 2004
Type: TV
Looking down on her friends and family isn't a way of life for Mary Alice Young... it's a way of death. One day, in her perfect house, in the loveliest of suburbs, Mary Alice ended it all. Now she's taking us into the lives of her family, friends and neighbors, commenting from her elevated P.O.V.
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Title: Century City
Released: March 16, 2004
Type: TV
Century City is an American science fiction-legal drama television series set in Los Angeles in the year 2030.
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Title: Lilo & Stitch: The Series
Character: (voice)
Released: September 20, 2003
Type: TV
This animated series chronicles the further adventures of renegade scientist Dr. Jumba Jookiba's beloved Experiment 626, who is now living happily as Lilo's alien buddy Stitch. Jumba’s remaining experiments have landed all over Hawaii in the form of dehydrated pods. Lilo and Stitch’s mission is to catch Stitch’s "cousins" before they fall into the clutches of the evil Dr. Jacques von Hamsterviel!
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When in Rome
Title: When in Rome
Character: Nobu
Released: November 26, 2002
Type: Movie
Teenage sisters Charli and Lola are on the verge of an experience beyond their wildest dreams! Pack your bags and jet off to Rome as the girls start their summer internship working for the legendary Derek Hanson - the totally cool international tycoon whose empire reaches from airlines to cutting-edge fashion. Amid the fabulous sights of this exciting city, the girls do their best to impress their boss, while still finding time to design their own line of very hip clothing, meet some very cute guys and turn their summer abroad into one awesome adventure they - and you - will never forget!
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Purpose
Title: Purpose
Character: Kiko
Released: February 21, 2002
Type: Movie
A software developer becomes a billionaire and is distracted by fame, greed and power, then must save his invention and company from a hostile takeover.
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Against All Evidence
Title: Against All Evidence
Character: Minh Van Canh
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
Police arrest a woman for the murder of his five years son. She claims to have drunk the night before and not knowing what happened to his small son, but the gun crime appears in her bed and have their fingerprints. Everyone, including the husband, who that morning was on duty in the hospital, it suspect.
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The One
Title: The One
Character: Woo
Released: November 2, 2001
Type: Movie
A sheriff's deputy fights an alternate universe version of himself who grows stronger with each alternate self he kills.
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Thank Heaven
Title: Thank Heaven
Character: Sam Lee
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
The life of Jack Lander (Matt Keeslar) a television news producer, was a disaster ... until the day when a misdirected golf ball changed everything. During a round of golf with friends, Jack ball accidentally hits an old man and leaves him unconscious. Arnie (Gene Bicknell) and will call then wakes up with amnesia. Jack has to take responsibility for it. As the day progresses, Arnie performs small miracles wherever he go. But what is it about Arnie? How do you perform those miracles?
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Title: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Character: Campus Security Tech / M. Blaze
Released: October 6, 2000
Type: TV
A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.
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Title: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Character: Archie Johnson
Released: October 6, 2000
Type: TV
A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.
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Power Rangers in 3D: Triple Force!
Title: Power Rangers in 3D: Triple Force!
Character: Kai Chen
Released: April 28, 2000
Type: Movie
It's triple the trouble when Trakeena teams up with Olympius to steal all of Earth's power. Their plan? To capture humans and use them as an energy source to give Trakeena more power than she's ever had before. No one will be able to defeat her! Not even the Lightspeed Rescue Power Rangers! The world's only hope - a small girl named Heather. It's up to her to find the courage and heart to stop Trakeena in her tracks. Can she do it or will time run out? And who are the mysterious visitors from the distant planet Mirinoi? Could the Lost Galaxy Power Rangers be back on Earth?
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Title: Once and Again
Released: September 21, 1999
Type: TV
The series depicts the family of a single mother and her romance with a single father.
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Power Rangers Lost Galaxy: The Power of Teamwork Overcomes All
Title: Power Rangers Lost Galaxy: The Power of Teamwork Overcomes All
Character: Kai Chen
Released: July 27, 1999
Type: Movie
The Rangers on board their ship, the Terra Venture, do battle with various bad guys in this compilation of several episodes from the television series.
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Title: ER
Character: Yuri
Released: September 19, 1994
Type: TV
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
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Title: Power Rangers
Character: General Venjix (voice)
Released: August 28, 1993
Type: TV
A team of teenagers with attitude are recruited to save Angel Grove from the evil witch, Rita Repulsa, and later, Lord Zedd, Emperor of all he sees, and their horde of monsters.
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Title: Power Rangers
Character: Kai Chen
Released: August 28, 1993
Type: TV
A team of teenagers with attitude are recruited to save Angel Grove from the evil witch, Rita Repulsa, and later, Lord Zedd, Emperor of all he sees, and their horde of monsters.
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Title: Interior Chinatown
Character: Uncle Wong
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
A background character stuck doing work in a police procedural called ‘Black & White’ has no idea of his leading man status. When he inadvertently becomes a witness to a crime, Willis Wu begins to unravel a criminal web in Chinatown, revealing certain family secrets and what it feels like to be in the spotlight.