James Chen

James Chen


in New York, New York, USA
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.

Movies for James Chen...

Title: FBI: International
Character: Ian Lim
Released: September 21, 2021
Type: TV
Follow the elite agents of the FBI's International Fly Team as they travel the world with the mission of protecting Americans wherever they may be.
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Title: Run the World
Character: Brian
Released: May 16, 2021
Type: TV
The story of a group of Black women who work, live, and play in Harlem as they strive for world domination. They're not only surviving – but thriving together.
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Title: The Mandalorian
Character: Amnesty Officer G27
Released: November 12, 2019
Type: TV
After the fall of the Galactic Empire, lawlessness has spread throughout the galaxy. A lone gunfighter makes his way through the outer reaches, earning his keep as a bounty hunter.
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Unintended
Title: Unintended
Character: Danny
Released: November 7, 2019
Type: Movie
Lea, an adventurous and free-spirited thirteen-year-old, lives in idyllic Upstate New York with her academic parents. On the day her family prepares to relocate to Houston, her life takes a drastic turn. Just before their departure, in a tragic misstep, Lea is goaded into a fight with fifteen-year-old Bill. Acting out of frustration, she gets hold of a gun and fires in Bill's direction, causing him to fall into a deep shaft. Without knowing what became of him, Lea is forced to leave with her family. Twelve years later... Lea, who has repressed the memory of those tumultuous events, is an emotional wreck. Her memories of that fateful evening slowly drift back and torment her.
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Fluidity
Title: Fluidity
Character: Eric
Released: June 21, 2019
Type: Movie
The story of ten millennials living in New York City whose sexual lives intersect in the age of social media - where likes, impressions, and virtual "connections" threaten the very notion of personal relationships and human intimacy.
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A Bread Factory: Part Two
Title: A Bread Factory: Part Two
Character: Ray Prime
Released: October 26, 2018
Type: Movie
The Bread Factory is the scene for rehearsals of the Greek play Hecuba. But the real theatrics are outside the theater, with the town invaded by bizarre tourists and mysterious tech start-up workers. There is a new normal in Checkford, if it is even really Checkford any longer.
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Title: FBI
Character: Ian Lim
Released: September 25, 2018
Type: TV
The New York office of the FBI brings to bear all their talents, intellect and technical expertise on major cases in order to keep their city and the country safe.
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Title: The Last O.G.
Character: Devont'e Jackson
Released: April 3, 2018
Type: TV
An ex-felon is shocked to see just how much the world has changed when he is released from prison for good behavior after a 15-year stint and returns to his newly gentrified Brooklyn neighborhood.
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Title: Seven Seconds
Character: Franklin Lee
Released: February 23, 2018
Type: TV
Tensions run high between African American citizens and Caucasian cops in Jersey City when a teenage African American boy is critically injured by a cop.
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Title: 9-1-1
Character: Kevin Lee
Released: January 3, 2018
Type: TV
Explore the high-pressure experiences of police officers, paramedics and firefighters who are thrust into the most frightening, shocking and heart-stopping situations. These emergency responders must try to balance saving those who are at their most vulnerable with solving the problems in their own lives.
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Fatal Crossing
Title: Fatal Crossing
Character: Hayden
Released: November 19, 2017
Type: Movie
When high-flying tech entrepreneur Carson Griffin believes himself guilty of killing a pedestrian while driving drunk, guilt and paranoia begin to unravel his life ahead of the launch of his new company as he plays a dangerous game of cat and mouse with June, the girlfriend of the deceased who is hell-bent on proving he is responsible.
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Title: Marvel's Iron Fist
Character: Sam
Released: March 17, 2017
Type: TV
Danny Rand resurfaces 15 years after being presumed dead. Now, with the power of the Iron Fist, he seeks to reclaim his past and fulfill his destiny.
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Front Cover
Title: Front Cover
Character: Qi Xiao Ning
Released: August 5, 2016
Type: Movie
One man does all he can to veil his Asian heritage; the other takes great pains to hide his sexual orientation. Both of these things begin to change when Ryan is hired to prepare film star Ning for a fashion shoot, and the men develop a bond.
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Amira & Sam
Title: Amira & Sam
Character: Donnie
Released: May 30, 2014
Type: Movie
Sam, a soldier who had served in Afghanistan and Iraq, meets Amira when he visits her uncle, Bassam, who had served as Sam's Iraqi translator. Bassam and Sam have a special bond due to their time together in the war. Initially Amira does not trust him because he was an American soldier and her brother was killed by a bomb from American troops in the war. Sam's cousin, Charlie, asks Sam to help him with illegal hedge funds unbeknownst to Sam at the time. Amira is staying with her uncle Bassam since her father died. She sells bootlegged films on the street corner but is forced to stay with Sam after getting busted; immigration officials begin pursuing her. As the film progresses, Sam and Amira fall in love.
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Title: Broad City
Character: Bobby
Released: January 22, 2014
Type: TV
Broad City follows two women throughout their daily lives in New York City, making the smallest and mundane events hysterical and disturbing to watch all at the same time.
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Labor Day
Title: Labor Day
Character: Paramedic
Released: December 27, 2013
Type: Movie
Two two strangers are drawn together under incredible circumstances. What starts as an unforeseen encounter over a long holiday weekend soon becomes a second chance love story.
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Title: The Blacklist
Character: Lee Chung
Released: September 23, 2013
Type: TV
Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In the last two decades, he's made a list of criminals and terrorists that matter the most but the FBI cannot find because it does not know they exist. Reddington calls this "The Blacklist". Reddington will co-operate, but insists that he will speak only to Elizabeth Keen, a rookie FBI profiler.
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Title: Sleepy Hollow
Character: Lorenzo Chang
Released: September 16, 2013
Type: TV
Ichabod Crane is resurrected and pulled two and a half centuries through time to unravel a mystery that dates all the way back to the founding fathers.
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Title: Elementary
Character: Lt. Morrison
Released: September 27, 2012
Type: TV
A modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London and a stint in rehab, eccentric Sherlock escapes to Manhattan where his wealthy father forces him to live with his worst nightmare - a sober companion, Dr. Watson.
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The Amazing Spider-Man
Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Character: Police Officer
Released: June 23, 2012
Type: Movie
Peter Parker is an outcast high schooler abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben and Aunt May. Like most teenagers, Peter is trying to figure out who he is and how he got to be the person he is today. As Peter discovers a mysterious briefcase that belonged to his father, he begins a quest to understand his parents' disappearance – leading him directly to Oscorp and the lab of Dr. Curt Connors, his father's former partner. As Spider-Man is set on a collision course with Connors' alter ego, The Lizard, Peter will make life-altering choices to use his powers and shape his destiny to become a hero.
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Watching TV with the Red Chinese
Title: Watching TV with the Red Chinese
Character: Tzu
Released: December 2, 2011
Type: Movie
In New York City in 1980, Dexter Mitchell plays half-willing big brother to his neighbors, a trio of exchange students from the People's Republic of China.
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
Title: We Need to Talk About Kevin
Character: Dr. Foulkes
Released: September 28, 2011
Type: Movie
After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.
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Title: Person of Interest
Character: James Ko
Released: September 22, 2011
Type: TV
John Reese, former CIA paramilitary operative, is presumed dead and teams up with reclusive billionaire Finch to prevent violent crimes in New York City by initiating their own type of justice. With the special training that Reese has had in Covert Operations and Finch's genius software inventing mind, the two are a perfect match for the job that they have to complete. With the help of surveillance equipment, they work "outside the law" and get the right criminal behind bars. 
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Mr. Popper's Penguins
Title: Mr. Popper's Penguins
Character: Fish & Game Officer
Released: June 17, 2011
Type: Movie
Jim Carrey stars as Tom Popper, a successful businessman who’s clueless when it comes to the really important things in life...until he inherits six “adorable” penguins, each with its own unique personality. Soon Tom’s rambunctious roommates turn his swank New York apartment into a snowy winter wonderland — and the rest of his world upside-down.
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Title: The Walking Dead
Character: Kal
Released: October 31, 2010
Type: TV
Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
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Title: Blue Bloods
Character: Nelson Chiu
Released: September 24, 2010
Type: TV
A drama about a multi-generational family of cops dedicated to New York City law enforcement. Frank Reagan is the New York Police Commissioner and heads both the police force and the Reagan brood. He runs his department as diplomatically as he runs his family, even when dealing with the politics that plagued his unapologetically bold father, Henry, during his stint as Chief.
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Title: Running Wilde
Character: Pathologist
Released: September 21, 2010
Type: TV
Running Wilde is an American comedy television series created by Mitchell Hurwitz for the Fox Network. It stars Will Arnett as Steve Wilde, a self-centered, idle bachelor and heir to an oil fortune. The series follows Wilde's awkward attempts to regain the affection of his childhood sweetheart, Emmy, an environmentalist who had been living in the South American jungle, but whose young daughter does not want to return there and who secretly enlists Steve's help to keep Emmy at his mansion, leading to farcical situations and misunderstandings.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Adrian Sung
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Murder Below the Line
Title: Murder Below the Line
Character: Pete Richards
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Small town filmmaker is haunted by a persistent killer who wishes to inspire by reeking havoc on the lives of local college students. As the body count rises and the terror spreads throughout the community, Ron Louden must combat his fear and the ever imposing threat of the maniac who has only his worst interest at heart. Thrust into the limelight of this grizzly affair Ron sees the twist and turns pile up and begin to suffocate as he is brought into the center of a police investigation delving into this strange and terrifying mystery.
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One Stupid Thing
Title: One Stupid Thing
Character: Larry
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A harmless game takes a fatal turn, and the course of three high schoolers' lives change forever. They keep what they did a secret until the following winter break when they meet a girl who helps them uncover what really happened that night.