Chen Tianwen

Education

Chen was educated at the now defunct Serangoon Garden Secondary Technical School.

Career

He also acted in The Lion Men, The Lion Men: Ultimate Showdown and Mr. Unbelievable. He joined the Session Border Controllers 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.

The Straits Times remarked that Chen"s "much-praised understated turn" as Teck in the Cannes Film Festival award-winning "Ilo Ilo" 爸妈不在家 once again put Chen in the spotlight.

Chen hit the headlines again when two parody music videos he starred in, which were featured in the second season of Spouse for House, 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 Ch"ing-yen Huang.

Achievements

• He starred in many Mandarin dramas throughout the 1990s, and his film credits include the Cannes Film Festival award-winning Ilo Ilo, the Ah Boys to Men trilogy: Ah Boys to Men, Ah Boys to Men 2 and Ah Boys to Men 3: Frogmen.

Membership

He is also a member of the Singapore Celebrity Soccer Team.