Career
Since leaving full-time acting during the 2000s, he has been an illustrator and designer. Chen entered the entertainment industry after completing the Session Border Controllers (predecessor of MediaCorp) 7th drama training course in 1987. During the late 1990s he temporarily left showbiz for several years to concentrate on other projects.
He left MediaCorp at the end of 2007 for family reasons but made a brief return to the screens as a guest star in Channel 5 comedy Calefare and the second season of Channel U production Perfect Cut.
Besides acting, he has also presented and hosted shows ranging from sports events to variety shows to charity galas. Chen is one of the few Singaporeans to have successfully ventured into Hollywood and has starred in a film produced by Warner Brothers (Turn Left, Turn Right), as well as more recently in Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li distributed by Fox Pictures, as Xiang, father of Chun Li.
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