Terry Chen (born February 3, 1975) is a Canadian film and television actor.
Chen was born to ethnic Chinese parents originating from Taiwan (father) and mainland China (mother) in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. After an education at schools in Edmonton and Vancouver, British Columbia, he attended college in Calgary and studied at the University of Calgary. He traveled for two years before returning to Vancouver to pursue acting. He currently lives in Vancouver and Los Angeles, performing film and television work.
Chen's breakout role was as real-life Rolling Stone editor Ben Fong-Torres in the 2000 Cameron Crowe film, Almost Famous. He has since appeared in several television shows, including Steven Spielberg's Emmy Award-winning science fiction TV miniseries Taken, and was a series regular on Combat Hospital. Chen has also appeared in feature films I, Robot, The Chronicles of Riddick, Snakes on a Plane and a leading role in the horror/thriller They Wait.
Chen currently plays a recurring role in the Canadian science fiction series Continuum, which premiered on Showcase on May 27, 2012.
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“If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work—then I was never an artist.”
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