James Chen
Date of birth:
Place of birth: New York, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: 陈清仁
Biography
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.
Movie Credits
Labor Day
2013-12-27
Two strangers are drawn together under incredible circumstances. What starts as an unforeseen encoun
Watching TV with the Red Chinese
2011-12-02
In New York City in 1980, Dexter Mitchell plays half-willing big brother to his neighbors, a trio of
Mr. Popper's Penguins
2011-06-17
Tom Popper is a successful businessman who’s clueless when it comes to the really important things i
The Amazing Spider-Man
2012-06-23
Peter Parker is an outcast high schooler abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised
Murder Below the Line
2004-11-18
Small town filmmaker is haunted by a persistent killer who wishes to inspire by reeking havoc on the
One Stupid Thing
2025-04-11
A harmless game takes a fatal turn, and the course of three high schoolers' lives change forever. Th
Front Cover
2016-08-05
One man does all he can to veil his Asian heritage; the other takes great pains to hide his sexual o
Amira & Sam
2014-05-30
Sam, a soldier who had served in Afghanistan and Iraq, meets Amira when he visits her uncle, Bassam,
Fatal Crossing
2017-11-19
When high-flying tech entrepreneur Carson Griffin believes himself guilty of killing a pedestrian wh
Rosemead
2025-12-05
In a race against time, an ailing woman discovers her teenage son's violent obsessions and must go t
We Need to Talk About Kevin
2011-09-28
After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relation
Fluidity
2019-06-21
The story of ten millennials living in New York City whose sexual lives intersect in the age of soci
A Bread Factory, Part Two: Walk With Me A While
2018-10-26
The Bread Factory is the scene for rehearsals of the Greek play Hecuba. But the real theatrics are o
Unintended
2019-11-07
Lea, who has repressed the memory of possibly having killed someone when she was a child, lives in N