Hispanopedia WikiTimothy Chiou (born November 23, 1979) is an American actor. He most notably played the reoccurring role of the venture capitalist Ed Chen on Season 4 of HBO's Silicon Valley.
Education
Chiou attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he majored in English and was involved in the Asian American theatre company on campus, LCC, which had been co-founded by Randall Park just several years prior. He would later join Park to form the comedy troupe "The Propaganders".[1][2][3]
Career
Chiou's most prominent role to date has been as the venture capitalist Ed Chen on Season 4 of HBO's Silicon Valley. The character, who works at the fictional Raviga Capital Management,[4] serves as a parody of Silicon Valley "bro" culture.[5]
On television, he also played A.J., the Gang leader on IZombie,[6] and on TV shows such as House M.D., The Cape (as Kwan), Victorious, Parenthood (as Mike Garrison), CSI:NY, Grey's Anatomy, Southland, Dollhouse (as Travis Nikoden), NCIS (as Officer Kevin Lim), Hannah Montana, Chuck, Just Jordan, and 'Til Death.[7]
Chiou has starred in feature films such as multi-character film Crossing Over also starring Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, Ashley Judd, Justin Chon, Leonardo Nam and more, Seventh Moon opposite Amy Smart as her love interest, Quentin Lee's The People I've Slept With as Fred, the husband of Lynn Chen's character, Juliet, and as "The Wang" in Abraham Lim's The Achievers, written by Michael Golamco. He has also been in a number of independent short films such as James Huang's Represent and The Adventures of Johnny Karate and Golden Delicious, Viet Nguyen's Ninja Say What, and Nadine Truong's Initiation.[8]
Chiou has also appeared in the Colony Theater production of Michael Golamco's play, Year Zero as Han[9][10] as well as the production of the play at the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago.[11] Chiou has also appeared in Snow Falling on Cedars at Theaterworks in Silicon Valley as Kabuo Miyamoto,[12] Beth Henley's Crimes of the Heart at East West Players,[13]You Can't Take It with You at the Geffen Playhouse[14] as well as the Berkeley Repertory Theater production of Heidi Stillman's The North China Lover, a stage adaptation of Marguerite Duras's novel, The Lover.[15] He has also reprised his role as "The Lover" in Looking Glass Theater's 2013 Chicago production of Heidi Stillman's The North China Lover, the play getting rave reviews from the Chicago Sun-Times, Time Out Chicago, and The Chicago Theater Beat.[16][17][18][19][20]
Chiou has also appeared in print modeling ads for companies such as GNC.[21]
Awards
Chiou won a "Best Actor" award at the 8th Annual NBC Short Cuts Film Festival in 2013 for his performance as "King" in Kevin Lau's short film, Made in Chinatown opposite Elaine Kao.[22] The awards ceremony was hosted by Craig Robinson, and the film Made in Chinatown also won awards for Best Short (presented by Marlon Wayans), and Best Writing.[23] For the 2013 NBC Short Cuts Film Festival, only eight films made the final cut of finalists considered for awards out of the 1400 total films submitted.[8]
Filmography
References
- ^"Cast: Alumni and Inactive Cast". LCC Theatre Company at UCLA.
- ^Ashok Kondabolu (July 26, 2013). "Ashok and Randall Park Celebrate Father's Day". Asian American Writers' Workshop. Retrieved December 17, 2014.
- ^"Meet Propergander (Part I)". UCLA International Institute. August 16, 2005.
- ^"Silicon Valley | Official Website for the HBO Series | HBO.com" – via www.hbo.com.
- ^"HBO's Silicon Valley's VC-Bro 'Ed Chen' - Breaking the Stereotype". 14 June 2017.
- ^"2 broke girls has found its "hot asian guy"". Retrieved 2023-02-24.
- ^"Resume". tim chiou. 2011-08-31. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
- ^ abId.
- ^Glendale News-Press, A Poignant Immigrant Story
- ^Eriksson, Scott. "Year Zero Review: Eymard Cabling, Tim Chiou, Christine Corpuz & David Huynh | Asians on Film". Archived from the original on 2011-12-13. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
- ^Chicagoist, Victory Gardens’ Year Zero Has Its Strengths, But Doesn’t Connect, "Victory Gardens' Year Zero Has its Strengths, but Doesn't Connect - Chicagoist". Archived from the original on 2010-02-07. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
- ^"Review: 'Snow Falling on Cedars' at TheatreWorks". 4 April 2011.
- ^East West Players, Crimes of the Heart, "CRIMES OF THE HEART - A Pulitzer Prize Winner". Archived from the original on 2012-10-23. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
- ^Geffen Playhouse, Press Release, You Can't Take It With You,
- ^"The North China Lover @ The Ground Floor". tim chiou. 2012-08-02. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
- ^"Reviews for "The North China Lover"". tim chiou. 2013-10-25. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
- ^"The North China Lover | Lookingglass Theatre Company". Archived from the original on 2013-11-02. Retrieved 2013-10-31.
- ^Heidi Weiss, Theater - 'The North China Lover', Chicago Sun-Times<
- ^Kris Vire, The North China Lover at Lookingglass Theatre Company: Theater review
- ^Scotty Zacher, Review: The North China Lover (Lookingglass Theatre)
- ^"GNC". tim chiou. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
- ^"'Chinatown' wins big at NBC Short Cuts". tim chiou. 2013-10-24. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
- ^"Donloe's Lowdown: Winners Announced At NBCUniversal's 8th Annual Short Cuts Festival, Hosted By Craig Robinson". Donloeslowdown.blogspot.com. 2013-10-25. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
- ^Tsai, Martin (May 12, 2016). "Review Thrilling 'Crush the Skull' never lets up". Los Angeles Times.
External links
- Tim Chiou's Official Site
- Tim Chiou at IMDb
- American male film actors
- American male television actors
- Living people
- 21st-century American male actors
- American male stage actors
- American actors of Taiwanese descent
- UCLA College of Letters and Science alumni
- Actors from Iowa City, Iowa
- 1979 births