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Jen Sung

Acting

Also known as Jen Kuo Sung · Jen Sung Outerbridge · Jen Sun Outerbridge

Biography

Jen Kuo Sung was born and raised in Taiwan till he reached his teens. As a child, he was besotted with Bruce Lee after sneaking into a cinema to watch Bruce's The Big Boss and has been a student of kung fu ever since. Jen migrated with his mother to Florida where he spent his teen years in a predominantly black high school sharing his love of Bruce Lee and kung fu with like minded brothers where he excelled in all sports, leading to a college football scholarship. Jen parlayed his physical abilities and martial arts skills to his work as an actor in the first few films he was cast in Florida where he caught the eye of producer Ng See Yuen (who discovered Jackie Chan). Ng See Yuen advised him to move to Los Angeles, where Jen has since been steadily acting & action directing and making a name for himself as a character actor. Married to actress & writer Lydia Look whom he frequently collaborates with on camera and in voiceover where they are a much sought after team speaking seven languages between them both. Jen recently recurred as villain Boss Chen in Agents Marvel of Shield and will be seen in Livi Zhang's Insight and the upcoming Netflix series God's & Monsters by Adi Shankar.

Filmography28 titles

Static Shock

2000as Yao Ming / Center Force (voice)

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

2013as Chen

NCIS: Los Angeles

2009as Man in Sunglasses

Murder, She Wrote

1984as Chinese Kidnapper

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

2007Stunts

Black Dynamite

2009Stunts

Paddleton

2019as Master Liu

Mulan

2020as Kilifu Tegin

Blade

1998Stunts

No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers

1990as Terrorist

American Born Chinese

2023as Larry / Chinese Man

Safe

2012Stunts

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

2006Stunts

Kung Pow: Enter the Fist

2002as Stick Fighter #2

The Quest

1996as Phang (Siamese Fighter)

Six Days Seven Nights

1998as Pirate

The Shadow

1994as Mongol

Paper Tiger

2020as Fashi

Transformers: Age of Extinction

2014Stunts

Under Siege 2: Dark Territory

1995as Mercenary (uncredited)

The Happytime Murders

2018as Sandra's Bodyguard

History of the World: Part II

2023

The Guardians of Justice (Will Save You!)

2022as Dr. Ravencroft

Escape Plan: The Extractors

2019as Chow

Revenge of the Pontianak

2019Action Director, Stunt Coordinator

Monkeybone

2001as Attila the Hun

Mr. Nanny

1993as Kojiro

Battle of the Damned

2013as Elvis (as Jen Kuo Sung)