“Chen, especially, gets plenty of belly laughs every time she is onstage.” –WhatsOnStage on Avenue Q
“Shin-Fei Chen, looking back from the present with warmth but also curiously elegiac” – Exeunt Magazine on Three Sisters
MAJOR FILM & TELEVISION
- CHINESE BURN | Elizabeth | BBC
- THE 101-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO SKIPPED THE BILL AND DISAPPEARED | Cindy | FLX
- DOCTOR WHO | Newsreader | BBC
- BERLIN STATION | Analyst | Paramount TV
INDEPENDENT FILM
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CASUAL ENCOUNTERS: PHILADELPHIA TRUE CRIME CONFESSIONS | dir: Andrew Repasky McElhinney
- SOUTH PAW* | Sonya | dir: John Raposas
- FAA IHEIHE | Midori | dir: Daniel Michalos
- REPUBLIC OF PRUNUS PERSICA | Sarah | dir: Shahid Kamal
*Received Best Comedy Honourable Mention from Asians On Film 2015
THEATRE
- THREE SISTERS | Natasha | Lyric Theatre Belfast
- AVENUE Q | Christmas Eve | Upstairs at the Gatehouse
- ANON | Actor | Welsh National Opera
- IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE END | Ensemble | dreamthinkspeak
- THE HIT | Mrs. Sasamori | InterContinental Hotels
COMMERCIAL credits available upon request
CORPORATE: Barclays, GSK, Philips, McCann-Erickson, Nokia, Stratasys, Cambridge University Press
VOICEOVER: CBBC, Discovery Channel, TRW Automotive, Oxford University Press, Macmillan Publishers, TIAA-CREF, Beijing Yogurt
STILL PHOTOGRAPHY: Dulux, Speed Queen, Hoseasons, Pfizer
TRAINING
- Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
- Shari Carlson Studio
- Katt Shea
- Marcie Smolin
- RC Annie (blank firing handguns/RIFs)
STATS: Height: 5’2″ / Hair Colour: Black / Eye Colour: Brown
SPECIAL SKILLS (*denotes native or highly skilled)
- LANGUAGES: English*, Mandarin Chinese*, Taiwanese
- ACCENTS: American-Standard*, Mid-Atlantic*, British RP, Chinese*
- MUSIC & DANCE: Mezzo-soprano*, ballroom dancing
- SPORTS: snowboarding, tai-chi, yoga
- PERFORMANCE: Musical theatre, physical theatre, voiceover*, presenting
- OTHER SKILLS: Writing*, interviewing/voxpop*, devising, translating
OTHER
- Dual citizenship in USA & Republic of China, work visa in UK
- Member of Equity (UK)
- M.A. Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
- B.S. University of California, Berkeley