Acting

Russell Yuen

Born October 30, 1965 · Montreal, Quebec, Canada (age 60)

Russell Yuen is a prolific Canadian character actor, voice artist and martial artist with an extensive career spanning over 200 film, television and video game roles. He is widely recognized for his recurring roles in major sci-fi series and his versatile voice-acting contributions to top-tier video games.

Known For

Arrival

Arrival · 2016

MovieDramaScience Fiction

Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.

The Incredible Hulk

The Incredible Hulk · 2008

The Incredible Hulk

MovieScience FictionAction

Scientist Bruce Banner scours the planet for an antidote to the unbridled force of rage within him: the Hulk. But when the military masterminds who dream of exploiting his powers force him back to civilization, he finds himself coming face to face with a new, deadly foe.

The Apprentice

The Apprentice · 2024

MovieHistoryDrama

A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as a hungry scion of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn, the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today. Cohn sees in Trump the perfect protégé—someone with raw ambition, a hunger for success, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to win.

The Day After Tomorrow

The Day After Tomorrow · 2004

The Day After Tomorrow

MovieScience FictionThriller

After paleoclimatologist Jack Hall is largely ignored by UN officials when presenting his environmental concerns about the beginning of a new Ice Age, his research proves true when a superstorm develops, setting off catastrophic natural disasters throughout the world. Trying to get to his son, Sam, who is trapped in New York City with his friend Laura and others, Jack and his crew must travel to get to Sam before it's too late.

The Bone Collector

The Bone Collector · 1999

The Bone Collector

MovieCrimeThriller

Lincoln Rhyme was the department's top homicide detective and leading expert in criminal forensics until an injury left him paralyzed, depressed, and incapable of working. But when a gruesome murder in Manhattan leaves detectives baffled, they call on Rhyme to help solve the mystery. Amelia Donaghy, a rookie cop whose quick thinking preserved a gruesome murder scene, is enlisted by Rhyme to be his on-the-scene forensics expert. With Amelia reluctantly acting as Rhyme's able-bodied go-between, the pair piece together cryptic clues the killer leaves behind at the scene of the crime, hoping to catch the grisly serial killer.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving · 2023

MovieHorrorMystery

After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts - the birthplace of the holiday. Picking off residents one by one, what begins as random revenge killings are soon revealed to be part of a larger, sinister holiday plan.

Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3

Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 · 2022

Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3

MovieFantasyComedy

Zed and Addison are beginning their final year at Seabrook High in the town that’s become a safe haven for monsters and humans alike. Zed is anticipating an athletic scholarship that will make him the first Zombie to attend college, while Addison is gearing up for Seabrook’s first international cheer-off competition. Then suddenly, extraterrestrial beings appear around Seabrook, provoking something other than friendly competition.

Bulletproof Monk

Bulletproof Monk · 2003

Bulletproof Monk

MovieActionComedy

A mysterious and immortal Tibetan kung fu master, who has spent the last 60 years traveling around the world protecting the ancient Scroll of the Ultimate, mentors a selfish street kid in the ancient intricacies of kung fu.

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Arrival

Arrival · 2016

MovieDramaScience Fiction

Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.

Chinese Scientist

The Incredible Hulk

The Incredible Hulk · 2008

The Incredible Hulk

MovieScience FictionAction

Scientist Bruce Banner scours the planet for an antidote to the unbridled force of rage within him: the Hulk. But when the military masterminds who dream of exploiting his powers force him back to civilization, he finds himself coming face to face with a new, deadly foe.

FBI Agent (uncredited)

The Apprentice

The Apprentice · 2024

MovieHistoryDrama

A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as a hungry scion of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn, the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today. Cohn sees in Trump the perfect protégé—someone with raw ambition, a hunger for success, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to win.

Creditor

The Day After Tomorrow

The Day After Tomorrow · 2004

The Day After Tomorrow

MovieScience FictionThriller

After paleoclimatologist Jack Hall is largely ignored by UN officials when presenting his environmental concerns about the beginning of a new Ice Age, his research proves true when a superstorm develops, setting off catastrophic natural disasters throughout the world. Trying to get to his son, Sam, who is trapped in New York City with his friend Laura and others, Jack and his crew must travel to get to Sam before it's too late.

Hideki, Japanese Astronaut

The Bone Collector

The Bone Collector · 1999

The Bone Collector

MovieCrimeThriller

Lincoln Rhyme was the department's top homicide detective and leading expert in criminal forensics until an injury left him paralyzed, depressed, and incapable of working. But when a gruesome murder in Manhattan leaves detectives baffled, they call on Rhyme to help solve the mystery. Amelia Donaghy, a rookie cop whose quick thinking preserved a gruesome murder scene, is enlisted by Rhyme to be his on-the-scene forensics expert. With Amelia reluctantly acting as Rhyme's able-bodied go-between, the pair piece together cryptic clues the killer leaves behind at the scene of the crime, hoping to catch the grisly serial killer.

Forensics Worker

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving · 2023

MovieHorrorMystery

After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts - the birthplace of the holiday. Picking off residents one by one, what begins as random revenge killings are soon revealed to be part of a larger, sinister holiday plan.

Detective Peter Chu

Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3

Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 · 2022

Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3

MovieFantasyComedy

Zed and Addison are beginning their final year at Seabrook High in the town that’s become a safe haven for monsters and humans alike. Zed is anticipating an athletic scholarship that will make him the first Zombie to attend college, while Addison is gearing up for Seabrook’s first international cheer-off competition. Then suddenly, extraterrestrial beings appear around Seabrook, provoking something other than friendly competition.

Cheer Announcer #1

Bulletproof Monk

Bulletproof Monk · 2003

Bulletproof Monk

MovieActionComedy

A mysterious and immortal Tibetan kung fu master, who has spent the last 60 years traveling around the world protecting the ancient Scroll of the Ultimate, mentors a selfish street kid in the ancient intricacies of kung fu.

Brother Tenzin

The Human Stain

The Human Stain · 2003

The Human Stain

MovieDramaRomance

Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his name, Silk writes a book about the events with his friend and colleague Nathan Zuckerman, who in the process discovers a dark secret Silk has hidden his whole life. All the while, Silk engages in an affair with Faunia Farley, a younger woman whose tormented past threatens to unravel the layers of deception Silk has constructed.

Chinese Waiter

The Adventures of Pluto Nash

The Adventures of Pluto Nash · 2002

The Adventures of Pluto Nash

MovieActionComedy

The year is 2087, the setting is the moon. Pluto Nash, the high-flying successful owner of the hottest nightclub in the universe, finds himself in trouble when he refuses to sell his club to lunar gangster Mogan, who just happens to be helping the mysterious Rex Crater mastermind a plan to take over the entire moon.

Oliver

Shattered Glass

Shattered Glass · 2003

Shattered Glass

MovieDramaHistory

Stephen Glass is a staff writer for the respected current events and policy magazine The New Republic and a freelance feature writer for publications such as Rolling Stone, Harper's and George. By the mid-90s, Glass' articles had turned him into one of the most sought-after young journalists in Washington, but a bizarre chain of events - chronicled in Buzz Bissinger's September 1998 Vanity Fair article - suddenly stopped his career in its tracks.

Emmit Rich

Crisis

MovieThrillerCrime

Three stories about the world of opioids collide: a drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation between Canada and the U.S., an architect recovering from an OxyContin addiction tracks down the truth behind her son's involvement with narcotics, and a university professor battles unexpected revelations about his research employer, a drug company with deep government influence bringing a new "non-addictive" painkiller to market.

FDA Group Member

A Family Man

A Family Man · 2016

Dane Jensen is a driven, Chicago-based headhunter, working at a cut-throat job placement firm. When his boss pits Dane against Lynn Vogel, Dane's equally driven but polar-opposite rival at the firm, in a battle for control over the company. When his young son is then given a harrowing diagnosis, Dane is suddenly pulled between achieving his professional dream and spending time with the family that needs him now more than ever.

Recruiter #1

Eye of the Beholder

Eye of the Beholder · 1999

Eye of the Beholder

MovieMysteryThriller

A reclusive surveillance expert is hired to spy on a mysterious blackmailer, who just may be a serial killer.

Federal Agent #1

Hunting Grounds

Hunting Grounds · 2025

Hunting Grounds

MovieActionThriller

Desperate to find refuge for her children, Chloe Marvino runs away from her Mafia tied husband, and finds shelter in a cabin with a recluse drifter named Jake. But as her husband's henchmen draw closer to her, it turns out that Jake is the biggest enemy of them all.

Harold

Slow Burn

Slow Burn · 2005

MovieMysteryCrime

A district attorney is involved in a 24-hour showdown with a gang leader and is, at the same time, being manipulated by an attractive assistant district attorney and a cryptic stranger.

Chinese Cop

Scanners II: The New Order

Scanners II: The New Order · 1991

Scanners II: The New Order

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

A breed of humans with dangerously powerful telepathic abilities -- the scanners -- are being recruited by a corrupt police commander, John Forrester, in his crusade to take over the city.

Convenience Store Thug

Owning Mahowny

Owning Mahowny · 2003

MovieCrimeDrama

Dan Mahowny was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four he was assistant manager of a major branch in the heart of Toronto's financial district. To his colleagues he was a workaholic. To his customers, he was astute, decisive and helpful. To his friends, he was a quiet, but humorous man who enjoyed watching sports on television. To his girlfriend, he was shy but engaging. None of them knew the other side of Dan Mahowny--the side that executed the largest single-handed bank fraud in Canadian history, grossing over $10 million in eighteen months to feed his gambling obsession.

Auditor

The Secret

The Secret · 2007

MovieDramaRomance

Husband, wife, and daughter have moved from Boston to Williamstown. At 16, Samantha treats her mother shabbily, but when the two of them are in a horrific car crash, the mother wills Sam to live, somehow losing her own life while her spirit enters Sam.

ICU Doctor #2

WarGames: The Dead Code

WarGames: The Dead Code · 2008

WarGames: The Dead Code

MovieScience FictionDrama

Computer hacker Will Farmer engages a government super-computer named Ripley in an online terrorist-attack simulation game. Little does Farmer know that Ripley has been designed to appeal to potential terrorists, and certain software glitches have in turn made him become paranoid.

David Chen (Tech)

The Red Violin

The Red Violin · 1998

MovieDramaMystery

300 years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin has traveled through Austria, England, China, and Canada, leaving both beauty and tragedy in its wake. In Montreal, Samuel L Jackson plays an appraiser going over its complex history.

Older Ming (Montréal)

A Dennis the Menace Christmas

A Dennis the Menace Christmas · 2007

A Dennis the Menace Christmas

MovieComedyFamily

A Dennis The Menace version of A Christmas Carol where Mr. Wilson plays his own version of Scrooge. While Dennis has problems of his own with the neighborhood bully, he does his best to try and give Mr. Wilson the Christmas Spirit. Dennis causes his usual damage and Mr. Wilson ends up breaking Dennis' spirit. An Angel of Christmas Past Present and Future steps in to help save Christmas for the Mitchells, the Wilsons, and everyone else.

Police Officer Wong

Left Behind: World at War

Left Behind: World at War · 2005

Left Behind: World at War

MovieActionAdventure

A year and a half ago, the globe was hit with the biggest catastrophe it had ever seen. Without warning and without explanation, hundreds of millions simply vanished off the face of the Earth. The world was in chaos like never before. Yet somehow one man seemed to rise to the challenge. One man had the strength and conviction to unite a shattered world. One man gave the world hope. That man was Nicolae Carpathia, who now rules the entire world.

Chinese Officer

Midnight Sun

Midnight Sun · 2014

MovieFamilyAdventure

In northern Canada, a young boy sets a goal for himself to to reunite an abandoned polar bear cub with its mother. Goran Visnjic joins the cast as Muktuk, a half Inuit and half Canadian, who knows the terrain where the polar bears live and who agrees to help the boy.

Asian Doctor

Mayday

SeriesDocumentaryDrama

Major real-life air disasters are depicted in this series. Each episode features a detailed dramatized reconstruction of the incident based on cockpit voice recorders and air traffic control transcripts, as well as eyewitnesses recounts and interviews with aviation experts.

Flight Engineer Wei

The Expanse

The Expanse · 2015

SeriesDramaMystery

A thriller set two hundred years in the future following the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.

Interrogator #2

Murdoch Mysteries

Murdoch Mysteries · 2008

Murdoch Mysteries

SeriesMysteryDrama

A Victorian-era Toronto detective uses then-cutting edge forensic techniques to solve crimes, with the assistance of a female coroner who is also struggling for recognition in the face of tradition, based on the books by Maureen Jennings.

Jonathan Edwards

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds · 2022

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

Follow Captain Christopher Pike, Science Officer Spock and Number One in the years before Captain Kirk boarded the U.S.S. Enterprise, as they explore new worlds around the galaxy.

Commodore Tafune

Warehouse 13

Warehouse 13 · 2009

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyComedy

After saving the life of the President, two secret service agents - Myka Bering and Pete Lattimer - find themselves assigned to the top secret Warehouse 13. The Warehouse is a massive, top secret facility that houses dangerous and fantastical objects. Together, Pete and Myka along with fellow agents Claudia, Steve Jinks and Warehouse caretaker Artie, must recover artifacts from around the globe before they can cause catastrophic damage.

Hotel Concierge

STAT

The daily lives of the personnel of the St-Vincent hospital in Montréal.

M. Dao

Earth: Final Conflict

Earth: Final Conflict · 1997

Earth: Final Conflict

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

Years ago, the Taelons came to Earth, offering friendship and technology to humanity. But there are those who believe the Taelons have more sinister motives.

Terry Wu

Private Eyes

Private Eyes · 2016

SeriesCrimeDrama

Ex-pro hockey player Matt Shade irrevocably changes his life when he teams up with fierce P.I. Angie Everett to form an unlikely investigative powerhouse.

Dr. Gary Turner

Relic Hunter

Relic Hunter · 1999

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyMystery

Sydney Fox is a professor and globe-trotting "relic hunter" who looks for ancient artifacts to return to museums and/or the descendants of the original owner. She is aided by her linguistic assistant Nigel and occasionally by her somewhat air-headed secretary Claudia. She often ends up battling rival hunters seeking out artifacts for the money.

Elder Monk

La Femme Nikita

La Femme Nikita · 1997

La Femme Nikita

SeriesAction & AdventureDrama

Nikita is a drug-addicted juvenile delinquent who was accused of killing a police officer in cold blood during an attempted robbery of a pharmacy. She is later arrested and sentenced to death by lethal injection, upon which she was secretly drugged by the government, faking her death. Nikita is then "recruited" by a secret government organization and transformed into a highly skilled assassin who cannot be traced.

Tran Van Lin

Dark Matter

Dark Matter · 2015

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

The six-person crew of a derelict spaceship awakens from stasis in the farthest reaches of space. Their memories wiped clean, they have no recollection of who they are or how they got on board. The only clue to their identities is a cargo bay full of weaponry and a destination: a remote mining colony that is about to become a war zone. With no idea whose side they are on, they face a deadly decision. Will these amnesiacs turn their backs on history, or will their pasts catch up with them?

Akita

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Are You Afraid of the Dark? · 1992

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

SeriesMysteryKids

This spooky anthology series for kids recounts ghost stories told by the young members of the Midnight Society as they gather around a campfire. Each episode opens with members of the Midnight Society at their secret spot in the woods, where they prepare their fire and the night's storyteller announces the title of the his or her offering. However, the cameras soon leave the storyteller and switch to the tale being told.

Mr. Chin the Cook

3 Body Problem

3 Body Problem · 2024

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyMystery

Across continents and decades, five brilliant friends make earth-shattering discoveries as the laws of science unravel and an existential threat emerges.

Emperor Zhou

Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye

Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye · 2002

Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye

SeriesFamilyDrama

Based on a true story, this family-friendly series follows the adventures of a young, hearing impaired woman who has a special gift and goes to work for the FBI in Washington, D.C. She's one hard-headed, soft-hearted woman whose talent for reading lips helps crack crimes and bag the bad guys in places listening devices can't penetrate. With her hearing-ear dog, Levi, Sue's a glutton for jeopardy – and there's (almost) nothing she won't do to bring notorious criminals to justice. This remarkable, edge-of-your-seat drama is an inspiring tribute to the ability of the human spirit to overcome adversity and achieve great things.

Donny Wong

Transplant

Transplant · 2020

Dr. Bashir Hamed, a Syrian doctor with battle-tested skills in emergency medicine, makes the difficult decision to flee his country and build a new life in Canada with his younger sister Amira. Bash works to navigate a new environment after earning a coveted residency in the Emergency Department of one of the best hospitals in Toronto, York Memorial.

Dr. Alan Yong

Boston Blue

Boston Blue · 2025

SeriesCrimeDrama

NYPD Detective Danny Reagan takes a job with the Boston PD and is paired with Detective Lena Silver, part of a law enforcement family comprised of District Attorney Mae Silver, Police Superintendent Sarah Silver, rookie cop Jonah Silver and Rev. Edwin Peters. Reagan hopes to reconnect with his son, Sean, in Boston.

Butch Burnside

Republic of Doyle

Republic of Doyle · 2010

Republic of Doyle

SeriesComedyDrama

Jake Doyle and his ex-cop father, Malachy, run a Newfoundland detective agency. Their rugged seaside town never lacks for intriguing cases, and the Doyles don't always land on the right side of the law.

Dr. Ng

Accused

Accused · 2023

SeriesCrimeDrama

In this crime anthology series, viewers discover how an ordinary person got caught up in an extraordinary situation, ultimately revealing how one wrong turn leads to another, until it’s too late to turn back. Told from the defendant’s point of view, each episode opens in a courtroom on the accused without knowing their crime or how they ended up on trial.

Jovan Black

Frankie Drake Mysteries

Frankie Drake Mysteries · 2017

Frankie Drake Mysteries

SeriesDramaCrime

Toronto’s only female private detective in the 1920s takes on the cases the police don’t want or can’t handle. From airplanes and booze running to American G-men, Communists and union busters, Frankie’s fearless sense of adventure gets her into all kinds of trouble, but she always manages to find her way out.

James Lee

Blood & Treasure

Blood & Treasure · 2019

Blood & Treasure

SeriesDramaAction & Adventure

An antiquities expert teams up with an art thief to catch a terrorist who funds his attacks using stolen artifacts.

HK Detective

Twice in a Lifetime

Twice in a Lifetime · 1999

Twice in a Lifetime

SeriesDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

Prematurely deceased people are given the opportunity to correct something that went wrong in their lives and thus change them for the better.

Agent Hoye

Street Time

Street Time · 2002

Follows a fair parole officer and his parolee who wants to go straight but his former business associates are after him.

Michael Yu

Big Wolf on Campus

Big Wolf on Campus · 1999

Big Wolf on Campus

SeriesAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy

Tommy is bitten by a werewolf during a camping trip a week before the start of his senior year. After becoming a werewolf, he fights against supernatural entities to keep his hometown of Pleasantville safe.

Kenzo

Slasher: Ripper

Slasher: Ripper · 2023

Slasher: Ripper

SeriesMysteryCrime

There's a killer stalking the mean streets, but instead of targeting the poor and downtrodden like Jack the Ripper, The Widow is meting out justice against the rich and powerful.

Mr. Chow