Osric Chau

Have a favourite artist, why not put up a profile of them here?
Post Reply
User avatar
morpheus
12 Girls band.
Posts: 23
Joined: Mon Apr 25, 2011 6:39 am
Location: Seattle, WA

Osric Chau

Post by morpheus »

Born in Vancouver, Canada, Osric took his first acting class when he was 8 and started his martial art's training martial arts when he was 13, quickly rising to become one of the best fighters in his category and a member of the Canadian Wu Shu National Team.

He began his career and honed his skills with roles on Canadian TV shows like "Dragon Boys" and "Cold Squad", and it wasn't long before he landed his first lead role in the feature "Kung Fu Killer" starring opposite Darryl Hannah and the late David Carradine, which was shot in China.

Upon his return to Vancouver, Osric promptly landed the role of the young Tibetan monk Nima, in Roland Emmerich's disaster epic 2012 for Columbia Pictures. His image was plastered everywhere, as he was the Monk on all the posters. Because of its storyline, sympathetic to China, the film went on to become the highest grossing film in China in 2009, making over 460M RMB (US$71M) in China alone and grossing over $760M worldwide.

With the success of 2012, Osric decided to relocate to Beijing in Spring of 2010 to study Mandarin and try his luck there. Shortly after his arrival he found himself delivering lines in Mandarin in his first Chinese film opposite Chinese super stars Andy Lau and Gong Li in "I Know A Woman's Heart", the Chinese remake of Paramount's "What Women Want". Subsequently, Osric moved to Shanghai for 3 months to shoot the Universal feature "Man With The Iron Fists" directed by RZA from The Wu Tang Clan. Osric's costars in this martial arts film included Russell Crowe, Lucy Liu, and Daniel Wu.

In 2011, whilst still shooting "Iron Fists" on location in China, using his I-phone, Osric auditioned for the role of "Peng" in Josh Shwartz's teen comedy "Fun Size" for Paramount, and got it! According to Osric, the charismatic Peng is his favorite character to date.

IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1859543/
Website
http://www.osricchau.com/

Image
User avatar
froggyboy604
Anime music gaming Fanatic
Posts: 35658
Joined: Thu Aug 18, 2005 11:28 pm
Contact:

Re: Osric Chau

Post by froggyboy604 »

It is cool that there is a famous Chinese Actor which is from Vancouver. He sounds very cool.
Post Reply