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Chin Shih-chieh

Chin Shih-chieh (Chinese: 金士傑; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Kim Sū-kia̍t; born 29 December 1951) is a Taiwanese actor, director and playwright.

Biography[edit]

Chin was born in Pingtung County, Taiwan, on 29 December 1951, while his ancestral homeinHefei, Anhui. He graduated from the National Pingtung University of Science and Technology.

Career[edit]

Chin is known for his work with the Performance Workshop [zh], the Lanling Theatre [zh], and the Godot Theater Company [zh]. By 1980, he was known as a director, leading the performances of Ho Chu’s New Match for Lanling.^[1] He directed the 2002 production of She is Walking, She is Smiling staged at the National Theatre in Taipei, by the Performance Workshop.^[2] He was cast in Art, a Gadot production, the next year alongside Ku Pao-ming and Lee Li-chun.^[3] Chin was cast in Irma la Douce in 2007, and performed several times at Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall,^[4][5] the National Theatre,^[6] and the Hsinchu Performing Arts Auditorium [zh].^[7] In 2008, Chin starred in Othello alongside Lee.^[8] Performances were held throughout Taiwan,^[9] marking Godot's twentieth anniversary.^[10] As Othello's run stretched into January 2009, Chin remained on the cast.^[11][12][13] Chin directed Ho Chu’s New Match a second time in May 2009.^[1] In July 2009, Chin shared the National Award for Arts [zh] with Wang Da-hong and four others.^[14] In 2010, Chin appeared in The 39 Steps for Godot.^[15] This was the first production to be licensed in Chinese while still on an original run in New York and London.^[16] The next year, Chin took the stage in Tuesdays with Morrie, based on a memoir of the same name.^[17][18][19] The performance ran in Taipei and Taichung through March 2012.^[20][21][22] In 2013, Chin joined the cast of Stan Lai's A Dream Like A Dream.^[23]

Chin film roles include Cho Li's directorial debut, Zoom Hunting (2010),^[24] and Lin Fu-ching's first film Jumping Boy [zh] (2012).^[25] Chin has often worked with director Chung Mong-hong, appearing in The Fourth Portrait (2010),^[26] and Soul (2013).^[27] Chin narrated the 2015 documentary The Rocking Sky [zh],^[28] and portrayed a business tycoon in Love in Vain [zh] (2016).^[29]

Selected filmography[edit]

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External links[edit]

• Chin Shih-chiehatIMDb 
• Chin Shih-chieh at the Hong Kong Movie Database