Lynn Chen

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Field	Value
name	Lynn Chen
image	Lynn Chen on Criticologos.jpg
caption	Chen in 2021
birth_place	Queens, New York, U.S.
occupation
years_active	2001–present
spouse	Abe Forman-Greenwald
alma_mater	Wesleyan University
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|name = Lynn Chen |image = Lynn Chen on Criticologos.jpg |caption = Chen in 2021 |birth_place = Queens, New York, U.S. |occupation = |years_active = 2001–present |spouse = Abe Forman-Greenwald | alma_mater = Wesleyan University

Lynn Chen () is a Taiwanese-American actress and singer. She is best known for playing Vivian Shing in the film Saving Face, a role for which she won the "Outstanding Newcomer Award" at the 2006 Asian Excellence Awards. She writes the popular food blog The Actor's Diet. Chen was named a 2013 "New Change Agent" by Marie Claire.

Early life

Chen was born in Queens, New York and raised in Cresskill, New Jersey. Her mother is an opera singer and father was the founding president of The Kunqu Society, Inc. She has one brother; he is also in the music field. Her parents came to America from Taiwan in the late 1960s. Chen attended Wesleyan University, where she studied Women's Studies and Music.

Career

Chen has appeared in Alice Wu's film Saving Face as Vivian Shing opposite Michelle Krusiec (playing Wilhemina Pang, Shing's love interest) and Joan Chen. For her role in that film, she won the "Outstanding Newcomer Award" at the 2006 Asian Excellence Awards.

Television

In 2014, Chen appeared on the episode "Proof of Concept" of Mike Judge's HBO show, Silicon Valley as Grace Melcher. Before Saving Face, Chen appeared on TV shows such as All My Children (as reoccurring character Regina), Law & Order (as Jenny Wu), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (as Helen Chen), and a 2002 episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by Jon Stewart as a Vietnamese Girl. She has also appeared on the TV Shows Law & Order: Trial by Jury (as Lin – Kressel's Assistant), Numb3rs (as Bree Eng), NCIS: Los Angeles (as Nurse Lisa), and the pilot for the show The Singles Table (as Lexi Park). In 2015 she played a nurse in the pilot episode of The Walking Dead spinoff series Fear the Walking Dead.

Feature films

Chen has also appeared in feature films such as Neil LaBute's Lakeview Terrace (2008) opposite Samuel L. Jackson (as Eden), David Langlitz's Mentor (2006) opposite Rutger Hauer (as Susan), Quentin Lee's The People I've Slept With (2009) (as Juliet, the sister of Karin Anna Cheung's character), Richard Wong's Yes, We're Open (2012) (as Sylvia, the wife of Parry Shen's character), Dave Boyle's White on Rice (2009) (as Ramona), Dave Boyle's Surrogate Valentine (2011) and Daylight Savings (2012) (as Rachel), Tom Huang's Why Am I Doing This? (2009) (as Katie), Kedar Korde's Xs & Oxs (2007) (as Gwen), Jennifer Sharp's I'm Through with White Girls (The Inevitable Undoing of Jay Brooks (2007) (as Candace), and Mark Levin's Little Manhattan (2005). She wrote and directed the 2020 film I Will Make You Mine, which was the third in the Surrogate Valentine trilogy and was a selection of the 2020 South By Southwest Film Festival.

Web series and online content

She currently appears on a web series entitled Nice Girls Crew directed by Tanuj Chopra (Sundance Film Festival Humanitas Prize Winner Punching at the Sun) and written by Chopra and Christine Kwon. The web series also stars her Saving Face co-star Michelle Krusiec as well as Sheetal Sheth. She also appears on an episode of Andrea Lwin's web series, Slanted (as Samantha). Chen has also written and produced a short film entitled Via Text (2011), which was directed by her husband Abe Forman-Greenwald.

Filmography

Film

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Fortune	Jen	Short
2002	Up to the Roof	DJ Night 1	Short
2004	Saving Face	Vivian Shing
2005	Fly Me Home		Short
2005	Little Manhattan	Girl on the Street
2006	Mentor	Susan
2006	Desperate Housewife	Gynecologist	Short
2007	I'm Through with White Girls	Candace
2007	X's & O's	Gwen
2008	Lakeview Terrace	Eden
2009	Why Am I Doing This?	Katie
2009	White on Rice	Ramona
2011	Surrogate Valentine	Rachel
2011	Via Text		Short
2012	Daylight Savings	Rachel
2012	Yes, We're Open	Sylvia
2012	**	Juliet
2013	Abby White, Interracial Relationship Counselor	Linda	Short
2014	Teacher in a Box	Ms. Malloy	Short
2014	Sutures	Audrey	Short
2015	Dying to Kill	Tracy
2016	Parachute Girls	Ellie	Short
2016	Chee and T	Lindo Chong
2016	Baby and Me Yoga	Dana	Short
2017	Rice on White	Linda	Post-production
2017	Growing Apart	Loa	Short, completed
2019	Go Back to China	Carol Li
2020	I Will Make You Mine	Rachel	Also writer and director
2021	Pooling to Paradise	Jenny
2021	See You Then	Naomi Liu
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Television

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	Law & Order	Jenny Wu	"Teenage Wasteland"
2001	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Helen Chen	"Inheritance"
2002	Saturday Night Live	Vietnamese Girl	"Jon Stewart/India.Arie"
2003	All My Children	Regina	Recurring role
2005	Law & Order: Trial by Jury	Lin	"The Abominable Showman"
2005	Numb3rs	Bree Eng	"Soft Target"
2007	**	Lexi Park	"Pilot", "The Housewarming Party"
2010	NCIS: Los Angeles	Nurse Lisa	"Anonymous"
2012	Slanted	Samantha	"Paying Your Dues"
2012–13	Nice Girls Crew	Sophie	Web series
2014	Silicon Valley	Grace Melcher	"Proof of Concept"
2015	Fear the Walking Dead	Nurse	"Pilot"
2015	**	Peggy Lee	"1.1"
2016	Parker and the Crew	Parker's mom	TV film
2016	Caring	Vicky	TV series
2019	Shameless	Mimi	Recurring role, 2 episodes
2021	Launchpad	Ann	"The Little Prince(ss)"
2021–22	Grey's Anatomy	Dr. Michelle Lin	Recurring role; 5 episodes
2024	High Potential	Nina	"Hangover"
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Video games

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
2015	Call of Duty: Black Ops III	Goh Xiulan
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References

References

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2. [http://www.marieclaire.com/world-reports/inspirational-women/new-change-agents-lisa-lee-lynn-chen New Change Agents Lisa Lee Lyn Chen] {{Webarchive. link. (August 11, 2014 , ''Marie Claire''. March 25, 2013. Retrieved April 20, 2013.)
3. Chang, Althea D. [http://www.asianlife.com/ext/magazine/viewArticles/id/78783593 "Asian American and Female in American Television and Films: Lynn Chen from All My Children"]{{dead link. (January 2018)
4. Honoring Fu-Yen and Lynn Chen, AAJA V3Con, http://v3con.com/2012/08/15/honoring-fu-yen-and-lynn-chen/ {{Webarchive. link. (March 13, 2013)
5. "Lynn Chen, Actress and Blogger".
6. "Chen '98 Explores Emotions of Directorial Debut for Filmmaker Magazine".
7. "How Blogger and Actress Lynn Chen Learned That Looks Don't Really Matter".
8. TV Guide, Lynn Chen, http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/lynn-chen/163250
9. Lynn Chen Interview, http://usasians-articles.tripod.com/articles-lynn-chen4.html
10. Cooper, Patrick. (March 9, 2015). "AMC Orders Two Seasons of 'The Walking Dead' Spin-Off: "Fear the Walking Dead"".
11. "AMC Announces Two Season Order for 'WALKING DEAD' Spin-off Series".
12. Lynn Chen, Notes on the Road, http://notesontheroad.com/lynn-chen.html {{Webarchive. link. (May 31, 2013)
13. AboutMe, LynnChen, http://about.me/lynnchen
14. Lynn Chen, TaiwaneseAmerican.org, 100 Passionate People, http://taiwaneseamerican.org/100people/lynn-chen/
15. (2 June 2020). "'I Will Make You Mine': Film Review". Variety.
16. "CAAM | Nice Girls Crew | SFIAAFF30".
17. CAAM, Nice Girls Crew Season 1, http://caamedia.org/blog/2012/11/05/nice-girls-crew-season-1-on-youtube/
18. Lynn Chen in 'Via Text', Angry Asian Man, http://blog.angryasianman.com/2011/10/lynn-chen-in-via-text.html
19. "Via Text".

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