Chris Pang

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While selling phones, Pang began his career incidentally after walking into a casting agency who were looking for a performer to do a Chinese accent for a voice over, Pang booked the role dubbing as Jackie Chan's brother in New Police Story 4.[8] This started his acting career.

Shortly afterwards he began studying at TAFTA in Melbourne, and completed the Full Time Program.

He temporarily migrated to Beijing and Hong Kong to pursue an acting career. His big break would come in 2010, booking one of the lead roles in Australian film adaptation of the young adult dystopian novel Tomorrow, When the War Began and would star opposite Caitlin Stasey, the film was a box office success in Australia. Later he acted in the feature film Citizen Jia Li.

Despite the success of Tomorrow, he received little traction and in 2013 moved to Hollywood to further pursue his acting career. He reunited with his Tomorrow co-star Caitlin Stasey in I, Frankenstein. In 2016, he appeared in the martial arts film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny, in which he played the character Flying Blade. He also recurred in the season two of drama series Marco Polo.

In 2018, he co-starred in the film adaptation Crazy Rich Asians, directed by Jon M. Chu and starring Constance WuMichelle Yeoh and Henry Golding. He portrayed Colin Khoo. He later produced and starred in the Manila-set independent film Empty by Design alongside Osric Chau and Filipina actress Rhian Ramos.

Empty by Design was his first feature film as a producer.

Pang co-starred in the 2019 reboot and continuation of Charlie's Angels, directed by Elizabeth Banks. In June 2019, he was cast in a Jason Katims pilot for Amazon Studios.

His recent work includes Andy Samberg feature; Palm Springs.

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