BIO
Ken Zheng is a writer and an actor specialized in narrative films and commercials. Zheng’s work has featured renowned talent such as Keith David (Armageddon), Tony Todd (Candy Man), and John Savage (Deer Hunter, Godfather). Zheng’s work has been theatrically released in the United States and internationally. His commercial work has also received awards, such as Vibrant Jakarta, which won the 2020 Silver Telly Award for Branded Content: Promotional and Branded Content: Travel/Tourism categories.
Zheng was born and raised in Jakarta, but moved to Beijing when he was 11. At the age of 18, he moved to the US, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Radio, TV, and Film Production at the University of Texas-Austin.
In addition to film, Zheng is dedicated to charitable endeavors. For example, he launched his own films and documentaries, including co-founding and building an educational outreach service group for poorly funded rural Chinese schools. Zheng also began making documentaries focusing on another one of his passions: Education for economically disadvantaged children, and for migrant workers. He wrote and directed a documentary about the Book-a-Book Foundation, a group he co-founded to raise money to create a mobile library service for under-developed migrant schools around Beijing. Zheng also shot a documentary about Children’s Hope Foundation, which serves Beijing’s most impoverished schools, and the Hearts 4 Arts Foundation about high school students who provide arts education to migrant students.
Besides film, Ken is a competitive martial artist. He won numerous competitions, including the US Open, which has inspired his love for acting and writing.
