[2] Chen's breakout role[3] was as real-life Rolling Stone editor Ben Fong-Torres in the 2000 Cameron Crowe film Almost Famous.
[4] He has appeared in several television shows, including Steven Spielberg's TV miniseries Taken, and was a series regular on Combat Hospital.
[5] Chen has appeared in feature films I, Robot, The Chronicles of Riddick, Snakes on a Plane and had a leading role in the horror/thriller They Wait.
Chen played a recurring role in the Canadian science fiction series Continuum,[2] which premiered on Showcase on May 27, 2012.
Chen portrayed Xander Feng in Season 2 of Netflix's House of Cards.