After gaining local recognition for his role in the Cantonese sitcom Cheng Long Guai Xu (Season 1) (2005), he struggled as an actor and mainly worked as an acting coach until his breakout success in the television series The Knockout (2023).
[4] Zhang has worked as an acting coach for films and TV series, including the first season of the Cantonese sitcom Cheng Long Guai Xu (2005), where he also played his first leading role, and the film Love on Credit (2011), where he coached the leading actress Lin Chi-ling.
[7] Zhang later starred in the director's The Shadow Play (2018), Saturday Fiction (2019), and An Unfinished Film (2024), all of which received critical acclaim.
In 2017, Zhang appeared in End of Summer (2017), which won the KNN Award at the 22nd Busan International Film Festival.
On December 30, 2024, former actress Jiang Chen heavily suggested that Zhang committed domestic violence and infidelity during their relationship, which had begun when she took acting lessons from him thirteen years ago.