Tim Chiou


Tim Chiou is a Taiwanese-American actor who has played a number of television and film roles. He most notably plays the reoccurring role of the venture capitalist Ed Chen on Season 4 of HBO's Silicon Valley.

Education

Chiou attended UCLA where he was involved in the Asian American theatre company on campus, LCC, which had been co-founded by Randall Park just several years prior. He would later join Park to form the comedy troupe "The Propaganders".

Career

Chiou's most prominent role to date is as the venture capitalist Ed Chen on Season 4 of HBO's Silicon Valley. The character, who works at the fictional Raviga Capital Management, serves as a parody of Silicon Valley "bro" culture.
On television, he also played A.J., the Gang leader on IZombie, and on TV shows such as House M.D., The Cape, Victorious, Parenthood, ', Grey's Anatomy, Southland, Dollhouse, NCIS, Hannah Montana, Chuck, Just Jordan, and Til Death.
Chiou has starred in feature films such as multi-character film Crossing Over also starring Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, Ashley Judd, Justin Chon, Leonardo Nam and more, Seventh Moon opposite Amy Smart as her love interest, Quentin Lee's The People I've Slept With as Fred, the husband of Lynn Chen's character, Juliet, and as "The Wang" in Abraham Lim's The Achievers, written by Michael Golamco. He has also been in a number of independent short films such as James Huang's Represent and The Adventures of Johnny Karate and Golden Delicious, Viet Nguyen's Ninja Say What, and Nadine Truong's Initiation.
Chiou has also appeared in the Colony Theater production of Michael Golamco's play, Year Zero as Han as well as the production of the play at the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago. Chiou has also appeared in Snow Falling on Cedars at Theaterworks in Silicon Valley as Kabuo Miyamoto, Beth Henley's Crimes of the Heart at East West Players, You Can't Take It with You at the Geffen Playhouse as well as the Berkeley Repertory Theater production of Heidi Stillman's The North China Lover, a stage adaptation of Marguerite Duras's novel, The Lover. He has also reprised his role as "The Lover" in Looking Glass Theater's 2013 Chicago production of Heidi Stillman's The North China Lover'', the play getting rave reviews from The Chicago Sun-Times, Time Out Chicago, and The Chicago Theater Beat.
Chiou has also appeared in print modeling ads for companies such as GNC.

Awards

Chiou won a "Best Actor" award at the 8th Annual NBC Short Cuts Film Festival in 2013 for his performance as "King" in Kevin Lau's short film, Made in Chinatown opposite Elaine Kao. The awards ceremony was hosted by Craig Robinson, and the film Made in Chinatown also won awards for Best Short, and Best Writing. For the 2013 NBC Short Cuts Film Festival, only eight films made the final cut of finalists considered for awards out of the 1400 total films submitted.

Filmography

;Film
YearWorkRoleNotes
2006The AchieversThe Wang
2007The Wizard of GoreChinese Mickey
2007L.A. ProperDaniel Yang
2008Seventh MoonYul
2009Crossing OverSteve
2010A FoundlingJim Wales
2012The People I've Slept WithFred
2014Tin ManTeddy MeadeTV movie
2015Crush the SkullRiley
2015UnsingleMichaelTV movie
2016Love Is All You Need?Brad Henderson
2019Plus OneNate

;Television
YearWorkRoleNotes
2006StandoffPaulEpisode: "Shanghai'd"
2006-2007Til DeathDelivery man2 episodes
2007-2009Grey's AnatomyParamedic3 episodes
2007October RoadYoung dudeEpisode: "Let's Get Owen"
2008Just JordanMonteEpisode: "Picture Me Rollin'"
2008ChuckMighty JockEpisode: "Chuck Versus the Break-Up"
2008Hannah MontanaStage managerEpisode: "He Ain't a Hottie, He's My Brother"
2009NCISPetty Officer Kevin LimEpisode: "Broken Bird"
2009DollhouseTravis NikodenEpisode: "A Spy in the House of Love"
2009SouthlandResponding officerEpisode: "See the Woman"
2010'VinceEpisode: ""
2011VictoriousRecord producerEpisode: "The Diddly-Bops"
2011The CapeKwanEpisode: "Scales"
2011HouseDad #1Episode: "Parents"
20122 Broke GirlsEdwinEpisode: "And the One-Night Stands"
2013-2016Living with ModelsKimRecurring role, 22 episodes
2013Baby DaddyGood SamaritanEpisode: "Surprise!"
2014Don't Talk in the KitchenKennyEpisode: "Single Ladies Life Alert"
2014Chicago P.D.Rick FongEpisode: "Different Mistakes"
2015, 2017-19iZombieAJEpisode: "Liv and Let Clive"; "Return of the Dead Guy"; "Yipee Ki Brain, Motherscratcher!"; "Insane in the Germ Brain; and "The Fresh Princess"
2015Major CrimesKen SongEpisode: "Blackout"
2016StitchersMorganEpisode: "Pretty Little Lawyers"
2016Code BlackLt. Jeff ReeseEpisode: "Sleight of Hand"
2017Silicon ValleyEd ChenMultiple episodes in Season 4
2020SEAL Team''Michael ‘Thirty Mike’ ChenSeason 3

;Web series