Chen Bo Lin

Name: Wilson Chen Bo Lin/ Berlin
Chinese Name： 陈柏霖
Profession: Actor
Country: Taiwan
Height: 180cm
Weight: 68kg
Blood Type: B
Birthday:1983/8/27

Wilson is known as one of the most popular actors in Taiwan. His best and first movie was “Blue Gate Crossing”, where he had the head role as a swimmer. He, then, becomes more popular over the years and finally had the role as Blockhead in “The Twins Effect 2″ and Ted in “The Eye 10″.

IT was his striking resemblance to Takeshi Kaneshiro that first got him noticed two years ago.

One Taiwanese drama and four movies - including a Jackie Chan blockbuster - later, Chen Po-lin is arguably the next big thing from Taiwan to hit Asia.

At the tender age of 21, the bushy-browed good-looker already boasts a string of achievements in showbiz.

Besides starring in Jackie’s crowd-pleaser The Twins Effect II and Sylvia Chang’s romantic film, 20 30 40, he also completed his first Japanese film, About Love, which co-stars cutie-pie Vivian Hsu and Shiseido babe Misaki Ito.

Even acclaimed Japanese director Shunji Iwai (Love Letter) has expressed interest in working with him.

Freelance entertainment writer Darrien Choong, 28, also thinks highly of Po-lin.

He said: ‘He has shown a lot of potential in acting, and his image is very versatile. He can be androgynous, hip-hop or sporty.’

Po-lin, who made a sterling debut in the award-winning Taiwanese film, Blue Gate Crossing, represents a new generation of Taiwanese leading men - not seen since his lookalike, Takeshi, and others like Nicky Wu and Alec Su sent girls into screaming fits in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Indeed, for the last decade, Taiwan seemed to have suffered a dearth of poster-boys as stylish Japanese dramas with no shortage of fashionable, pretty boys took Asia by storm.

Taiwan is known more for its Qiong Yao period weepies than hip idol dramas, not to mention slick, gorgeous movies. So it could only stand by and watch as its girls looked to Hong Kong and Japan for idol material.

More Links:
Wilson’s Blog
Berlin at Sina
Filmography

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