Nick Shen

Nick Shen (born 26 August 1976) is a Singaporean actor, businessman and host. He was a full-time Mediacorp artiste from 1999 to 2012. In 2011, Shen started the company Tok Tok Chiang Wayang to promote Chinese opera in Singapore.

Shen has a younger brother.^[3]

He attended St. Thomas Secondary School and had pursued a Diploma in Mass Communication at the Management Development Institute of Singapore.^[4]

Shen joined MediaCorp after winning the local edition of Star Search Singapore in 1999.^[5] Besides acting he has written and performed his own songs, some of which were used for MediaCorp drama theme songs. He left MediaCorp in early 2012^[6] and has since been working on the promotion of Chinese opera in Singapore.^[4] Shen is the global winner for Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World and JCI Cultural Achievement Honoure Award in 2014.^[7]

Shen has appeared as a guest radio DJ on MediaCorp Capital 95.8FM. He is also a faculty member of the Singapore Media Academy where he lectures in the Diploma in Acting course.^[1]

Since April 2013, Shen began performing the Chinese art of bian lian . He is the first actor in Singapore to master the art, where he was trained by Chinese bian lian master Li Shuimin for two years.^[1]

Shen shared on social media that he had a severe case of shingles which began developing symptoms in July 2023, which in turn led to a diagnosis of Bell's palsy.^[8] He was hospitalised for the illnesses for five days in September 2023.^{[9] [3]}

• Sing Singapore 2002 (2002)
• MediaCorp Music Lunar New Year Album (2003)
• MediaCorp Music Lunar New Year Album (2004)
• MediaCorp Music Christmas Album December Stars 2 (2007)

• The Glass Menagerie (2002)
• Revelation (2003)
• Opening The Doors Of Your Heart (2005)
• Snakes & Lovers (2006)
• Passage Of Time (2007)
• Own Time Own Target (2008)
• Beautiful Dreams (2009)
• Expectations! (2010)
• Don’t Forget To Say Good Bye (2011)
• Water Repentance (2013)

• Nick Shen at IMDb
• Profile on xin.msn.com
• Bio on J Team website
• Archived Bio on MediaCorp TV website

• 1976 births
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• Singaporean male television actors
• Singaporean people of Teochew descent
• Singaporean male film actors
• Singaporean male stage actors
• 20th-century Singaporean male actors
• 21st-century Singaporean male actors
• 21st-century Singaporean businesspeople
• 21st-century Singaporean educators
• Singaporean radio presenters
• Actors of Sichuan opera

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