Ken Zheng
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- Actor
- Screenwriter
- Martial artist
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| Born | 5 April 1995 Jakarta, Indonesia |
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| Years active | 2011–present |
| Website | brushwithdanger |
Ken Zheng (born 5 April 1995) is an Indonesian actor, screenwriter and martial artist.[1] He began his career as a martial artist at a young age, and has since starred in Brush with Danger (2014)[2] and an action thriller entitled Insight (2021) [3] starring Tony Todd, John Savage, Keith David, Madeline Zima, Sean Patrick Flanery, and directed by his sister Livi Zheng.[4]
Ken Zheng was born in Jakarta on 5 April 1995. At 10 years old, he moved to Beijing, China with his older sister Livi Zheng.[5]
Martial arts and stunt work
Zheng began training in martial arts at an early age, joined the Indonesian National Kick-boxing team in 2010, and when Zheng turned 16, he became the youngest kickboxing champion in Indonesia's history.[6] Zheng would go to win the championship once more, and also placed 5th in the 2012 World Kick Boxing Championship in Macau.
Education
While attending the Western Academy of Beijing, Zheng began creating his own films and documentaries, co-founding and building an educational outreach service group for poorly funded rural Chinese schools, and shooting and assembling the school's special event coverage for the Academy's Film department. At the academy, Zheng also began making documentaries focusing on another one of his passions: Education for children of poor and migrant workers. He wrote and directed a documentary about the Book-a-Book Foundation, a group he co-founded composed of high school students who raised money to create a mobile library service for under-developed migrant schools around Beijing. Zheng also shot a documentary about Children’s Hope Foundation, which serves Beijing’s most impoverished schools, and the Hearts 4 Arts Foundation about high school students who provides arts education to migrant students.
Zheng graduated with a bachelor's degree in Radio, TV and Film Production at the University of Texas-Austin.[7]