Zhai Siming

Born in Hebei, China, and the only child of a single-parent family, Zhai moved to Singapore with his mother, at the age of seven. Zhai's mother has since relocated to Maryland, U.S. for her beauty business, when he was 19.^[2] She had initially planned for Zhai to join her after he completed his studies in Singapore, but his participation in the Star Search 2019 competition changed the plans.^[3]

Growing up attending local schools, Zhai has been a basketball enthusiast since he was young.^{[citation needed]} At the age of 17, while studying in Secondary 5 at Orchid Park Secondary School,^[1] he successfully auditioned for a role in the 2014 basketball film Meeting the Giant, which was directed by Tay Ping Hui and produced by Zhu Houren.^[3][4]

At 1.87m tall, Zhai is formerly a part-time model and an engineering student at Temasek Polytechnic.^[1] He began modelling after he was scouted for Hey Gorgeous (Season 3) in 2015. Zhai has also acted in many small part roles on television and worked numerous part-time jobs, including selling ice cream door-to-door, waiting for jobs at banquets, and working in retail, prior to joining Star Search in 2019, where he was one of the top 12 contestants at the finals.^[1] In an interview, Zhai named Taiwanese actor Eddie Peng as one of his "biggest inspirations" as he admired Peng's determination and passion in his numerous action movies.^[3]

In 2021, Zhai, Herman Keh, and Tyler Ten were teamed up as the group "HST" by Mediacorp's artiste management arm, The Celebrity Agency. The trio were previously signed to the same modelling agency and had known each other before joining the Star Search competition.^[5][6]

Zhai is also a TikTok personality who has accumulated more than 115K followers and 1.3 million "likes" to date.^[7]

Television series

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Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref
2015	The Dream Makers II
2018	A Lonely Fish (寂寞鱼。听见)	Jayden
	Say Cheese	Brandon
	Close your Eyes (闭上眼睛看不见)
2019	Muay Thai Girl
	All Around You (回路网)	Zack Lee
2020	Super Dad (男神不败)	Beck
2021	The Peculiar Pawnbroker (人心鉴定师)	Hao Haoren		[8]
	Key Witness (关键证人)	Quan Shengxian
	CTRL	Huang Yiming
	The Heartland Hero	Kim Woo Min	Guest appearance
	Soul Old Yet So Young (心里住着老灵魂)	Wei
2022	Healing Heroes (医生不是神)	Kelun
	Soul Doctor (灵医)	Benson
	First of April (愚人计划)
	Genie in a Cup (哇到宝)	Ma Yingwei
	Love at First Bite (遇见你真香)	Zi Xuan
2023	Fix My Life	Weng Jianhao
	My One and Only	Ma Zhongyi		[9]
TBA	Hungry Souls (味尽缘)

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Film

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
2014	Meeting the Giant	Jiangyi

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Variety show

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Year	English title	Mandarin title	Notes
2021	#JustSwipeLah	刷一刷	Co-host

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Compilation albums

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Year	English title	Mandarin title	Ref
2021	MediaCorp Music Lunar New Year Album 21	新传媒群星福满牛年Moo Moo 乐	[10]
2022	MediaCorp Music Lunar New Year Album 22	新传媒群星旺虎泰哥迎春乐

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