Chin Shih-chieh

Chin Shih-chieh (born 29 December 1951) is a Taiwanese actor, director and playwright.

Chin was born in Pingtung County, Taiwan, on 29 December 1951, while his ancestral home in Hefei, Anhui.

He graduated from the National Pingtung University of Science and Technology.

Chin is known for his work with the Performance Workshop, the Lanling Theatre, and the Godot Theater Company.

By 1980, he was known as a director, leading the performances of Ho Chu’s New Match for Lanling.

He directed the 2002 production of She is Walking, She is Smiling staged at the National Theatre in Taipei, by the Performance Workshop.

He was cast in Art, a Gadot production, the next year alongside Ku Pao-ming and Lee Li-chun.

Chin was cast in Irma la Douce in 2007, and performed several times at Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, the National Theatre, and the Hsinchu Performing Arts Auditorium.

In 2008, Chin starred in Othello alongside Lee.

Performances were held throughout Taiwan, marking Godot's twentieth anniversary.

As Othello's run stretched into January 2009, Chin remained on the cast.

Chin directed Ho Chu’s New Match a second time in May 2009.

In July 2009, Chin shared the National Award for Arts with Wang Da-hong and four others.

In 2010, Chin appeared in The 39 Steps for Godot.

This was the first production to be licensed in Chinese while still on an original run in New York and London.

The next year, Chin took the stage in Tuesdays with Morrie, based on a memoir of the same name.

Chin film roles include Cho Li's directorial debut, Zoom Hunting (2010), and Lin Fu-ching's first film Jumping Boy (2012).

Chin has often worked with director Chung Mong-hong, appearing in The Fourth Portrait (2010), and Soul (2013).

The performance ran in Taipei and Taichung through March 2012.

In 2013, Chin joined the cast of Stan Lai's A Dream Like A Dream.

Chin narrated the 2015 documentary The Rocking Sky, and portrayed a business tycoon in Love in Vain (film) (2016).