Tim Chiou

Chiou has also appeared in the Colony Theater production of Michael Golamco's play, Year Zero as Han as well as the production of the play at the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago. Chiou has also appeared in Snow Falling on Cedars at Theaterworks in Silicon Valley as Kabuo Miyamoto, Beth Henley's Crimes of the Heart at East West Players, You Can't Take It with You at the Geffen Playhouse as well as the Berkeley Repertory Theater production of Heidi Stillman's The North China Lover, a stage adaptation of Marguerite Duras's novel, The Lover. He has also reprised his role as "The Lover" in Looking Glass Theater's 2013 Chicago production of Heidi Stillman's The North China Lover, the play getting rave reviews from The Chicago Sun-Times, Time Out Chicago, and The Chicago Theater Beat.

Chiou won a "Best Actor" award at the 8th Annual NBC Short Cuts Film Festival in 2013 for his performance as "King" in Kevin Lau's short film, Made in Chinatown opposite Elaine Kao. The awards ceremony was hosted by Craig Robinson, and the film Made in Chinatown also won awards for Best Short (presented by Marlon Wayans), and Best Writing. For the 2013 NBC Short Cuts Film Festival, only eight films made the final cut of finalists considered for awards out of the 1400 total films submitted.

Tim Chiou (born November 23, 1979) is an American actor who has played a number of television and film roles. He most notably plays the reoccurring role of the venture capitalist Ed Chen on Season 4 of HBO's Silicon Valley.