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Desmond Chiam
Highest Rated: 90% Joy Ride (2023)
Lowest Rated: 38% Five Blind Dates (2024)
Birthday: Jul 30, 1987
Birthplace: Melbourne, Australia
Australian actor Desmond Chiam earned his big break in American television as a fearsome elf soldier on the New Zealand-lensed fantasy series "The Shannara Chronicles" (MTV/Spike, 2016- ). The Australian native began appearing in short films in 2007 before graduating to guest roles on television in his country of origin, including the long-running soap opera "Neighbours" (7 Network, 1985- ). He relocated to Los Angeles, and after graduating from the University of Southern California's Masters in Screenwriting program, stepped behind the scenes to create and produce "We, the Band" (2015), a satire of rock bands and their members that screened at several media festivals before airing on YouTube. Guest roles on Stateside programs, including "Bones" (Fox, 2005-2017) preceded his breakout role as the Elf general Riga, who led an elite team of warriors known as the Crimson in a fight to rid the series' fictional setting, the Four Lands, of magic.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38% |
|
Five Blind Dates | Unknown (Character) | - | 2024 |
| 90% |
|
Joy Ride | Clarence (Character) | $12.8M | 2023 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100% | 80% | With Love | Nick Zhao (Character) | 2021 2023 |
| 56% | 90% | So Help Me Todd |
Peter Chen (Character), Unknown (Guest Star) |
2023 |
| 33% | 66% | Reef Break | Wyatt Cole (Character) | 2019 |
| 79% | 70% | Now Apocalypse | Jethro (Character) | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | 69% | Hawaii Five-0 | Kazuya Nemoto (Guest Star) | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | 92% | Con Man | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | 63% | NCIS: Los Angeles | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2016 |
| 90% | 83% | Bones | Valet (Guest Star) | 2016 |