Gareth Yuen

Gareth Yuen
Born
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
EducationNational Institute of Dramatic Art (BFA)
Years active1992–present

Gareth Yuen is an Australian actor who portrays the character Dax Lo, the Blue Ranger on the 2007 television series Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive. He appeared at the Power Morphicon in June 2007.[1] He is a 2005 graduate of Sydney's National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA).[2]

Career

Yuen has been on many Australian films television shows ranging from Sky Trackers, Neighbours, Head Start, Bed of Roses, Kath & Kim, Underbelly, and Party Tricks. He was cast in Knowing starring Nicolas Cage and Liam Hemsworth. He was the Blue Ranger Dax Lo in Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive in 2007 and in 2011, he appeared in the New Zealand independent feature My Wedding and Other Secrets alongside Michelle Ang and Cheng Pei-pei.

In 2016, he was cast in comedian and The Daily Show senior correspondent Ronny Chieng's comedy series Ronny Chieng: International Student,[3] which was part of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Comedy Showroom where viewers vote which pilot they want green lit.

In 2019, he joined the main cast for SBS's limited series Hungry Ghosts.[4]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2004 Stiff Uniformed Officer
2007 The Jammed Lai Feature film
2007 Petit Homme Video short
2009 Knowing Donald Feature film
2009 Saved! Justin Chan Feature film
2009 Bani Ibrahim Rick Short film
2010 Matching Jack Radiologist Feature film
2011 My Wedding and Other Secrets Jason Feature film
2011 Red Orchard Son Short film
2013 The Audition Kizamu, the producer Short film
2014 Replacement Protocol Hashi Short film

Television

Year TV Title Role Notes
1992 Round the Twist Horse Episode: "Copy Cat"
1994 Sky Trackers Joe 26 episodes
1999 Queen Kat, Carmel & St Jude Andrew Episode: "Winter / Jude"
1999 Stingers Leon Episode: "Swarm"
2000 Neighbours Tom Wu Episode #1.3523
2000 Eugénie Sandler P.I. Lifesaver Episode #1.5
2001 Head Start Loc Minh Vu 22 episodes
2001–2002 Ponderosa Hop Sing 15 episodes
2002 MDA Dr. Angus Yu 2 episodes
2002 Marshall Law Quoc Le Episode: "Snorting Charlie"
2004 Kath & Kim Fong Episode: "Cactus Hour"
2006 Tripping Over Charlie 3 episodes
2007 Power Rangers Operation Overdrive Dax Lo Series regular, 32 episodes
2008 Underbelly Foreign Young Man Episode: "Scratched"
2008 City Homicide Li Phat Lung Episode: "Life After Death"
2010 Bed of Roses Chin Tsung Chi 8 episodes
2010 Lowdown Golf Administrator Episode: "A Lavish Singer"
2013 Upper Middle Bogan Lin Episode: "Behind You!"
2014 Party Tricks Lucas Fry 5 episodes
2016 Comedy Showroom: Ronny Chieng - International Student Denedict TV pilot
2016 Hunters Jeff Episode: "Telegraph"
2017 Doubt Sammie Kim Episode: "Top Dog/Underdog"
2019 Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries Chung Li Episode: "Seasoned Murder"
2019 Hungry Ghosts Paul Nguyen Main cast; limited series

References

  1. ^ Power Morphicon Archived 17 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Catch NIDA Alumni at a theatre near you". NIDA. 11 August 2022. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  3. ^ Brough, Jonathan (1 January 2000), Ronny Chieng: International Student, retrieved 19 November 2016
  4. ^ "Bryan Brown and Clare Bowen to star in new SBS drama 'Hungry Ghosts'". Guide. 13 May 2019. Retrieved 17 July 2019.


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