Ken Zheng

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Ken Zheng (born April 5, 1995) is an Indonesian actor, screenwriter, and martial artist. He moved to Beijing with his sister, filmmaker Livi Zheng, when he was 10 years old.

He joined the Indonesian National Kickboxing Team in 2010 and, at 16, became the youngest kickboxing champion in Indonesia. He later won the national title again and placed fifth at the 2012 World Kickboxing Championship in Macau.

While at the Western Academy of Beijing, Zheng began making films and documentaries and helped start educational outreach for rural Chinese schools. He co-founded the Book-a-Book Foundation, which funds a mobile library for migrant schools, and created documentaries about education for migrant and impoverished children. He earned a bachelor's degree in Radio, TV and Film Production from the University of Texas at Austin.

In film, Zheng wrote, starred in, and did stunts for Brush with Danger (2014), shot in Seattle and Los Angeles. The story follows a brother and sister who are artists forced to flee home and get drawn into Seattle’s criminal underworld after a forged Van Gogh deal. Brush with Danger opened in U.S. theaters on September 19, 2014 and was distributed internationally.

More recently, his sister Livi Zheng directed the Los Angeles–set action thriller Insight (2021), starring Tony Todd, John Savage, Keith David, Madeline Zima, and Sean Patrick Flanery, with Ken Zheng in a leading role.