Albert Tsai

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Albert Tsai (born August 5, 2004 in San José ) is an American actor . He achieved fame primarily through his role as Bert Harrison in the US sitcom Trophy Wife .

life and career

Albert Tsai was born in 2004 in the Californian city of San José, where he grew up and where he also attended school. It was there that he discovered his passion for acting at the age of seven when he took part in a school play, an interpretation of The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley Junior . During this time he was also involved in choir concerts and piano recitations and began to take acting lessons. Because of his achievements, he was also awarded an iPOP! LA Convention in Los Angeles , where he received the award for "Child Actor of the Year" in 2012. Through iPOP! was Tina Treadwell , an executive at Disney , aware of him, took him under contract and entered from now on as its manager in appearance. Nothing stood in the way of his professional acting career.

He made his first notable television appearance in the summer of 2013 in the penultimate episode of the eighth season of How I Met Your Mother , where he played Kaden , one of the children with whom Barney Stinson (played by Neil Patrick Harris ) on a laser tag -Match participates, hatches. In the same year, Alber Tsai, who speaks fluent Mandarin in addition to English, was cast as the adoptive son Bert Harrison in the Trophy Wife series. There he plays the Chinese adopted son of Pete Harrison ( Bradley Whitford ) and his second ex-wife Jackie Harrison ( Michaela Watkins ). In the sitcom's first and only season, Tsai was featured in all 22 episodes produced.

At the time of the US broadcast of the first season of Trophy Wife , the young up-and-coming actor was in the third grade and completed it mainly through a virtual school on the Internet. In 2014 there was also one episode of Hot in Cleveland and Benched . In that year he was also nominated for a Young Artist Award in the category "Best Supporting Actor in a TV Series (Comedy or Drama)", but could not prevail in this category against Max Burkholder from Parenthood . Furthermore, in 2014 there was a nomination for a Critics' Choice Television Award in the category “ Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series ”; here too he could not prevail and was defeated in this category to Andre Braugher of Brooklyn Nine-Nine .

In 2015, Tsai had a recurring role in two episodes of the ABC comedy series Fresh Off the Boat , as well as a leading role alongside Eve Sigall in the short film Grandma Money . In addition, he was in 2015 in the Multi-Camera - sitcom Dr. Ken was cast by Ken Jeong and took on one of the lead roles in the series as Dave Park . In this year , two other nominations for Young Artist Awards followed. On the one hand, he was nominated in the category "Best Guest Actor in a TV Series - Between Eleven and 13 Years" for his achievements in Trophy Wife , but could not in this category against Sloane Morgan Siegel , who played the lead and title role in Gortimer Gibbon - Mein Life on Normal Street , win. On the other hand, he was nominated for his engagement in Benched in the category "Best Guest Actor in a TV Series - Ten Years or Younger", was able to assert himself against the competition and received this award for the first time.

Filmography

  • 2013: How I Met Your Mother (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 2013–2014: Trophy Wife (TV series, 22 episodes)
  • 2014: Hot in Cleveland (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 2014: Benched (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 2015: Fresh Off the Boat (TV series, 2 episodes)
  • 2015: Grandma Money (short film)
  • since 2015: Dr. Ken (TV series)

Nominations and Awards

Nominations
Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Albert Tsai on the official website of the TV Guide (English), accessed on February 25, 2014
  2. ^ 9-Year-Old Albert Tsai on Trophy Wife and Halloween Candy , accessed February 25, 2014
  3. ↑ a b 35th Annual Young Artist Awards , accessed on November 21, 2015
  4. ↑ a b Critics' Choice TV Awards 2014: And the nominees are ... (English), accessed on November 21, 2015
  5. ↑ Albert Tsai Cast In ABC Pilot 'Dr. Ken ' , accessed November 21, 2015
  6. ↑ a b c d 36th Annual Young Artist Awards ( Memento from September 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (English), accessed on November 21, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Tsai, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 2004
PLACE OF BIRTH San Jose , California, United States