Blackie Chen

Charles "Blackie" Chen
Charles "Blackie" Chen
	Chen at the 5th Taipei Supau Cup Mini-Marathon in 2007
Born	2 May 1977 (age 44); Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Alma mater	Chinese Culture University
Occupation	Television host, actor, producer, co-founder/CEO of artist agency, CEO of P. League+
Years active	2000-present
Spouse(s)	Christine Fan (m. 2011)
Children	2
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	陳建州
Simplified Chinese	陈建州
Hanyu Pinyin
showTranscriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Chén Jiànzhōu
	Musical career
Also known as	Charles Chen

Charles "Blackie" Chen or Chen Chien-Chou (born 2 May 1977) is a Taiwanese television host, actor, basketball manager, entrepreneur and a former basketball player. He is also the founder and current chief executive officer of the Taiwanese professional basketball league P. League+.

Career[]

Basketball[]

Chen Chien-chou made the Chinese Taipei junior national team when he was 18 and played in the 1995 ABC Under-18 Championship, where they finished 5th.

Although only 190 cm (short for even Taiwanese basketball player standards), Chen played in the paint. He modeled his game after Charles Barkley, also an undersized big man (hence his English name of "Charles Chen"). In 1999, after missing the cut for the Chinese Taipei national basketball team, he played for the B national team at the William Jones Cup.

Later, playing for a club in the Singaporean league (where he led the league in scoring and rebounding), he tore his anterior cruciate ligament for the second time in an accident. His basketball career ended prematurely as a result.

In 2020, along with Taipei Fubon Braves, Formosa Dreamers, , and Taoyuan Airape, he founded a Taiwanese professional basketball league, P. League+, serving as the CEO and founder.

Entertainment[]

Chen became a performing artist, and a host of numerous variety shows.^[1]^[2] Because of his dark skin, he has come to be known by the nickname "Blackie", it is also because the name rhymes with Jackie Chan, in which they both are trained in judo, which Blackie obtained a blue belt. He has been in a relationship with Christine Fan for 10 years, before finally getting engaged in 2010.^[3] They were married in Taipei on May 7, 2011.

Currently the team leader and head of marketing for the Taiwan Beer Basketball Team, Chen directed a 2008 documentary entitled Attitude (態度) on the team's quest to become Super Basketball League champion. The documentary was well received and earned him widespread acclaim and accolades from the Taiwanese film industry. Many consider it the high-water mark of Taiwanese sports related documentary films.

Chen is also a television personality and host for several television shows. He is slated to play Peng Dehuai in the highly anticipated miniseries Untold Stories of 1949, to be produced for HBO Asia.

Chen, along with his wife Christine Fan, are also the co-founder and spokespeople for the Love Life campaign, after becoming a Christian, as influenced by her mother-in-law while Christine was recovering from severe depression and mild anorexia.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography[]

Film[]

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	Expect a Miracle (蘋果咬一口)
2005	Perfect Match (天生絕配)	Charlie
2007	I Wish (奇妙的旅程)	Lee Bing
2008	Attitude (態度)	himself	documentary, also producer
2009	Love Life	himself	documentary, also producer
2009	The Wedding Game (大囍事)	Tom
2010	Future X-Cops (未來警察)	Misfortune
2013	Amazing (神奇)	Blackie

Television series[]

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	Six Friends (青春六人行)
2002	Purple Corner (紫色角落)	Chang Shih-chuan
2002	Meteor Garden II (流星花園II)	Hsin
2004	Love Bird (候鳥E人)	Wang Li-hsin
2005	A Story of Soldiers (再見，忠貞二村)	Shao Chan-sheng
2005	The Sour Pack (醋溜族)
2006	Mico, Go! (米可，GO！)	Peter
2007	The Teen Age (18禁不禁)	School Superintendent
2010	Summer's Desire (泡沫之夏)	Host	cameo
2015	Lonely Gourmet (孤獨的美食家)	Charles

Variety show host[]

Channel [V] Pai Pai Zou (Chinese: 拍拍走; pinyin: Pāi Pāi Zǒu)
Trivia Party
Channel [V] Hei Se Hui Mei Mei(Chinese: 我愛黑澀會; pinyin: Wǒ Ài Hēi Sè Huì)
Channel [V] - 青春全员集合
Sanlih E-Television - 超級接班人

References[]

^ "Horsing around at the Golden Horse Awards show". The Star (Malaysia). 10 December 2008. Archived from the original on 3 June 2012. Retrieved 20 February 2011.
^ "Here comes Taiwan's very own donation scandal". People's Daily. 23 April 2010. Retrieved 20 February 2011.
^ "Blackie Chen Chien Chou will Mary Christine Fan Fan". TVB. 5 October 2010. Archived from the original on 2 December 2010. Retrieved 20 February 2011.

[1] "Horsing around at the Golden Horse Awards show". The Star (Malaysia). 10 December 2008. Archived from the original on 3 June 2012. Retrieved 20 February 2011.

[2] "Here comes Taiwan's very own donation scandal". People's Daily. 23 April 2010. Retrieved 20 February 2011.

[3] "Blackie Chen Chien Chou will Mary Christine Fan Fan". TVB. 5 October 2010. Archived from the original on 2 December 2010. Retrieved 20 February 2011.

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