Sunny Chen

Sunny Chen is a Canadian actor filmmaker and singersongwriter At 6 years old Sunny immigrated from Nanjing China to unceded Coast Salish lands They finished high school in Langley BC As a teen Sunny traveled throughout North America to perform at music festivals with their school choirs and concert band At 17 years old Sunny moved to Vancouver and completed their BA in Psychology and English literature at the University of British Columbia In 2019 Sunny won the leading role of Ho Shee in Karin Lees period drama Tsekoo Cha Ke The Girl with Big Feet 2021 playing a Chinese Canadian immigrant settler in the late 1800s For this complex role Sunny prepared her dialogue in Toisan a Chinese dialect originating from southern Guangdong province and Chinook an Indigenous Pacific Northwest trade language Sunny portrayed Lisa in Cheer Squad Secrets 2020