Lim Yu-Beng
Yu-Beng is a familiar face on stage and screen. He won Best Actor in 2005 for The Lover, and The Dumb Waiter, Best Supporting Actor in 2004 for Bent, and was in the Best Acting Ensemble in 2002 for Animal Farm, all for the Life! Theatre Awards.
He has played leads in the acclaimed local films Singapore Dreaming, and Solos, as well as the soon to be released Universe; and internationally in Kung Fu Killers, and The Great Wall; and supporting roles in numerous international films, including Anna and the King, and HBO Asia’s Grace. For Singapore television he has played leads in Firasat, Do Not Disturb, 9 Lives, The Second Singapore Short Story Project, and The New Home; and all four seasons of the hit series Triple 9.
Theatregoers know him from shows like Another Country, Animal Farm, Members Only, Doubt, The Lover and The Dumb Waiter, Bent, Lear, The First Emperor's Last Days, The Blue Room, The Yang Family and As If He Hears.
In the last few years he wrote and directed It’s My Life, an original teen musical, as well as 2 Houses, and Pearl of the Eastern & Oriental, both sell-out successes specially commissioned by the Georgetown Festival in Penang. In 2018, he performed an evening of his original songs as part of the Writers’ Festival. Yu-Beng’s latest television projects include 20 Days (2018), Warrior (2018), Lion Mums S3 (2019), After Love (2019), Raksasa (2019) and In The Wind (2019).
He continues to explore new ground, and works extensively as an actor, director, writer, acting coach, lighting designer, fight choreographer and whatever it takes to get the show up.
Yu-Beng is represented by FLY Entertainment.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.557 |
Birthday | 1965-11-20 |
Place of Birth | |
Also Known As | Yu Beng Lim, 林友明, |
2008
Kung Fu Killer
5/25
China is in unrest, as the Republic falls prey to Warlords like Kahn Xin, who holds an entire province hostage to the opium trade—and destroys all who...
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Kung Fu Killer
Worth the Wait
0/0
An interwoven story about life, love and modern romance
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Worth the Wait
2007
Solos
4.5/10
Inspired by true events, Solos explores relationships among three individuals who are struggling to open up their feelings towards each other. Filmmak...
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Solos
2008
Kung Fu Killer 2
6.5/3
This is the second part of the kung fu killer. China is in unrest, as the Republic falls prey to Warlords like Kahn Xin, who holds an entire province...
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Kung Fu Killer 2
2009
Threshold
0/0
In a dingy motel room that is as hot and clammy as the jungle painted on its walls, a sexual threesome has been arranged to take place. Except that th...
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Threshold
2007
Marco Polo
6.2/25
Assigned to accompany two priests on a mission to convert the court of Kublai Khan to Christianity, Marco Polo is abandoned in the mountains when the...
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Marco Polo
2000
2000 AD
6.3/34
The Y2K Bug. Real Warfare vs Electronic Gaming. Peter Tong, a carefree Hong Kong youngster, finds himself drawn into the web of a deadly espionage con...
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2000 AD
2014
Afterimages
4.7/9
A group of film students burn paper effigy cameras for the wandering spirits during the ghost month in Singapore and receive a collection of horror mo...
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Afterimages
1999
Anna and the King
6.8/766
The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teacher Anna Leonowens during the 1860s. Anna teaches...
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Anna and the King
2006
Singapore Dreaming
6.3/9
Disappointed by his failed dreams, Loh Poh Huat visits his frustrations on his family. So when he wins the lottery, everyone believes the money will d...
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Singapore Dreaming
2021
As You Like It
0/0
An animated adaptation of the famous play by William Shakespeare. It transposes the setting to a Southeast-Asian environment. Created in close collabo...
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