Minh Ly
Biography
Minh Ly is a Canadian actor and filmmaker of Chinese/Vietnamese origins. He left Toronto to train at Studio 58 in Vancouver. Since graduating, he has worked in film, television and theatre. As a writer, his first full-length play, GA TING å®¶åº (family), has been co-produced by the frank theatre company in Vancouver, and Next Stage Theatre Festival in Toronto. It has also been published by Scirocco Drama, and was included in a Playwrights Canada Press's anthology, Q2Q: Queer Canadian Performance Texts.
Known For & Full Filmography9 Titles
Drama Series - 2003, 16 episodes • as Air Traffic Controller
Major real-life air disasters are depicted in this series. Each episode features a detailed dramatized reconstruction of the incident based on cockpit voice recorders and air traffic control transcripts, as well as eyewitnesses recounts and interviews with aviation experts.
Drama Series - 2006, 16 episodes • as Singer
Thanks to his police officer father's efforts, Shawn Spencer spent his childhood developing a keen eye for detail (and a lasting dislike of his dad). Years later, Shawn's frequent tips to the police lead to him being falsely accused of a crime he solved. Now, Shawn has no choice but to use his abilities to perpetuate his cover story: psychic crime-solving powers, all the while dragging his best friend, his dad, and the police along for the ride.
Drama Series - 2008, 16 episodes • as Dan Liang
FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter Bishop and his scheming, reluctant son Peter uncover a deadly mystery involving a series of unbelievable events and realize they may be a part of a larger, more disturbing pattern that blurs the line between science fiction and technology.
Drama Series - 2017, 16 episodes • as Construction Worker
Follow the voyages of Starfleet on their missions to discover new worlds and new life forms, and one Starfleet officer who must learn that to truly understand all things alien, you must first understand yourself.
Drama Series - 2019, 16 episodes • as Nellicut
A virus has decimated humankind. Those who survived emerged blind. Centuries later when twins are born with the mythic ability to see, their father must protect his tribe against a threatened queen.
Drama Series - 2017, 16 episodes • as Doug Feng
Detective John Cardinal attempts to uncover the mystery of what happened to the missing 13-year-old girl whose body is discovered in the shaft-head of an abandoned mine. At the same time, he comes under investigation by his new partner, Lise Delorme, a tough investigator in her own right.
Drama Series - 2012, 16 episodes • as Asian Guy #2
A unique team, consisting of a federal agent, a police officer and a conspiracy theory novelist, investigate the shocking reappearance of Alcatraz's most notorious prisoners, fifty years after they supposedly vanished.
Movie - 2024, 2h 15m • as Roger
Upon the loss of his mother, an Egyptian teenager leaves his home of Cairo to live with his father in Toronto. Parachuted into the underground queer nightlife in Toronto, he confronts his mother's death, much to his father's disapproval, by taking up the ways of drag and becoming Queen Tut.
Movie - 2019, 2h 15m • as Sam
No fats, no femmes, no Asians. Sam has heard it all before. As a single Asian gay man, he battles the dating field in Toronto's Village and addresses the racism within it's LGBTQ+ community.