Jeff Locker

Jeff Locker is an actor and host based in Los Angeles, best known for appearances on Marvel's Agent Carter, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and feature film Stasis. Most recently, he hosted Mandarin-language ...Show More

Jeff Locker is an actor and host based in Los Angeles, best known for appearances on Marvel's Agent Carter, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and feature film Stasis. Most recently, he hosted Mandarin-language game show Who's Smart on ETTV America and backstage at So You Think You Can Dance for Hollywood Junket, and starred as Mandarin-speaking China consultant Peter Timms in David Henry Hwang's Chinglish at East West Players. A graduate of Yale University and East Asian Studies major with a focus in China studies (in particular, Chinese film), he was an actor and award-winning TV/radio personality in Taiwan and China for 15 years, well known for his portrayal of George W. Bush in Golden Bell-winning political satire show Mimics, Brindsley in Black Comedy (National Theatre Taiwan) and Paul in The Musical Story of Teresa TengChiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall). Hosting duties included the Golden Horse Awards and Asia-Pacific Film Festival, The Golden Bell Awards, Entertainment X-press, South Park Whoa (Channel V), Fear Challenge (the Chinese Fear Factor) and Love Radio (East Radio Shanghai). Jeff was also a best-selling author of eight Mandarin books, lecturing throughout Chinese Asia. He is a proud graduate of The Second City and iO West. US credits also include YOMYOMF Interpretations contest finalist Paper Children, Disaster L.A., Good Samaritan, and Second City Hollywood's America: Chin Up, Fly Down! and Dirty, Sexy, Funny. In early 2015, Jeff was thrilled to become the first foreigner to host CCTV's Avenue of the Stars Hollywood Lunar New Year Event. He also performs sketch and improv regularly, particularly musical improv, with groups KL Kaboombox and Pitch Please! His current focus is US China co-productions. Hide