Lim Yu-Beng

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.

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Filmography

2025

Movie
Worth the Wait
Movie - Released: 5/23/2025

2023

Alienated
Alienated
as Humpty
Movie - Released: 11/7/2023

2022

Mr. Midnight: Beware the Monsters
Mr. Midnight: Beware the Monsters
as Uncle Tan
TV - Released: 10/24/2022

2021

As You Like It
As You Like It
as Duke Fredrick / Duke Senior (voice)
Movie - Released: 11/18/2021

2019

Blood & Treasure
Blood & Treasure
as Woo-Ping
TV - Released: 5/21/2019

2014

Afterimages
Afterimages
as Agent Chai
Movie - Released: 9/11/2014

2009

Threshold
Threshold
as Omega
Movie - Released: 10/8/2009

2008

Kung Fu Killer
Kung Fu Killer
as Bai
Movie - Released: 8/17/2008
Kung Fu Killer 2
Kung Fu Killer 2
as Bai
Movie - Released: 8/17/2008

2007

Solos
Solos
as Man
Movie - Released: 4/18/2007
Marco Polo
Marco Polo
as Burmese Priest
Movie - Released: 4/6/2007
Marco Polo
Marco Polo
as Burmese Priest
TV - Released: 3/19/2007

2006

Singapore Dreaming
Singapore Dreaming
as C.K.
Movie - Released: 9/7/2006

2001

The Lost Empire
The Lost Empire
as Skeleton Demon
TV - Released: 3/11/2001

2000

2000 AD
2000 AD
as Colonel Ng
Movie - Released: 2/3/2000

1999

Anna and the King
Anna and the King
as Scarfaced leader
Movie - Released: 12/16/1999

1995

TV
Triple Nine
TV - Released: 1/1/1995