Ray Tan

	Ray Tan
Traditional Chinese	陳學沿
Simplified Chinese	陈学沿
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Chén Xuéyán

Ray Tan
Ray Tan
Born	Ray Tan Seok Yuan; 15 March 1989 (age 37); Johor, Johor Bahru, Malaysia
💼 Occupation	Actor, Director, Dancer, Businessman
📆 Years active	2008–present
Known for	Recurring Court Eunuch (from Marco Polo), Founder & CEO of SAN MediaCo

Ray Tan (陳學沿 Ray Tan Seok Yuan; born March 15, 1989), better known as Raytansy, is a Malaysian actor and director of Chinese descent. He is best known for his role as recurring Mongolian Court Eunuch in Netflix Marco Polo (TV series) (2014). He is also founder and Chief Executive Officer of SAN MediaCo (Southeast Asian Network Media Company) Malaysia based media news and entertainment company.

Early life

Ray was born in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. His paternal grandparents are from Fuzhou, China while his father, Dragan Tan and mother, Flora Tee, was born and raised in Malaysia.

He later enrolled in a college and majored in multimedia studies. After graduates he work in Tv & Film industries as a programme editor and designer at Kuala Lumpur

Ray is fluent in Mandarin, English and Malay. He currently lives in Singapore.

Career

While as a film crew member, Ray began his career incidentally after he join into Netflix Marco Polo (TV series) casting department who were looking for a cast role to do a Mongolian for a look over, Ray booked the recurring court eunuch as Kublai Khan emperor in Marco Polo (TV series) with all the main cast filming in Pinewood Studio Iskandar Malaysia . This started his first acting career in Hollywood. Shortly afterwards he began acting at Warner Bros. Pictures Crazy Rich Asians (Film) in Singapore.

Filmography

TVC

Year	Title
2017	Fizz Up My Hood - Coca-Cola Singapore
2017	Find Tea^[1] - Toast Box Singapore

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2017	Crazy Rich Asians	VIP Guest	Singapore Wedding Ceremony

Television

Year	Title		Role	Notes
2014	Marco Polo	The Weinstein Company	Court Eunuch	Recurring 3 episodes (Season 1)
2017	My Teacher Is A Thug	Mediacorp Channel 8	Bicycle Rider	1 episodes
2017	118 Reunion II	Mediacorp Channel 8	Zikang's Brother	Final Episodes
2019	All Is Well (你那邊怎樣·我這邊OK)	Taiwan Television & Mediacorp Channel 8	Bartender	1 episodes

TV Show

Year	Title		Notes
2005	Go!Go!Trendy專訪	Astro Television	Soul Rhythm Dance Crew
2007	PSC Night普威之夜	Mediacorp Channel 8	Soul Rhythm Dance Crew
2009	PSC Night普威之夜	Mediacorp Channel 8	Soul Rhythm Dance Crew

Awards

Spotlite Teenidol 2010 "Top6" in Malaysia, "Most Popular" Awards in Malaysia, "Top1" in Johor, 2010

SAN MediaCo (2019 - present)

As of July 2019, SAN MediaCo -The Southeast Asia Network Media Company. SAN News provides 11 Southeast Asia including Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, Timor-Leste , Cambodia and the latest world breaking news.

Origins

Ray felt that acting was not his only passion even after landing roles. His passion was to change the industry’s standards and expectations of tv & film. In 2019, he set up SAN MediaCo to push for better recognition and representation of Southeast Asia market. He advocated for standard practices in the entertainment industry. SAN MediaCo is one of the Southeast Asia’s largest media news and entertainment company.

References

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External links

Ray Tan's official blog
Ray Tan on Instagram
Ray Tan on Facebook
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Ray Tan on IMDb

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