Chinese-Canadian actress and director Fei Ren brought to life complex, dynamic and diverse range of roles. Her performances have been nominated for multiple awards in TV, film, and theatre. She is best known for starring as a deadly assassin in Netflix's crime action film Polar, starrring opposite Katheryn Winnick, Mads Mikkelsen, and Matt Lucas. Her performance got her a nomination for Best Supporting Performance in Leo Award (2020). She also starred in the feminist dark comedy web series This Blows, created by Bruce McCulloch, where her portrayal of a quirky hacker landed a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting performance (2019). She produced and lead the play Lungs by Duncan Macmillan, which got her a nomination for Best Leading Performance in Jessie Richardson Theatre Award (2020). Born and raised in Zhengzhou, China, Ren moved to Canada to complete her Psychology degree at the University of British Columbia, while working internationally as a model, appeared in hundreds of runways and editorials. Since graduation, Ren has been training intensively in the craft of acting and clowning in Vancouver and New York.
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Biography from TMDB.
- Zhengzhou, Henan, China
- Actor, also producer
- 11 on MovieCove · 16 credits in all
What are Fei Ren's films like?
Across their 5 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Morality and Survival.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 2
Light 0 · Serious 2 · Dark 2
A split, not a type: Grounded 2 · Stylized 1 · Heightened 1
Gentle 0 · Charged 1 · Intense 3
Steady 1 · Shifting 3 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 3 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 0
Slow burn 0 · Even-paced 1 · Relentless 3
Casual 1 · Engaged 3 · Full focus 0
A split, not a type: Easy watch 1 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 2
Resolved 3 · Open-ended 1 · Ambiguous 0
Roles they play
- Shapeshifteras Mei Mei in The Romeo Section (2015)
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet2
- Ambiguous3
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Fei Ren's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 10 of their 11 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Prime Video (5).
Subscription and free streaming for Fei Ren's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
16 credits, 11 with a MovieCove page.
Surf Bay, West Coast (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)
Get Fast(2024)
Midcredits score: 17th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 26th percentile of all films
All the Lost Ones(2024)
Midcredits score: 12th percentile of all films
Rip in Time(2022)
Midcredits score: 70th percentile of all films
Kung Fu(2021)
Midcredits score: 23rd percentile of all shows
Polar(2019)
Midcredits score: 50th percentile of all films
SuperGrid(2018)
Midcredits score: 10th percentile of all films
Lucifer(2016)
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all shows
The Magicians(2015)
Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all shows
The Romeo Section(2015)
Midcredits score: 31st percentile of all shows
Little Red Flowers (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)
Supernatural(2005)
Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all shows
Slant (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
The Bryce Lee Story (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
The Freeze (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
Star power in the 78th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 14 titles, 11 of them dated from 2005 to 2026; peak year 2018.
Film career
Peak 2018 · steadily prominent in film for years. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.
- 2018Screen debut· SuperGrid
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Fei Ren's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 22nd percentile, the median of all 6; across a limited sample of 4 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 20th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up3
- 50th to 74th2
- 25th to 49th2
- Below 25th4
Shape of the crowd
6 of their 11 titles are Mixed.
- Universally Loved2
- Crowd Pleaser3
- Mixed6
Reviewers score the acting 53/100 in their films, across 4 reviewed titles; fans 69, detractors 35. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Fei Ren work with?
People who share at least 2 of Fei Ren's MovieCove titles; Anthony Grant shares the most, 2.
- Anthony GrantShared titles: All the Lost Ones (2024), Polar (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Anthony Grant
