Huai-Yun Zhan

Actor · Born August 21, 1998 (28) · Taiwan

Zhan Huai-yun (Chinese: 詹懷雲; born 21 August 1998) is a Taiwanese actor best known for his debut role as Lefty in the historical comedy film Meeting Dr. Sun (2013), which earned him a nomination for Best Newcomer in the 9th Asian Film Awards. He stepped away from showbiz in 2016 to pursue a career in rapping, and returned to acting in 2023 with the Netflix political thriller series Wave Makers. In 2024, he starred in another Netflix series Born for the Spotlight.

What are Huai-Yun Zhan's films like?

Across a limited sample of 4 Motif titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Morality.

Themes

share of theme weight

Self

44%

Morality

34%

Bonds

13%

Society

9%

Identity2 Betrayal2

Roles they play

1 analyzed role

Heroas Ye Zijie (Jay) in Lovesick (2025)

Moods and endings

endings shown from 5 titles

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Melancholic

3

Tense

2

Hopeful

1

Contemplative

2

Bittersweet

1

Other

2

How their films linger

Bittersweet4 Thought-provoking2

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 Huai-Yun Zhan's films?

As of October 24, 2026, all 5 Motif titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Netflix (4).

Subscription and free streaming for Huai-Yun Zhan's titles on Motif; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Motif 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, 5 with a Motif page.

Million-Follower Detective(2026)
Show 8 episodes · as Chih-Ping Kao
Motif score: 20th percentile of all shows
Where the River Flows (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2025)
as Wei
Lovesick(2025)
as Ye Zijie / Jay
Motif score: 80th percentile of all films
Penguin Girl (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2025)
as Adley
Born for the Spotlight(2024)
Show 12 episodes · as Liu Meng
Motif score: 86th percentile of all shows
I Can See You Shine (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2024)
Show 8 episodes · as Ku Sheng-hsin
Urban Horror (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2024)
Show 1 episode · Actor
The Accidental Influencer(2024)
Show 17 episodes · as Wilson Ho
Motif score: 55th percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)
After School (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2023)
as Zhang Zhengheng
Wave Makers(2023)
Show 8 episodes · as Kai-kai
Motif score: 96th percentile of all shows
Guess Who's Coming to Act (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2022)
Show 1 episode · Actor
Penguin Girl (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2022)
as Adley
The Sweet Place (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2016)
Actor
Find the Money Dog (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2015)
Actor
Meeting Dr. Sun (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2014)
as Lefty
Good Job (not in the Motif catalog yet)
Show 1 episode · Actor

Career shape

Star power in the 29^th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 16 titles, 15 of them dated from 2014 to 2026.

Biggest box office

Lovesick (2025)

$1.9M worldwide

Highest rated

Wave Makers (2023)

Motif 96^th

Film career

2023Screen debut· Wave Makers

By role

only this rolewith another role

Acting16 of 16 · 80^th

By decade

2010s3 · acting2020s12 · acting

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 Motif score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on Motif, shown from 5 scored.

Who does Huai-Yun Zhan work with?

People who share at least 2 of Huai-Yun Zhan's Motif titles; Ying-Hsuan Hsieh shares the most, 2.

Ying-Hsuan Hsieh2 titles See all 2 shared titles with Ying-Hsuan Hsieh
Ray Hou2 titles See all 2 shared titles with Ray Hou