# Ix Shen

Ix Shen (born 11 March 1972), also known as Shen Qing, is a Singaporean actor and film production crew. He was based in Ukraine when Russia invaded the country in 2022, and was known to provide first-hand accounts via the Internet.

## Career

Shen began his acting career in TCS (now Mediacorp) in 1995 after emerging the male winner of Star Search, a televised talent search competition. In 2000, he joined SPH MediaWorks not long after the latter was established. In late 2004 SPH MediaWorks was merged into MediaCorp and Shen was one of the 20 artistes who rejoined MediaCorp.
The 2007 television series Honour and Passion, produced by MediaCorp Channel 8 and sponsored by Singapore's Ministry of Defence (MINDEF), featured Shen in the role of a terrorist named Wu Chengyi, who holds the lives of Singaporeans to ransom. Metamorphosis, another MediaCorp Channel 8 television series aired in 2007, also featured Shen as being involved in terrorism activities.
In 2009, he starred in 2 ntv7 shows: Lion Hearts and My Destiny which was shown in Malaysia. Shen had a small role in the 2010 film Old Cow Vs Tender Grass.
In 2011, Shen returned to local screens where he starred in the series The Oath alongside Christopher Lee, Jesseca Liu and Ann Kok. As of 2017, The Oath is Shen's last television role, but he has not ruled out a return to television.
He served as an executive director for the Chinese film Wolf Warrior 2.

## Personal life

It was reported by Shin Min Daily News in 2017 that Shen has removed the "掞" (shàn) from his Chinese name, after he relocated to China.
Shen married his Ukrainian wife Natalia, a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, in 2015 and moved to Kyiv, Ukraine in 2021. When the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine first started, he did not intend to leave the city along with his family. During the war, he provided first-hand accounts and updates of the situation on the ground through online media. However, as the fighting in Kyiv intensified, he and his wife decided to evacuate westward from Kyiv, arriving at Lviv on 10 March 2022. The couple then proceeded to cross into Poland and travelled to Warsaw. In April 2022, Shen later volunteered and returned to Ukraine to help distribute humanitarian aid, and had compared the Bucha massacre, in which Ukrainian civilians of the city was killed, tortured and raped by the then occupying Russian troops, to Sook Ching, a mass killing of civilians suspected to be anti-Japanese in Singapore by Japanese occupation troops during World War II.
In June 2023, Shen released an autobiography book titled Impressions of an Invasion: A Correspondent in Ukraine which was published by Marshall Cavendish International.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Notes |
| 2007 | Men in White | |
| 2009 | The Wedding Game | |
| 2010 | Old Cow vs Tender Grass | |
| 2017 | Wolf Warrior 2 | Executive director |

### Television series

| Year | Title | Role |
| 1995 | Tales of the Third Kind (第三类剧场) | Cai Jiefu |
| 1996 | Ace Cops (妙警点三八) | |
| 1996 | Tofu Street | |
| 1996 | Marriage, Dollars and Sense (5C老公) | |
| 1996 | Tales of the Third Kind 2 (第三类剧场2 之"墙里幽魂") | Guan Minghui |
| 1996 | Three Rooms | |
| 1997 | The Accidental Hero (流氓英雄) | |
| 1997 | From the Medical File (医生档案) | |
| 1998 | Dreams – First Love (七个梦之《豆芽梦》) | Liu Xuehui |
| 1998 | The Return of the Condor Heroes | |
| 1998 | Legend of the Crow (乌丫传说) | Zong Jia |
| 1998 | My Chatty Neighbours (我家楼下口多多) | |
| 1999 | From the Medical Files 2 (医生档案II) | Marc Low |
| 1999 | Hero of the Times | |
| 1999 | Out to Win | |
| 2000 | As You Like It | |
| 2001 | Looking for Stars | |
| 2001 | Making Headlines (独家头条) | |
| 2002 | Cash is King | |
| 2002 | Feel 100% | |
| 2003 | Back to Basics (重进森林) | |
| 2004 | Money No Enough (恭喜发财) | |
| 2004 | Together Whenever (天伦) | |
| 2004 | Project J (水母计划) | |
| 2004 | Zero | |
| 2005 | Destiny | Fan Yining |
| 2005 | A Promise for Tomorrow | |
| 2006 | Angel Lover | |
| 2007 | Honour and Passion | |
| 2007 | Metamorphosis | |
| 2009 | Lion.Hearts | |
| 2009 | My Destiny | |
| 2011 | The Oath | |

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1996 | Star Awards | Best Newcomer | — | Nominated |
| 1996 | Star Awards | Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes | — | Nominated |