Gillian Tan

Gillian Tan

Birth : 1980-11-11, Singapore

History

Starting out as a commercial model in tropical Singapore, Jilly Tan has made a living as a professional performer since 1999, carving out a career in Singapore television, the main media in her local industry. Besides a multitude of lead episodic, guest and recurring roles on all the local network channels, she has also landed series regular roles on four different TV dramas and comedies, three in the English language (Channel i's Durian King, Kids Central's Kids Rock, Channel News Asia's Bertha's Nest) and one in Mandarin (Channel U's Hu Jia). Fortunate enough not to be stereotyped as any particular character type or specific Asian race, she has taken on various challenging roles from the start to develop versatility in her craft. Though local feature films are independent and rare, she played lead and supporting roles in three in 2007. Jilly has always supported new ideas and short films as she believes that the industry is ever evolving. Therefore she is also constantly learning and growing as an performer. She can also be seen in local plays and musicals, be it for the literary or corporate stage. Grateful for her stage debut as "Oberon" in Action Theatre's A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by the Dennis Tan, under Krishen Jit's supervision, her stage credits now include Hemang Yadav's Stage, Lionel Chok's Adultery, and Elangovan's Oh!. She has also served as a production manager, writer, youth theatre trainer, host and singer, most often in the genre of jazz. Having worked in and for Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, the USA, and of course Singapore, Jilly now intends to build a respectable acting career all over the world. Full of energy, enthusiasm, positivity, a strong sense of justice, and a corny sense of humor, Jilly relishes in the joy of just being a simple low-maintenance team player in the magical process of storytelling.

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Gillian Tan

Movies

Shadows of Fiendish Ancestress And Occasionally Parajanov on Durian Cialis
In an island perpetually suspended by Asian values, the spirit of a dionysian culture lays dormant. What stays awake is the daily repression of sensuality in the name of a constructed morality naturalised by the weight of history. Within this landscape, underground director Chew Tze Chuan continues the search for depictions of native sexuality in history which remains undocumented and only whispered about. With reference to native historical texts and the mythological and religious depiction of the 'Holy Whore', Chew constructs a mythology of a hermaphrodite who comes to town to impart a wisdom that proves to be too carnal and untimely. Years in the making and strung together with documentary-like footage of orgiastic happenings, punctuated with moments of refrain into randomness, the film soon escalates into a schizophrenic psychedelia of multicultural and polymorphous sexuality.
In the Room
Orchid's Girl
This sensitive and sensual film draws together several narratives spanning several decades, all of them transpiring in the same room of the same Singaporean hotel — and all of them involving sex.
Hitman: Agent 47
Woman in Airport (uncredited)
An assassin teams up with a woman to help her find her father and uncover the mysteries of her ancestry.
Love... And Other Bad Habits
Leona
LOVE... and other Bad Habits is a light-hearted, sometimes heartfelt, look at three different kinds of relationships in Singapore, from teen infatuation to the nuances of adult relationships.
Witchville
Henchwoman
When Prince Malachy returns to his father’s kingdom after the Crusades his first impression is that a bad harvest is the reason that the villagers are sick and hungry. But all is not as it seems and a stranger to the village, warns the new king that a dark force is the cause of their ills.
The Black Rabbit
Screenplay
Mark Watson used to lead a double life. One as a loving husband, and the other as a spy for the U.S. government. The past comes back to haunt Mark in the form of The Hatter; and international crime lord Mark had once spied on. It is here that The Hatter gives Mark the ultimate ultimatum. And Mark soon discovers that becoming a spy for The Hatter involves more than just pretending to be a fictional person... but actually becoming one.
The Black Rabbit
Mei-Li Wu
Mark Watson used to lead a double life. One as a loving husband, and the other as a spy for the U.S. government. The past comes back to haunt Mark in the form of The Hatter; and international crime lord Mark had once spied on. It is here that The Hatter gives Mark the ultimate ultimatum. And Mark soon discovers that becoming a spy for The Hatter involves more than just pretending to be a fictional person... but actually becoming one.