Actor

Beau Sia

February 6, 1976

Beau Sia is a Tony Award-winning slam poet. Born to Chinese immigrants from the Philippines in Ohio and raised in Oklahoma City, he moved to New York City for college, earning a BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. In New York, he began performing at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, which led to his joining the 1996 Nuyorican National Poetry Slam team and being featured in the influential slam poetry documentary SlamNation. Sia is a two-time National Poetry Slam champion and the author of Well Played (2020), The Undisputed Greatest Writer of All Time (2010), and A Night Without Armor II: The Revenge (1998), a satiric response to Jewel’s poetry collection A Night Without Armor (1999).

Notable work

6.6
Hitch (2005)
as Drugstore Clerk
6.5
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
as Late Night Comedian
5.8
Ricki and the Flash (2015)
as Desmond
6.3
Rachel Getting Married (2008)
as Wedding Czar

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