Derek Siow (born February 25 1980) is a film and television actor and has appeared in Zero Dark Thirty, War Machine and The Rezort. Derek grew up in Australia which is also where he married his high school sweetheart. They reside in London, England with their two children. His father, Gerald, came from a large family of thirteen children and went to high school in Australia, later becoming an accountant. His mother, Jean, was the eldest of five and studied midwifery in London, later moving to Australia where she worked as a nurse. With a large extended family, Derek also has relatives in Asia, USA and Europe and travelled extensively in his youth. His interest in acting started at an early age with school plays when he won the lead role of Superman in Man Of Steel and using his father's camcorder, he also made short films with his classmates and screened them at school. He acted in a Chinese theatre group for two years before moving to London to pursue acting. Derek made his feature film debut as an interrogator in Zero Dark Thirty working with Kathryn Bigelow. He also appeared in the American NBC television show American Odyssey as Salter, an American special forces soldier and as US Marine Tony Song in War Machine on Netflix. He has voiced many characters for video games, film and television including Steve Gigs, a tech genius, in the Paramount Pictures animation film Capture The Flag about the US space race. He was part of the main cast in the Kids WB (Warner Bros) television program Skinner Boys: Guardians of the Lost Secrets as Edward Skinner which ran for two seasons. Next to acting, Derek has had a passion for recording music and songwriting, he was in a band for five years and has performed in Australia and UK. He learned many languages in school including Chinese, Japanese, Italian and French which aided in his range of accents and characters. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Bray Stuart
