Gillian Tan

Acting

Gillian Tan

Born

1980-11-11 (45)

Place of birth

Singapore

Known for

Acting

Credits

8 titles

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 s…

Known for

Hitman: Agent 47 poster
5.9

An assassin teams up with a woman to help her find her father and uncover the mysteries of her ancestry.

Hitman: Agent 47

2015

In the Room poster
4.6

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.

In the Room

2015

Witchville poster
4.0

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.

Witchville

2010

After Hours poster
NR

After Hours is a Singaporean drama produced by local TV station Mediacorp. It was broadcast on Mondays at 11pm. Screen couple Utt and Linda Liao reprise their roles as Gabriel and Ellie in Chase to reunite on the small screen for After Hours. Joined by Joanne Peh and Max Loong as April and Danny, the four are best friends who tackle love, friendships and relationships in every direction in After Hours. The show picks up six months after Chase ends, where Gabriel and Ellie go on holiday together. April and Ellie are former classmates, now friends. Danny is an old friend of Gabriel’s, although they lost contact previously. Danny spent some time in the US, but returns to Singapore for good. The four of them become good friends and hang out together regularly. The situational romantic dramedy shows how four friends approach love, friendships and relationships, and it attempts to provoke the watchers with questions.

After Hours

2007

Shadows of Fiendish Ancestress And Occasionally Parajanov on Durian Cialis poster
NR

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.

Shadows of Fiendish Ancestress And Occasionally Parajanov on Durian Cialis

2017

The Black Rabbit poster
NR

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

2007

Film credits

2010s · 5 titles

Hitman: Agent 47 poster
5.9

An assassin teams up with a woman to help her find her father and uncover the mysteries of her ancestry.

Hitman: Agent 47

2015

In the Room poster
4.6

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.

In the Room

2015

Witchville poster
4.0

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.

Witchville

2010

Shadows of Fiendish Ancestress And Occasionally Parajanov on Durian Cialis poster
NR

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.

Shadows of Fiendish Ancestress And Occasionally Parajanov on Durian Cialis

2017

Love... And Other Bad Habits poster
NR

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.

Love... And Other Bad Habits

2013

Series credits

Behind the camera