Kent worked as a radio host in Santa Barbara in the 1980s before leaving to Hong Kong, where he worked as a model. Tomas Tang, who owned Filmark International, gave him a small role in the film Super Platoon. A few weeks later, when one of the main actors left Hong Kong, he was given a bigger role in the film Crocodile Fury while appearing in other Filmark productions in 1987 and 1988. After 1988, he did more modeling work and acting, appearing in a Taiwanese soap opera in 1992. Kent now teaches English at universities and writes books, living with his wife in Prague, Czechia.