Liu Ye (Chinese: 刘烨; pinyin: LÃu Yè, born 23 March 1978) is a
Chinese actor. He ranked 78th on Forbes China Celebrity 100 list in
2013, 48th in 2014, and 89th in 2015.Liu began his acting career as a
student majoring in performing arts at the Central Academy of Drama in
Beijing. He made his debut in Postmen in the Mountains (1999) by Huo
Jianqi, which won the Best Feature Film Award at China's Golden
Rooster Awards and earned Liu a nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
Liu then played a young homosexual man in the film Lan Yu (2000) by
Stanley Kwan, which earned him the Best Actor award at the Golden
Horse Awards. Thereafter, Liu starred in many acclaimed films such as
Sky Lovers (2002), which won him the Artistic Contribution Award at
the Tokyo International Film Festival;, Balzac and the Little Chinese
Seamstress (2002), which helped Liu break into Hollywood. as well as
the avant-garde drama film Purple Butterfly (2003), which competed in
the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.Liu's first Hollywood film Dark Matter,
based on the 1991 University of Iowa shooting, was filmed in 2006.
Starring opposite Meryl Streep, Liu played the role of a Chinese
physics postgraduate named Liu Xing. Dark Matter won the Alfred P.
Sloan Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and was released in the
United States in April 2008.Regarded by many as one of mainland's top
actors, Liu has appeared on screen in versatile roles, such as a cocky
young man in Stanley Kwan's The Foliage (2003), which won him the Best
Actor award at the Golden Rooster Awards; a menacing snow wolf in Chen
Kaige's The Promise (2005) and a scheming prince in Zhang Yimou's
Curse of the Golden Flower (2006); his performance nabbed him a
nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards. He
shed off his melancholic and weak on-screen image to play tougher and
more complex roles such as a gangster in John Woo's Blood Brothers
(2007) and Ding Sheng's Underdog Knight (2008), where he played a
retired and mentally ill soldier. Liu also took on his first
villainous role in Connected (2008), a remake of the American film
Cellular.
Chinese actor. He ranked 78th on Forbes China Celebrity 100 list in
2013, 48th in 2014, and 89th in 2015.Liu began his acting career as a
student majoring in performing arts at the Central Academy of Drama in
Beijing. He made his debut in Postmen in the Mountains (1999) by Huo
Jianqi, which won the Best Feature Film Award at China's Golden
Rooster Awards and earned Liu a nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
Liu then played a young homosexual man in the film Lan Yu (2000) by
Stanley Kwan, which earned him the Best Actor award at the Golden
Horse Awards. Thereafter, Liu starred in many acclaimed films such as
Sky Lovers (2002), which won him the Artistic Contribution Award at
the Tokyo International Film Festival;, Balzac and the Little Chinese
Seamstress (2002), which helped Liu break into Hollywood. as well as
the avant-garde drama film Purple Butterfly (2003), which competed in
the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.Liu's first Hollywood film Dark Matter,
based on the 1991 University of Iowa shooting, was filmed in 2006.
Starring opposite Meryl Streep, Liu played the role of a Chinese
physics postgraduate named Liu Xing. Dark Matter won the Alfred P.
Sloan Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and was released in the
United States in April 2008.Regarded by many as one of mainland's top
actors, Liu has appeared on screen in versatile roles, such as a cocky
young man in Stanley Kwan's The Foliage (2003), which won him the Best
Actor award at the Golden Rooster Awards; a menacing snow wolf in Chen
Kaige's The Promise (2005) and a scheming prince in Zhang Yimou's
Curse of the Golden Flower (2006); his performance nabbed him a
nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards. He
shed off his melancholic and weak on-screen image to play tougher and
more complex roles such as a gangster in John Woo's Blood Brothers
(2007) and Ding Sheng's Underdog Knight (2008), where he played a
retired and mentally ill soldier. Liu also took on his first
villainous role in Connected (2008), a remake of the American film
Cellular.
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