Ye Liu

Born: 1978-03-23

Liu Ye (Chinese: 刘烨; pinyin: Líu Yè, born March 23, 1978 in Jilin, China) is a Chinese film and television actor. Beginning his acting career when he was a 20 year old student majoring in performing arts at the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing, Liu Ye's talent in acting was apparent very early on. Liu was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a young postman in his first movie, Postmen in the Mountains, at China's Golden Rooster Awards in 1999. Shortly after his graduation, Liu Ye won Best Actor at Taiwan’s 38th Golden Horse Awards for his performance as a young gay man in the movie Lan Yu . Three years later, he clinched Best Actor with his role in the movie The Foliage at the 24th Golden Rooster Awards. In addition, several of Liu Ye’s movies have also featured in many international film festivals, for example Lan Yu, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Purple Butterfly and The Floating Landscape. Instead of making use of his good physical appearance to become a teen idol, Liu Ye has chosen the path of continuously challenging himself by taking on difficult roles. From simple, honest, and down-to-earth "peasant-like" roles, introvert and melancholic personas, to manly and Casanova roles, Liu Ye has not only convinced the audience, but also well-established international directors, of his remarkable acting skills. He has been openly praised and roped in by famous directors, such as Stanley Kwan (Lan Yu), Chen Kaige (The Promise), Zhang Yimou (Curse of the Golden Flower) and John Woo (Blood Brothers), to take part in their major movie productions. Liu Ye's first Hollywood movie Dark Matter, inspired by a true story in the early 1990s, was screened at major international film festivals in 2007. Starring with actress Meryl Streep, Liu Ye stars as the brilliant physics postgraduate "Liu Xing" from China. This movie won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and has been released in America in April 2008. Ye's first villainous role was in 2008 film Connected (where he appears a lot older than he is now), a remake of the American film Cellular. Liu Ye plays the lead character in City of Life and Death, a movie paying tribute to the victims of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre. Directed by 6th Generation Mainland Director Lu Chuan, City of Life and Death, filmed in Tianjin and in other Chinese cities such as Changchun, was released in 2009. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ye Liu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Curse of the Golden Flower

as Crown Prince Wan
Released: 2006-12-14

During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as his...

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Police Story: Lockdown

as Wu Jiang
Released: 2013-12-24

A man looking for the release of a long-time prisoner takes a police officer, his daughter, and...

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Air Strike

as Xue Gangtou
Released: 2018-10-26

An American pilot is sent to a Chinese province to teach a crew of would-be pilots how to fly...

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A Beautiful Life

as Fang Zhendong
Released: 2011-05-13

Fang Zhen Dong is a patrolling officer in Beijing who one night meets the drunk Li Pei Ru while...

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Connected

as Senior Inspector Fok
Released: 2008-09-25

A debt collector receives a call from a woman who is kidnapped by an unknown gang. He thinks it...

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Postmen in the Mountains

as Son
Released: 2002-07-14

An old postman has spent his whole life delivering mail to the mountain of Hunan and is about to...

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The Promise

as Snow Wolf
Released: 2005-12-15

An orphaned girl, driven by poverty at such a young age, makes a promise with an enchantress. In...

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Saving Mr. Wu

as Xing Feng
Released: 2015-09-30

Mr. Wu, a Hong Kong movie star, is kidnapped in Beijing by Zhang Hua's gang. The police quickly...

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The Founding of a Republic

as Old Red Army Soldiers
Released: 2009-09-17

The tale of one man who fought against the tyranny of a ruler and led his people in battle in...

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Beginning of the Great Revival

as Mao Zedong
Released: 2011-06-23

A chronicle of the events that led to the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.

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City of Life and Death

as Lu Jianxiong
Released: 2009-04-22

In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just...

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The Founding of an Army

as Mao Zedong
Released: 2017-08-01

The Founding of an Army is a 2017 Chinese film commissioned by China's government to commemorate...

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Blood Brothers

as Gang
Released: 2007-08-16

Three best friends who are barely getting by as fishermen seek their fate in 1930s Shanghai....

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Tiger Wolf Rabbit

as Zhao Zishan
Released: 2024-10-01

Three parents who have lost their children are involved with each other because of a deal; they...

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Purple Butterfly

as Szeto
Released: 2003-07-04

Ding Hui is a member of Purple Butterfly, a powerful resistance group in Japanese occupied...

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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

as Ma Jianling
Released: 2002-05-16

During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they...

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Lan Yu

as Lan Yu
Released: 2001-05-18

A love story between a country boy in Beijing to study and a wealthy businessman set against the...

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抗战中的文艺

as uncredited
Released: 2024-04-19

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The Last Supper

as Liu Bang
Released: 2012-05-07

The story of two warring generals fighting for control of China at the end of the Qin Dynasty.

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Dark Matter

as Liu Xing
Released: 2008-04-24

Liu Xing a brilliant Chinese student, arrives at University and makes the transition into...

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My War

as Sun Bei Chuan
Released: 2016-09-15

Historical drama following the Chinese volunteers sent to fight in the Korean War against the US...

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The Chef, The Actor, The Scoundrel

as The Chef
Released: 2013-03-29

World War II: a cholera epidemic ravages the streets of Beijing. A crack team of Chinese...

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Cock and Bull

as Song Lao'er
Released: 2016-09-16

When a murder occurs in a small town in Southeast China, a local mechanic, known for his...

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The Underdog Knight

as Lao San/Wang Tao
Released: 2008-11-28

Lao San is a young veteran high in Kungfu power but low in intelligence. After landing on a job...

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The Monkey King 3D: Uproar in Heaven

as 托塔李天王
Released: 2012-01-12

A completely remade animation film based on the original 1961 animation The Monkey King....

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Sky Lovers

as Jiakuan
Released: 2002-01-01

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Mob Sister

as Pilot
Released: 2005-08-04

In the macho triad world where heroes are molded from blood, brawn and brains, what place is...

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Moon The Panda

as uncredited
Released: 2025-04-09

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A Century's Dream

as uncredited
Released: 1998-01-01

Story of the Three Gorges dam project on the Yangtze River.

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Steel Will

as Zhao Tiechi
Released: 2022-09-30

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Beijing, New York

as Lenny
Released: 2015-03-06

BEIJING, NEW YORK is a touching and complex love story that bridges time, distance and culture,...

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The Boundary

as uncredited
Released: 2014-11-06

The story starts from pile murder, murderer exactly ten years ago, a woman was shot dead by...

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Jasmine Women

as Xia Du
Released: 2004-06-13

Zhang Ziyi plays the youngest of three generations of women who leads lives in Shanghai. Joan...

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The Floating Landscape

as Lit
Released: 2003-10-16

Maan has recently lost her lover, Sam, a painter who died tragically of an incurable disease....

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The EOD Squad

as Lu Yang
Released: 2022-07-30

  Told a special force in the armed police force - detonators, in a life-and-death battle with...

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Island Keeper

as Wang Jicai
Released: 2021-06-18

Wang Jicai and his wife Shihua have been guarding the small Kashan island on the Chinese border ...

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Underdog Knight 2

as Lao San / Wang Tao
Released: 2011-04-01

Lao San, is a retired Marine veteran who lives in his world of innocence and optimism due to a...

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Sudden Lover

as uncredited
Released: 2005-05-19

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Driverless

as Zhi Xiong
Released: 2010-07-02

Driverless is about three love stories that are intertwined by a car accident. It deals with...

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Color Me Love

as uncredited
Released: 2010-10-28

The plot is vaguely reminiscent of The Devil Wears Prada. The heroine is a new fashion editor...

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2020湖南卫视拼多多双十二超拼夜

as uncredited
Released: 2020-12-11

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We'll Meet in Heaven

as uncredited
Released: 2009-10-09

In China, during the Cultural Revolution, a young girl's parents are thrown in jail for ten...

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The Ghost Inside

as Fang Cheng
Released: 2005-05-06

A young mother and runs from her abusive husband with her daughter only to discover that their...

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The Foliage

as uncredited
Released: 2004-03-04

On her way back from a family visit, young female intellectual Xing-Yu meets the equally young...

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Night Peacock

as Ma Jianmin
Released: 2016-05-20

Liu Yifei plays Elso, a reputed French flutist who travels from Paris to Chengdu. Her life is...

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Manifesto

as uncredited
Released: 2023-03-24

Chen Wangdao returns from his studies in Japan and takes on the task of translating the...

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Flowers

as uncredited
Released: 2001-12-31

Chinese film directed by Mao Xiaorui.

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Mini

as Kang
Released: 2007-08-28

Tenacious and optimistic, Mini (Angelica Lee) is an acrobat at a Shanghai circus troupe. Having...

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Happy Hotel

as uncredited
Released: 2012-08-02

The film is a black comedy about a group of people who try and work their way out of an...

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Iron Men

as 刘思成
Released: 2009-04-23

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Redemption

as Xiao Likun
Released: 2013-06-09

Xiao Likun, handsome, sensitive, is fond of poetry.He has a strong ego, but his butcher family...

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Female Coach & Male Player

as uncredited
Released: 2000-08-30

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Golden Horse Awards

as Self
First aired: 1962-10-31

The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards (Chinese: 台北金馬影展; pinyin: Táiběi Jīnmǎ...

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Where Are We Going, Dad?

as uncredited
First aired: 2013-10-11

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荆轲传奇

as uncredited
First aired: 2004-12-21

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All Quiet in Peking

as 方孟敖
First aired: 2014-10-06

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Red Channel

as uncredited
First aired: 2014-05-18

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我们的挑战

as Self
First aired: 2016-12-18

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China's Got Talent

as uncredited
First aired: 2010-07-25

China's Got Talent is a Chinese reality television series on Dragon TV and a part of the Got...

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China in the Story

as 许云峰
First aired: 2019-10-13

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Old Boy

as Wu Zheng
First aired: 2018-03-04

Old Boy revolves around Wu Zheng, a pilot with a high-flying job and enviable good looks. He is...

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On the Road

as Yao Yuan
First aired: 2019-09-22

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我们生活的年代

as 袁浩东
First aired: 2008-09-24

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Troubled Times Three Brothers

as uncredited
First aired: 2013-07-01

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Romantic Life

as 钟跃民
First aired: 2004-11-30

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National Treasure’s Extraordinary Journey

as Ren Hong Yi
First aired: 2019-02-06

A story about a group of intellectuals on a mission to protect priceless treasures in order to...

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The Great Wall

as uncredited
First aired: 2020-01-04

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一针见血

as uncredited
First aired: 2006-01-01

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一个女人的史诗

as uncredited
First aired: 2009-01-10

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A Soul Haunted by Painting

as 田守信
First aired: 2003-11-20

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Flower Grandpa

as uncredited
First aired: 2014-06-15

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Love & Sword

as uncredited
First aired: 2015-04-12

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我是大美人

as 刘烨
First aired: 2023-12-24

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Bite Me!

as himself
First aired: 2016-09-22

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天和局

as 闵华堂
First aired: 2004-01-01

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How can I rescue my Love

as 龙小羽
First aired: 2002-01-01

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向天真女生投降

as 披头
First aired: 2006-01-01

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男儿本色

as Zhou Chuanxiong
First aired: 2009-12-16

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