1978-03-23 ( 47 years old ) in Jilin, China
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.
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Movies
Moon The Panda
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2024-2025湖南卫视芒果TV跨年晚会
2025-01-01
Tiger Wolf Rabbit
2024-10-01
抗战中的文艺
2024-04-19
Manifesto
2023-03-24
Steel Will
2022-09-30
The EOD Squad
2022-07-30
Island Keeper
2021-06-18
2020湖南卫视拼多多双十二超拼夜
2020-12-11
Air Strike
2018-10-26
The Founding of an Army
2017-08-01
Cock and Bull
2016-09-16
My War
2016-09-15
Night Peacock
2016-05-20
Saving Mr. Wu
2015-09-30
Beijing, New York
2015-03-06
The Boundary
2014-11-06
Police Story: Lockdown
2013-12-24
Redemption
2013-06-09
The Chef, The Actor, The Scoundrel
2013-03-29
Happy Hotel
2012-08-02
The Last Supper
2012-05-07
The Monkey King 3D: Uproar in Heaven
2012-01-12
Beginning of the Great Revival
2011-06-23
A Beautiful Life
2011-05-13
Underdog Knight 2
2011-04-01
Color Me Love
2010-10-28
Driverless
2010-07-02
We'll Meet in Heaven
2009-10-09
The Founding of a Republic
2009-09-17
Iron Men
2009-04-23
City of Life and Death
2009-04-22
The Underdog Knight
2008-11-28
Connected
2008-09-25
Dark Matter
2008-04-24
Impossible Mission: Golden Rooster
2007-10-27
Mini
2007-08-28
Blood Brothers
2007-08-16
Curse of the Golden Flower
2006-12-14
The Promise
2005-12-15
Mob Sister
2005-08-04
Sudden Lover
2005-05-19
The Ghost Inside
2005-05-06
Jasmine Women
2004-06-13
The Foliage
2004-03-04
The Floating Landscape
2003-10-16
Purple Butterfly
2003-07-04
Postmen in the Mountains
2002-07-14
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
2002-05-16
Sky Lovers
2002-01-01
Flowers
2001-12-31
Lan Yu
2001-05-18
Female Coach & Male Player
2000-08-30
A Century's Dream
1998-01-01
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