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Liu Ye
Born: 23rd Mar 1978 Jilin, China
Dept: Acting
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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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 90
Film: 57 (63%)
Television: 33 (37%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Music, Talk, Adventure, Fantasy, Animation, Action & Adventure, Horror, Documentary
Filmography
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After a Qing-dynasty gold crown vanishes from a stone coffin, obsessed detective Yang Lianian and his irreverent rookie partner Liu Peanut uncover a c ... view
Character:
Yang Linian (1 ep.)
Apr 2026 (first aired)
Eighteen years after a robbery case went cold, businessman Meng Guangcai is arrested when a new clue emerges. The key to solving the case is Zhu Helai ... view
Character:
Zhu Helai (16 ep.)
Original title: Moon le Panda
2025
Due to his poor academic performance, twelve-year-old Tian is sent to live with his grandmother in the remote mountains of Sichuan. Far from the hustl ... view
Character:
Fu Zhao
Original title: 浴火之路
2024
Three parents who have lost their children are involved with each other because of a deal; they have no soul in their eyes and hatred in their hearts, ... view
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Zhao Zishan
Original title: 望道
2023
Chen Wangdao returns from his studies in Japan and takes on the task of translating the Communist Manifesto, which changes the course of his life. ... view
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Original title: 排爆手
2022
Told a special force in the armed police force - detonators, in a life-and-death battle with drug traffickers at the border, while in the "silen ... view
Character:
Lu Yang
Original title: 守岛人
2021
Wang Jicai and his wife Shihua have been guarding the small Kashan island on the Chinese border for 32 years. ... view
Character:
Wang Jicai
Feb 2019 (first aired)
Ren Hongyi, a Kuomintang officer, and Zhou Ruosi, a cultural expert from the Forbidden City. Entrusted with safeguarding China's priceless treasures, ... view
Character:
Ren Hongyi (42 ep.)
2018
An American pilot is sent to a Chinese province to teach a crew of would-be pilots how to fly war planes against the Japanese during World War II. ... view
Character:
Xue Gangtou
Mar 2018 (first aired)
Old Boy revolves around Wu Zheng, a pilot with a high-flying job and enviable good looks. He is more than capable of taking responsibility for the liv ... view
Character:
Wu Zheng (47 ep.)
Original title: 建军大业
2017
The Founding of an Army is a 2017 Chinese film commissioned by China's government to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the People's ... view
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Mao Zedong
Original title: 追凶者也
2016
When a murder occurs in a small town in Southeast China, a local mechanic, known for his honesty, comes under suspicion. When the police target him t ... view
Character:
Song Lao'er
Original title: 我的战争
2016
Historical drama following the Chinese volunteers sent to fight in the Korean War against the US where they experienced life and death and established ... view
Character:
Sun Beichuan
Original title: 夜孔雀
2016
Liu Yifei plays Elso, a reputed French flutist who travels from Paris to Chengdu. Her life is compared to the one of a night peacock, an eternal confl ... view
Character:
Ma Jianmin
Original title: 解救吾先生
2015
Mr. Wu, a Hong Kong movie star, is kidnapped in Beijing by Zhang Hua's gang. The police quickly form a task force and begin the search, ignoring that ... view
Character:
Xing Feng
Original title: 北京纽约
2015
BEIJING, NEW YORK is a touching and complex love story that bridges time, distance and culture, intertwining the lives of two Chinese childhood friend ... view
Character:
Lenny
2014
The story starts from pile murder, murderer exactly ten years ago, a woman was shot dead by police. A decade ago, it has not found an important clue s ... view
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Oct 2014 (first aired)
In 1948, as China's civil war reaches a critical point and the Kuomintang's economy collapses, Communist agent Fang Meng'ao goes undercover as an Air ... view
Character:
方孟敖 (53 ep.)
Original title: 警察故事2013
2013
A man looking for the release of a long-time prisoner takes a police officer, his daughter, and a group of strangers hostage. ... view
Character:
Wu Jiang
Original title: 杀戒
2013
Xiao Likun, handsome, sensitive, is fond of poetry.He has a strong ego, but his butcher family background makes him ashamed. Jiang Yue'e is a kinder-g ... view
Character:
Xiao Likun
Original title: 厨子戏子痞子
2013
World War II: a cholera epidemic ravages the streets of Beijing. A crack team of Chinese intelligence agents kidnap a Japanese general and biochemist ... view
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The Chef
Original title: 乐翻天
2012
The film is a black comedy about a group of people who try and work their way out of an unfortunate set of circumstances. ... view
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Original title: 王的盛宴
2012
The story of two warring generals fighting for control of China at the end of the Qin Dynasty. ... view
Character:
Liu Bang
Original title: 大闹天宫
2012
A completely remade animation film based on the original 1961 animation The Monkey King. Mythical ancient China. Born from some magic stones that fell ... view
Character:
托塔李天王
Original title: 建党伟业
2011
A chronicle of the events that led to the founding of the Chinese Communist Party. ... view
Character:
Mao Zedong
Original title: 不再让你孤单
2011
Fang Zhen Dong is a patrolling officer in Beijing who one night meets the drunk Li Pei Ru while singing karaoke at the KTV place. Li Pei Ru is a real ... view
Character:
Fang Zhendong
Original title: 硬汉2：奉陪到底
2011
Lao San, is a retired Marine veteran who lives in his world of innocence and optimism due to a brain injury. He assumes the role of a dedicated vigila ... view
Character:
Lao San / Wang Tao
Original title: 我的天空
2010
The plot is vaguely reminiscent of The Devil Wears Prada. The heroine is a new fashion editor who has to deal with her female boss and boyfriend, an a ... view
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Jul 2010 (first aired)
China's Got Talent is a Chinese reality television series on Dragon TV and a part of the Got Talent franchise, hosted by Cheng Lei. It is a talent sho ... view
Character:
Self - Judge (10 ep.)
Original title: 无人驾驶
2010
Driverless is about three love stories that are intertwined by a car accident. It deals with several relationship issues, including the infamous seven ... view
Character:
Zhi Xiong
Original title: 我们天上见
2009
In China, during the Cultural Revolution, a young girl's parents are thrown in jail for ten years. She is raised by her grandfather. He introduces her ... view
Character:
Original title: 建国大业
2009
The tale of one man who fought against the tyranny of a ruler and led his people in battle in the ultimate sacrifice for his country. ... view
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Old Red Army Soldiers
Original title: 铁人
2009
Set in China's oil fields, the film follows enthusiastic young workers pushing forward the nation’s modernization. Liu Sicheng (Liu Ye), a top perfo ... view
Character:
刘思成
Original title: 南京!南京!
2009
In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just captured Nanjing, then-capital of the Republic of Chin ... view
Character:
Lu Jianxiong
Original title: 硬汉
2008
Lao San is a young veteran high in Kungfu power but low in intelligence. After landing on a job as a body guard for a wealthy antique collector, Lao S ... view
Character:
Lao San/Wang Tao
Original title: 保持通話
2008
A debt collector receives a call from a woman who is kidnapped by an unknown gang. He thinks it is a joke but soon, he realises that it is not a prank ... view
Character:
Senior Inspector Fok
Sep 2008 (first aired)
Set during China’s 1990s economic reform era, a group of former college friends reunite in Beijing to chase success. As they navigate the challenges ... view
Character:
袁浩东 (30 ep.)
2008
Liu Xing a brilliant Chinese student, arrives at University and makes the transition into American life with the help of Joanna Silver. Xing joins a c ... view
Character:
Liu Xing
Original title: 非常金鸡任务
2007
China's top stars come together in a short film spoofing popular movies of the past year during the opening of the Chinese academy awards ceremony (ak ... view
Character:
Liu Ye
Original title: 米尼
2007
Tenacious and optimistic, Mini (Angelica Lee) is an acrobat at a Shanghai circus troupe. Having lost both her parents at a young age, Mini has never h ... view
Character:
Kang
Original title: 天堂口
2007
Three best friends who are barely getting by as fishermen seek their fate in 1930s Shanghai. Upon arriving in the bustling city, the naïve trio gradu ... view
Character:
Gang
Original title: 滿城盡帶黃金甲
2006
During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as his wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest ... view
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Crown Prince Wan
Original title: 无极
2005
An orphaned girl, driven by poverty at such a young age, makes a promise with an enchantress. In return for beauty and the admiration of every man, sh ... view
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Snow Wolf
Original title: 阿嫂
2005
In the macho triad world where heroes are molded from blood, brawn and brains, what place is there for a defenseless girl? The only exception to the r ... view
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Pilot
Original title: 疑神疑鬼
2005
A young mother and runs from her abusive husband with her daughter only to discover that their new apartment may be haunted by the spirit of a woman w ... view
Character:
Fang Cheng
Nov 2004 (first aired)
During the Chinese Cultural Revolution, a group of students whose lives is changed by political chaos. As they navigate violence, love, and rebellion, ... view
Character:
钟跃民 (32 ep.)
Original title: 茉莉花开
2004
Zhang Ziyi plays the youngest of three generations of women who leads lives in Shanghai. Joan Chen plays the great-grandmother, grandmother, and mothe ... view
Character:
Xia Du
Original title: 美人草
2004
On her way back from a family visit, young female intellectual Xing-Yu meets the equally young and rebellious Si-Mong and the two fall in love. When X ... view
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Nov 2003 (first aired)
Pan Yuliang struggles as a courtesan to a concubine as she navigates her path to success in the art world as a painter. ... view
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Tian Shouxin (30 ep.)
Original title: 戀之風景
2003
Maan has recently lost her lover, Sam, a painter who died tragically of an incurable disease. Before his death, he was remembering a beautiful landsca ... view
Character:
Lit
Original title: 紫蝴蝶
2003
Ding Hui is a member of Purple Butterfly, a powerful resistance group in Japanese occupied Shanghai. An unexpected encounter reunites her with Itami, ... view
Character:
Szeto
Original title: 巴尔扎克与小裁缝
2002
During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor's beautiful granddaugh ... view
Character:
Ma Jianling
Original title: 天上的恋人
2002
In a picturesque Guangxi village, deaf Wang Jiakuan falls for Zhu Ling, who is already in love with someone else. Cai Yuzhen, visiting to find her bro ... view
Character:
Jiakuan
Jan 2002 (first aired)
Han Ding, a young lawyer falls for Luo Jingjing, a woman whose privileged life unravels after her father's death and financial ruin. When her former l ... view
Character:
Long Xiaoyu (23 ep.)
Original title: 蓝宇
2001
A love story between a country boy in Beijing to study and a wealthy businessman set against the backdrop of the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident. ... view
Character:
Lan Yu
Original title: 那山那人那狗
1999
An old postman has spent his whole life delivering mail to the mountain of Hunan and is about to retire, his only son due to take over his duties. ... view
Character:
Son
Character:
Feb 1983 (first aired)
The CMG Spring Festival Gala (formerly known as the CCTV New Year's Gala; commonly abbreviated in Chinese as Chunwan or 春晚) is a Chinese New Year ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
