Ye Liu
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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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 8.594 |
Birthday | 1978-03-23 |
Place of Birth | Jilin, China |
Also Known As | 刘烨, Liu Ye, |
2005
The Promise
5.5/110
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...
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The Promise
2002
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
6.9/61
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...
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
2009
City of Life and Death
7.4/207
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...
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City of Life and Death
2008
The Underdog Knight
6.594/32
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...
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The Underdog Knight
2001
Lan Yu
7/46
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.
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Lan Yu
2003
Purple Butterfly
6.6/16
Ding Hui is a member of Purple Butterfly, a powerful resistance group in Japanese occupied Shanghai. An unexpected encounter reunites her with Itami,...
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Purple Butterfly
2004
Jasmine Women
7.615/13
Zhang Ziyi plays the youngest of three generations of women who leads lives in Shanghai. Joan Chen plays the great-grandmother, grandmother, and mothe...
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Jasmine Women
2007
Blood Brothers
5.269/26
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 gradua...
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Blood Brothers
2008
Dark Matter
5.681/58
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...
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Dark Matter
2011
Beginning of the Great Revival
4.7/35
A chronicle of the events that led to the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Beginning of the Great Revival
2007
Mini
6/2
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...
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Mini
2008
Connected
6.4/95
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...
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Connected
2010
Color Me Love
6.3/5
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...
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Color Me Love
2011
A Beautiful Life
6.1/27
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...
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A Beautiful Life
2014
The Boundary
3.3/3
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...
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The Boundary
2012
The Last Supper
6.1/25
The story of two warring generals fighting for control of China at the end of the Qin Dynasty.
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The Last Supper
1999
Postmen in the Mountains
7.6/46
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.
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Postmen in the Mountains
2012
Happy Hotel
1/1
The film is a black comedy about a group of people who try and work their way out of an unfortunate set of circumstances.
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Happy Hotel
2005
Mob Sister
4.625/3
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...
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Mob Sister
2012
The Monkey King 3D: Uproar in Heaven
7.8/6
A completely remade animation film based on the original 1961 animation The Monkey King. Mythical ancient China. Born from some magic stones that fell...
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The Monkey King 3D: Uproar in Heaven
2013
Police Story: Lockdown
6.158/348
A man looking for the release of a long-time prisoner takes a police officer, his daughter, and a group of strangers hostage.
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Police Story: Lockdown
2009
We'll Meet in Heaven
7.4/9
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...
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We'll Meet in Heaven
2003
The Floating Landscape
5.9/7
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...
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The Floating Landscape
2003
The Foliage
6/1
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...
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The Foliage
2009
The Founding of a Republic
5.316/57
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.
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The Founding of a Republic
2013
The Chef, The Actor, The Scoundrel
6.027/37
World War II: a cholera epidemic ravages the streets of Beijing. A crack team of Chinese intelligence agents kidnap a Japanese general and biochemist...
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The Chef, The Actor, The Scoundrel
2010
Driverless
6.2/5
Driverless is about three love stories that are intertwined by a car accident. It deals with several relationship issues, including the infamous seven...
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Driverless
2015
Saving Mr. Wu
6.28/92
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...
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Saving Mr. Wu
2016
Night Peacock
4.7/6
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...
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Night Peacock
2005
Sudden Lover
0/0
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Sudden Lover
2006
Curse of the Golden Flower
6.823/703
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...
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Curse of the Golden Flower
2011
Underdog Knight 2
6.521/24
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...
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Underdog Knight 2
2013
Redemption
4/1
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...
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Redemption
2016
My War
6/16
Historical drama following the Chinese volunteers sent to fight in the Korean War against the US where they experienced life and death and established...
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My War
2005
The Ghost Inside
0/0
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...
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The Ghost Inside
2016
Cock and Bull
6.703/37
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...
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Cock and Bull
2002
Sky Lovers
6/5
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Sky Lovers
2017
The Founding of an Army
4.6/18
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...
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The Founding of an Army
2001
Flowers
0/0
Chinese film directed by Mao Xiaorui.
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Flowers
2018
Air Strike
4.796/225
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.
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Air Strike
2015
Beijing, New York
3/1
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Beijing, New York
2020
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2009
Iron Men
0/0
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Iron Men
2021
Island Keeper
6.5/2
Wang Jicai and his wife Shihua have been guarding the small Kashan island on the Chinese border for 32 years.
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Island Keeper
2022
The EOD Squad
5/2
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 "silent...
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The EOD Squad
2022
Steel Will
0/0
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Steel Will
2000
Female Coach & Male Player
0/0
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1998
A Century's Dream
0/0
Story of the Three Gorges dam project on the Yangtze River.
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A Century's Dream
2023
Manifesto
5/1
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.
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Manifesto
2025
Moon le Panda
0/0
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Tiger Wolf Road
0/0
The person who loses their child must become a tiger and a wolf, with a heart as hard as iron. Otherwise, you will destroy it and achieve nothing.
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Tiger Wolf Road
2024
抗战中的文艺
0/0
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