Liu Ye

Acting

Liu Ye

Born 1978-03-23 · 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ye Liu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Curse of the Golden Flower poster
6.9

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. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself.

Curse of the Golden Flower

2006

Police Story: Lockdown poster
6.2

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

Police Story: Lockdown

2013

Lan Yu poster
7.2

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.

Lan Yu

2001

Air Strike poster
5.1

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.

Air Strike

2018

City of Life and Death poster
7.4

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 China. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a six week period wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed.

City of Life and Death

2009

The Promise poster
5.6

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, she will never be with the man she loves. This spell cannot be broken unless the impossible happens: snow falling in spring and the dead coming back to life. Now a grown and beautiful princess, she regrets her promise, for all of the men she's loved has always been met with tragedy.

The Promise

2005

Moon the Panda poster
6.7

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 hustle and bustle of the city, he finds himself immersed in nature and secretly befriends a panda cub he names Moon. Together, Tian and Moon embark on a journey of discovery and overcoming challenges. The boy is forced to confront his fears and, in the process, learns valuable lessons about courage, respect, and the profound bond between humankind and nature. This experience profoundly transforms Tian's life and fosters an unexpected family reconciliation.

Moon the Panda

2025

Crossing poster
5.4

A retelling of the Red Army crossing the Chishui River four times to outmaneuver 400,000 enemy troops.

Crossing

2026

The Founding of an Army poster
5.2

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 Liberation Army.

The Founding of an Army

2017

Tiger Wolf Rabbit poster
6.7

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, and each of them, with their own purposes, set out on the road of seeking revenge for their children, and staged a bizarre and dangerous killing in the barren land.

Tiger Wolf Rabbit

2024

The Founding of a Republic poster
5.3

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.

The Founding of a Republic

2009

Connected poster
6.4

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.

Connected

2008

A Beautiful Life poster
6.3

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 estate agent from Hong Kong who has vowed to make her fortune in the cosmoplitan Beijing, but is caught up in the complexities of life and ends up becoming a mistress of a married man.

A Beautiful Life

2011

Saving Mr. Wu poster
6.4

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 detectives in charge have only twenty hours before the deadline.

Saving Mr. Wu

2015

Postmen in the Mountains poster
7.7

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.

Postmen in the Mountains

1999

The Last Supper poster
6.2

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

The Last Supper

2012

Beginning of the Great Revival poster
4.7

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

Beginning of the Great Revival

2011

Dark Matter poster
5.6

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 cosmology group working to create a model of the origins of the universe. He is obsessed with the study of dark matter and a theory that conflicts with the group's model. When he begins to make breakthroughs of his own, he encounters obstructions.

Dark Matter

2008

Kang Zhan Zhong De Wen Yi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kang Zhan Zhong De Wen Yi

2024

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress poster
6.8

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 granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

2002

The Monkey King 3D: Uproar in Heaven poster
7.4

A completely remade animation film based on the original 1961 animation The Monkey King. Mythical ancient China. Born from some magic stones that fell to Earth a long time ago when Goddess Nüwa mended the sky, Sun Wukong, aka Monkey King, sets off on his first adventure to gain a worthy weapon. This earns the attention of the Jade Emperor of Heaven.

The Monkey King 3D: Uproar in Heaven

2012

2020湖南卫视拼多多双十二超拼夜 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

2020湖南卫视拼多多双十二超拼夜

2020

2026湖南卫视芒果TV春节联欢晚会 poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

2026湖南卫视芒果TV春节联欢晚会

2026

Blood Brothers poster
5.3

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 gradually find their innocence corrupted as they fall into the deepest depths of the criminal underworld.

Blood Brothers

2007