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Jesseca Liu was born in Langkawi, Malaysia.
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First known as Lao Chew Yen, she finished second for a Malaysian beauty contest in 2001.
Career
Previously, she was a contracted artiste under MediaCorp, now belonging to HIM International Music. She began modelling after graduating from Saito Academy in 2001. Languages often spoken by Liu are Cantonese, Mandarin, English and Malay.
Liu began acting in Malaysia with a few Chinese drama productions at Singapore.
She then began a career as a full-time actress in Singapore. She snagged a role in the 100-episode drama series Portrait of Home in 2005.
She played a Vietnamese bride Ruan Mianmian, and starred opposite veteran thespians Adrian Pang and Louise Lee. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress and Most Popular Newcomer Award categories for the Star Awards 2005 ceremony with her role as Ruan Mianmian in Portrait of Home.
Her first lead role was Ding Yirou in Rhapsody in Blue in 2006.
She was given opportunities to play lead roles thereafter. She filmed a movie by MediaCorp Raintree Pictures back in 2007 and it was scheduled to be screened in the second quarter of 2008. However, the screening of the movie was put to a halt due to copyright problems.
Liu released a book diary, Jesseca"s Diary (Chinese: 绚日记) in December 2007.
In March 2011, she starred in the Channel U blockbuster of the year Secrets Foreign Sale, alongside Christopher Lee and Lin Meijiao. She played Jiaqi, a private investigator.
The 13-episode serial was produced by Wawa productions and gained much favourable response from the viewers. In October 2011, she went on to play the role of a medical doctor Yang Minfei in the medical-themed series The Oath, which is one of the highest rated series of the year.
The drama also starred Christopher Lee, Ann Kok and Ix Shen.
Departure from MediaCorp
Liu"s contract with Mediacorp expired in May 2010. She then went on to sign a contract with HIM International Music (Singapore) in the same year. Her first production under her new company was Channel U"s 2010 feature film, Lost and Foundation 《小孩·狗》 with Taiwan"s popular child star Xiao Xiao Bin and Taiwanese idol James Wen Sheng Hao.
The film garnered the highest viewership amongst the other two feature films aired, starring Mediacorp actresses Joanne Peh and Felicia Chinese respectively.
She then filmed Mediacorp Channel U"s 2011 blockbuster drama, Secrets Foreign Sale 《拍·卖》 as the lead actress alongside Mediacorp actors Christopher Lee and Thomas Ong. The drama was well-accepted by the audience in Singapore.
Together with Olivia Ong, she sang the theme song for The Silver Tribute Charity Night which was aired "live" on MediaCorp Channel 8 on 5 June 2011. This marked her first appearance on a live programme since Star Awards 2010.
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