Background
Liu Ye was born on March 23, 1978 in Changchun, Jilin, China.
刘烨
Liu Ye was born on March 23, 1978 in Changchun, Jilin, China.
Liu Ye began his acting career as a student majoring in performing arts at the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing.
Liu Ye made his debut in Postmen in the Mountains (1999) by Huo Jianqi, which won the Best Feature Film Award at China's Golden Rooster Awards and earned Liu Ye a nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He then played a young homosexual man in the film Lan Yu (2000) by Stanley Kwan, which earned him the Best Actor award at the Golden Horse Awards. Thereafter, he starred in many acclaimed films such as Sky Lovers (2002), Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002), Purple Butterfly (2003).
Liu's first Hollywood film Dark Matter. Starring opposite Meryl Streep, Liu played the role of a Chinese physics postgraduate named Liu Xing. He also took on his first villainous role in Connected (2008), a remake of the American film Cellular.
In the 2011 patriotic tribute, The Founding of a Party, it was reported that Liu Ye was required to gain 10 kg in order to play a 30-year-old Mao Zedong, a feat he achieved by eating 20 eggs a day. After filming Andrew Lau's romantic film A Beautiful Life the same year, Liu reunited with Lu Chuan in The Last Supper (2012), a US$15-million historical epic where he plays Liu Bang.
In 2014, he starred in war drama All Quiet in Peking by novelist Liu Heping. The series, based off the events of the War for Liberation in the late 1940s, earned widespread acclaim for its interesting story and historical accuracy; and was a massive success in China. He won the Golden Goblet Award for Best Actor for his performance as a car mechanic who is unexpectedly involved in a murder case in the film Cock and Bull (2016), his first award in ten years.
(In 1945 after the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Ma...)
2009(Starring Bruce Willis and Adrien Brody and featuring thri...)
2018(Blood Brothers is set in 1930s Shanghai, a flourishing mo...)
2007(Based on actual events, a Chinese university student resp...)
2007Liu Ye was named ambassador of the French Riviera in 2016. He has been previously appointed tourism ambassador for Israel in 2014.
Liu Ye married French (of Jewish descent) photographer Anais Martane in Beijing on July 5, 2009. Their first child, a son named Noé (Nuoyi in Chinese), was born on October 10, 2010 in France. A few years afterward, they had a daughter named Nina.
