Katie Leung
Katie Leung | |
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 Katie Leung in 2020 at the German Comic Con Hame Edeetion | |
| Born | Katie Liu Leung 8 August 1987 Mitherwall, Scotland |
| Naitionality | Scottish |
| Thrift | Actress |
| Years active | 2004-present |
| Kent for | Cho Chang in Harry Potter film series |
| Bairns | 1 |
Katie Liu Leung (born 8 August 1987) is an actress fae Scotland[1]. She's weel-kent fir playin Cho Chang, Harry Potter's first luve-interest in the Harry Potter pictur series.[2] In 2012 she haed her stage debut as Jung Chang in the play Wild Swans. She's intae pentin an photographie, an did Airt an Design at the University o the Airts London.
Early years
[eedit | eedit soorce]Leung wis born in Mitherwall, Nor Lanrickshire. She wis at Hamilton College high schuil in Sooth Lanrickshire. Her fowks are fae Hong Kong but got divorced wen she wis 3. Her da stertit a business in Glesga an her maw wis a banker.
Career
[eedit | eedit soorce]2005-2007: Harry Potter
[eedit | eedit soorce]Leung's da seen an advert fir a Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire casting caw, an telt her she should gie it a go. She thoucht she hud nae chance, but waitit 4 oor onywey. The audition wis anly 5 meenit lang. She wis cawed back fir a wirkshop 2 week efter, an they gied her the role o Cho Chang. 3000 ither lassies had tried oot fir the pert anaw. In a Daily Record interview later she telt thaim she thoucht she'd hud an advantage ower the ither lassies, coz the castin director hud asked "is onywan here fae Scotland?" (pit ower fae Inglis) an she wis the ainly wan tae pit up her haund.[3] She said in 2011 that o the hale Harry Potter experience, her favrit pairt wis the furst audition, sin her fowks cam alang the gither despite bein separatit: "It wis a real braw maument sin ma fowks hudnae seen wan anither fir a lang, lang while" (pit ower fae Inglis).[4]
Warner Bros sent her ower tae China tae heeze up Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.[5]
She wis in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix an aw, an hud an onscreen kiss wi Daniel Radcliffe (Harry) that got a fair amoont ae press.[6] [2] She wis playin Harrys furst luve-interest. Maist fans were fine wi this, but some stertit an "A hate Katie" wabsteid an some fowk postit racist messages oan fan wabsteids that fair upset her at the time.[7][8][9]
Leung's vyce wis uised in the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix an the Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince gemmes.
2007-present
[eedit | eedit soorce]In Julie 2007, Leung wis cast by Gold Label Records, a dochter firm o EMI fae Hong Kong, tae be the lead wummin in Leo Ku's "My Home, My Love" (Cheenese: 愛回家; Jyutping: "Oi3 Wui4 Gaa1"); literally "Luve, Retour Hame") muisic video. It wis filmed in London while Leung wis heezin up the new Harry Potter film. Ku said her actin wis "professional" an "mature".
Leung wis Hsui Tai in an episode o ITV1's Agatha Christie's Poirot cried "Cat Among the Pigeons," that hud its telly debut on ITV on 21 September 2008.
Leung wis gied the title o Scotlands maist stylie lassie, an the title o the brawist Scotswummin in 2007 fae Scotland on Sunday.[10] She's been writ aboot in Teen Vogue an Evening Standard an aw.
Efter the Harry Potter films, Leung wisnae shair gin she wantit tae stey in the actin business, but did a coorse in drama at the Royal Conservatoire o Scotland onywey an wis inspirt.[11]
In December 2011 she wis gien the role o Jung Chang in Jung Chang's autobiographical play Wild Swans.[12] It hud its warld premiere in Cambridge, Massachusetts in Februar 2012. Whan compairin pictur an live performances, she said: "The obvious challenge is o coorse daen it richt first go, an that wis unco excitin fir me" (pit ower fae Inglis).
It wis confirmt in Juin 2012 that Leung wis tae be in the Channel 4 fower-pairt drama series cried Run as main chairacter Ying. Ying wis an illegal ingang fae China that selt pirated DVDs an nicked mobiles in Brixton, London, in order tae gie hersel a life in England. Houiver, she hud tae pey back her dets tae the Snakehead gang that hud smuggled her intae the kintra.[13]
In 2013, Leung wis in The World of Extreme Happiness in The Shed at the National Theatre. Her chairacter wis cried Sunny, an she played alangside Vera Chok wha wis the chairacter Xiao Li, a migrant wirker. The show wis aboot the warld o migrant wirkers thats formin in modren China.[14]
Leung wis in the BBC's Father Brown crime drama series.
In Apryle 2014 it wis annunced that Leung wid be Mei, a Chinese wean wha wis adoptit by an American mither an a British faither, in the TV miniseries One Child. In it, her chairacter gets cawed back tae Guangzhou, whaur Mei wis born, whan her birth mither needs help tae save her son. The series wis co-produced by BBC Drama an Sundance TV fir BBC Two. Production stertit in Mey 2014 in London an Hong Kong, and the show cam oot in Februar 2016. Catherine Gee fae The Daily Telegraph said her performance wis "beautifully understated."[15][16]
At the end o 2016, Leung wis in the Tony Kushner play The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures (iHo) that wis at the Hampstead Theatre, London.[17]
In 2017 Leung co-starred wi Jackie Chan an Pierce Brosnan in The Foreigner as Fan, Chan's chairacter's dochter.
Personal life
[eedit | eedit soorce]Leung pit off goin tae airt college an university tae film Harry Potter an the Order o the Phoenix. She later said she hudnae been shuir aboot steyin in actin efter Harry Potter, and wantit tae study airt an design.[2]
In 2007 she gaed a haund tae the The Prince's Trust chairitie o Scotland tae raise £100,000 by lenchin a bairn's airt competeetion, an donatit wan o her ain pentins that selt fir £960.[18]
Leung is intae photographie, an in 2009 she wis wan o twa celebrities wha gaed a photae tae Sightsavers International's I:Click 2009 competeetion. Sightsavers International is a chairitie that ettles tae help blind fowk in puir kintras.[19]
Leung wis ettlin tae dae her photographie degree whan she wis in Wild Swans. Efter the play endit, she said she wid gang tae the Royal Conservatoire o Scotland, Glesga.
Leung haes fluent Cantonese an some Mandarin an aw.
She went tae the waddin o Afshan Azad, a Harry Potter castmate, in August 2018.
In 2022, she gied birth tae a boy cried Wolf.[20]
Filmographie
[eedit | eedit soorce]Film
[eedit | eedit soorce]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Cho Chang | Film |
| 2007 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Cho Chang | Film an video gemm |
| 2009 | Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince | Cho Chang | Film an video gemm |
| 2011 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 | Cho Chang | Film |
| 2017 | T2 Trainspotting | Nurse | Film |
| 2017 | The Foreigner | Fan | Film |
Telly
[eedit | eedit soorce]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Hsui Tai | Series 11, Episode 2: "Cat Among the Pigeons." |
| 2013 | Run | Ying | TV miniseries (4 Episodes) |
| 2014 | Father Brown | Jia-Li Gerard | TV production (Series 2, Episode 8: "The Prize of Colonel Gerard") |
| 2014 | One Child | Mei Ashley | TV miniseries (3 Episodes) |
| 2018 | Strangers | Lau Chen | TV series |
| 2019 | Chimerica | Liuli | TV miniseries (4 Episodes) |
| 2019 | Moominvalley | Too-Ticky | Animated series; Vyce |
| 2020 | The Nest | Eleanor | TV miniseries (5 Episodes) |
| 2020 | Roadkill | Margaret Moore | TV miniseries (3 Episodes) |
Stage
[eedit | eedit soorce]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Wild Swans | Jung Chang | |
| 2013 | The World of Extreme Happiness | Sunny | National Theatre, London |
| 2015 | You For Me For You | Junhee | Royal Court Theatre: Jerwood Theatre Upstairs |
| 2016 | The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures (iHo) | Sooze | Hampstead Theatre, London |
| 2017 | Snow in Midsummer | Dou Ti | Swan Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon |
| 2019 | White Pearl | Sunny | Royal Court Theatre, London |
Awards
[eedit | eedit soorce]2006
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Outstandin Newcomer Award, Asian Excellence Awards (Top 4)
- Nominee fir Young Scots Award
2007
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Scotland's Maist Stylie Lassie
- No. 80 in Cosmogirl's Hot 100 List
2008
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Nominee (alang wi Daniel Radcliffe) fir Best Kiss 2008 at the MTV Movie Awards US
2014
[eedit | eedit soorce]- BAFTA Breakthrough Brits 2014
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ "Katie Leung". AskMen. Archived frae the original on 21 Mairch 2016.
- ↑ a b c "BBC - Movies - interview - Katie Leung". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 27 Mairch 2025.
- ↑ "KISS ME KATIE - The Daily Record". web.archive.org. 10 Juin 2011. Archived frae the original on 10 Juin 2011. Retrieved 27 Mairch 2025.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
- ↑ "Lights, camera ... magic". The Herald (in Inglis). 3 Apryle 2011. Retrieved 27 Mairch 2025.
- ↑ Pride, William M.; Hughes, Robert J.; Kapoor, Jack R. (2008). Business. Houghton Mifflin. p. 540. ISBN 978-0-618-75314-7.
- ↑ "katie leung fan ~ press and video archive ... part of katieleungfan.com". web.archive.org. 19 August 2011. Archived frae the original on 19 August 2011. Retrieved 27 Mairch 2025.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
- ↑ "Katie Leung on life after Harry Potter and battling racist stereotypes". The Herald (in Inglis). 13 Februar 2016. Retrieved 27 Mairch 2025.
- ↑ "Racists slam 'Harry Potter' actress - UPI.com". UPI (in Inglis). Retrieved 27 Mairch 2025.
- ↑ Moreau, Jordan (11 Mairch 2021). "'Harry Potter' Actor Katie Leung Says She Was Told to Deny Receiving Racist Attacks From Fans". Variety (in Inglis). Retrieved 27 Mairch 2025.
- ↑ "Scotland on Sunday - Entertainment - Harry Potter actress flies from Hogwarts to top of eligibles list". web.archive.org. 21 November 2007. Archived frae the original on 21 November 2007. Retrieved 27 Mairch 2025.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
- ↑ "Leung nearly quit acting after Potter". Express.co.uk (in Inglis). 6 December 2011. Retrieved 27 Mairch 2025.
- ↑ "Harry Potter actress Katie Leung lands debut stage role". BBC News (in Inglis). 7 December 2011. Retrieved 27 Mairch 2025.
- ↑ "Run cast announcement - Channel 4 - Info - Press". web.archive.org. 25 Juin 2012. Archived frae the original on 25 Juin 2012. Retrieved 27 Mairch 2025.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
- ↑ Avila, Stephanie Chang (4 October 2013). "The World Of Extreme Happiness: A Story Of China's Urban Migrants". Culture Trip (in Inglis). Retrieved 27 Mairch 2025.
- ↑ Tatlow, Didi Kirsten (30 November 2014). "Opaque Justice in China". The New York Times (in Inglis). ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 27 Mairch 2025.
- ↑ Gee, Catherine (17 Februar 2016). "Gripping drama One Child exposes how fragile China is - review". The Telegraph (in Inglis). ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 27 Mairch 2025.
- ↑ Theatre 1, London (19 August 2016). "Tamsin Greig stars in The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures". LondonTheatre1 (in Inglis). Retrieved 27 Mairch 2025.
- ↑ "Potter star Katie helps raise £100,000 - Scotsman.com News". web.archive.org. 5 December 2008. Archived frae the original on 5 December 2008. Retrieved 27 Mairch 2025.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
- ↑ "Snapper Emily celebrates contest success". Bucks Free Press (in Inglis). 3 December 2009. Retrieved 27 Mairch 2025.
- ↑ Hibbs, James. "Annika's Katie Leung on how real-life pregnancy was written into season 2 | Radio Times". www.radiotimes.com. Retrieved 11 Mey 2025.