Katie Leung is a Scottish actress. She starred in several films. She became famous for her role as Zhou Chang in the fantasy series about Harry Potter. Awarded Best Newcomer Award, Young Scotsman, MTV Movie Awards U. S. "For the best kiss." Voted Scotland's Most Stylish Girl.
Until the age of 18, the young actress Katie Liu Leung, with great success, participated only in school theatrical performances. She became famous for the role of the beloved of the wizard Harry Potter Zhou Chang.
The path to a starring role
The biography of the future celebrity began in Motherwell in 1987. The girl was born on August 8 in the family of a practicing neurologist Kar Wai Li Leung and a businessman and lawyer Peter. Soon the parents parted. The child, along with two younger brothers and a sister, was raised by his father.
He was a fairly wealthy man. The Hong Kong native owned a shop, a hotel, a restaurant, and was also a wholesaler of Chinese food. The children didn't need anything. Since childhood, who received one of the most popular names in the country for his daughter, the head of the family instilled a love of cinema. He supported all the undertakings of the girl.
Roles in the famous epic about the adventures of a young wizard, the actress owes her father. It was he who noticed the casting announcement while watching the newspapers. He invited his daughter to be selected for the role of the girlfriend of the main character of the film "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" Zhou Chang.
The girl's appearance fully met the stated criteria. Katie was skeptical about her father's proposal. She was sure that she would not get the role. The queue of applicants was huge, it took at least four hours to wait.
The audition took all 5 minutes. Katie admitted that she had completely turned into a trade stand, as she attended the auditions of 4,500 other applicants who wanted to play the heroine. A little time passed, and the bell rang in the apartment. Leung was informed that she auditioned. The actress herself said in an interview with The Daily Record that her Scottish accent apparently played a decisive role in the casting.
Film career
Later, Katie took part in the work on other parts of the film. With Zhou Chang, the protagonist kissed for the first time in the frame in the fifth film of the story about a young wizard. But, according to the scenario, the relationship between them ended very quickly.
Already by the sixth film "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", filmed in 2009, Katie appeared in a few and unobtrusive episodes. Now she was already Potter's ex-lover. The heroine also appeared in the final part of the film entitled "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows".
Leung starred not only in the film adaptation of Rowling's work. In 2008, the film "Poirot Agatha Christie" was released. Katie got the role of Sui Tai. Her character appeared in the second episode of season 11. The series was called "Cat Among Pigeons".
According to the script, the put down detective Hercule Poirot is invited to one of the best educational institutions for girls in England, the Meadowbank School. He was entrusted with an honorable duty, the presentation of a prize for winning a tennis tournament. In addition, Poirot intends to meet with his old acquaintance, the headmistress Miss Bulstrode. She managed to gather among the staff a lot of people with their secret desires and passions. It is these inclinations that Poirot intends to study from the point of view of psychology.
However, soon the research comes to an end: one of the teachers is killed. It turns out that her death is connected with espionage. Now Poirot is busy with a very difficult investigation.
New works
In 2014, Leung was invited to the miniseries Run. There are only 4 episodes in it. She got the character Nui-Ying. The actress had a chance to play Jia-Li-Gerard in the 8th episode of the second season in the telenovela Colonel Gerard Prize from the TV cycle Father Brown.
The series, based on the works of Chesterton, takes place in the early fifties in the English village of the Cotswolds. The main character serves as a parish priest there. Father Brown is fond of solving crimes using logic and observation, understanding human nature. He tries to understand the offender and help him, if possible, realize the committed offense and repent.
Almost simultaneously, the actress took part in the work on the three-part television project "The Only Child" in the form of May Ashley. In Danny Boyle's drama T2: Trainspotting, Katie got a small role as a nurse.
In the role of the daughter of the main character, Fan, the celebrity starred in the film "Foreigner" in 2017. Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan played along with the young star in the film.
In the story, a former special forces soldier in London runs a restaurant. During a terrorist attack in a store, his only daughter is killed. Kwan decides to start looking for the culprits himself. With the help of all the techniques known to him, the hero manages to find those responsible for the explosion.
In 2018, Katie made a cameo appearance in Leading Lady Parts. Then she began work in the film "Strangers".
Time present
The girl decided to get a professional education. She became a student at the London University of the Arts.
The star told the fans at a thematic meeting that she was very worried about the then hairstyle. Her haircut is just awful and should have been changed before filming began. On the first day, the girl was amazed at the number of people on the site.
She had no cinema experience, and therefore noticeably nervous and the first months of work. Katie does not like to watch pictures about Potter. She begins to judge herself, worrying that she did not play the way she wanted.
In 2007, Katie was named Scotland's most stylish girl. According to The Scotsman and Teen Vogue, Leung's appearance is considered super attractive by most of the country's men.
Since childhood, Katy has been fond of playing the piano, drawing. These activities have remained one of the most beloved. In her free time, the girl willingly plays music and draws. She prefers not to talk about her personal life.
