Katie Leung

At 36 years old, Katie Leung has this physical status:

Katie Liu Leung (born 8th August 1987) is a Scottish film, television, and stage actress.

In the Harry Potter film series, she played Cho Chang, the first love interest for lead character Harry Potter.

Leung made her stage debut in the play Wild Swans in 2012.

Leung, a student at the University of the Arts, London, has an interest in painting and photography, and he has studied art and design.

Early life

Leung was born in Dundee, Scotland, but Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, is often mistaken for her birthplace because she spent the majority of her childhood there. She attended secondary school at Hamilton College, South Lanarkshire. She is of Cantonese descent, and her father, Peter Leung, established a Hong Kong businessman and restaurateur, and Kar Wai Li, a Hong Kong banker, was a Hong Kong businesswoman and restaurateur. After her mother moved back to Hong Kong, Leung's parents divorced when she was three years old, and she and her father, old mother, and siblings remained in Scotland.

Personal life

Leung delayed plans to film Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, despite Leung's decision to return to art college and university to film Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Leung had said she was undecided about going into acting after Harry Potter and wanted to attend university to study art and design during this time. She helped The Prince's Trust charity raise £100,000 by launching a children's art competition and then donating one of her own works that was auctioned for £960.

Leung has also expressed a passion for photography. She donated a photograph to the I:Click 2009 competition in 2009, with proceeds going to combat blindness in poor countries.

Leung, who appeared in Wild Swans, went on to complete her photography degree at Edinburgh College of Art. She then attended the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow, where she completed the BA in Acting.

Leung was present at the wedding of another former Harry Potter cast member, Afshan Azad, on August 19, 2018.

In January 2022, Leung's essay "Getting into Character" was published in the book East Side Voices: Essays Celebrating East and Southeast Asian Identity in Britain. Leung's essay explored how her ethnicity influenced her growing up and her acting career.

She can converse in Cantonese and some Mandarin.

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Career

Leung's father was alerted of a Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire casting call and suggested she try it out. Despite the fact that she had no intention of being accepted for the role, she waited four hours in line for a five-minute audition. Cho Chang was called back for a workshop two weeks later and was cast as Cho Chang, defeating over 3,000 others for the role. In retrospect, she said in an interview with the Daily Record that her Scottish accent certainly gave her an edge in the casting, as the casting director asked the girls, "Is there anybody here from Scotland?" "To which only Leung raised her hand."

Leung said in a 2011 interview that her fondest memory of the Harry Potter experience was the first audition because her parents, who were separated at the time, went with her. "It was a really nice moment because my parents hadn't seen each other for a long, long time," Leung remembered. Warner Bros. sent Leung to China in the film's second week of release, in a rare move toward a market that was not used to frequent celebrity visits at the time.

She reprised her role in the subsequent films in the series, most notably Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, in which her character had the honor of being Harry Potter's first romance. As a result, Leung and Daniel Radcliffe (Harry) produced an on-screen kiss that attracted a lot of media attention. Although Leung was welcomed warmly by most fans of the film, a few fans, jealous of Cho's film friendship with Harry, created an "I Hate Katie" website in reaction. In addition, many racial messages on fan pages were distressing to Leung at the time. Leung revealed in March 2021 that she had received racial abuse from fans while filming Harry Potter. She revealed that she had been ordered by her publicists to deny what was going on if anyone asked, when she appeared on an episode of the Chinese Chippy Girl podcast.

In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Leung's voice was used.

Leung was voted Scotland's most fashionable female and the hottest Scotswoman in 2007 by The Scotsman. She has also been featured in Teen Vogue and the Evening Standard. Leo Ku. led the female lead in the music video Love Coming Home (), which was produced by Gold Label Records, a EMI Hong Kong affiliate, in July 2007. When promoting the new Harry Potter film in London, Leung shot the video in London. Ku characterized Leung's behavior as "professional" and "mature."

Leung played Hsui Tai in ITV1's "Cat Among the Pigeons," her first appearance outside of Harry Potter.

Leung said she was unsure if she wanted to continue a career in acting after the end of the Harry Potter films. However, she was inspired after attending a drama course at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Jung Chang was granted the role of Jung Chang in Chang's autobiographical play Wild Swans in December 2011. "The obvious challenge is of course getting it right the first time, which is curiously thrilling for me," Leung said in comparing film to live performances. In February 2012, the play premiere in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was held before returning to Motherwell.

Leung would appear in the Channel 4 four-part drama series Run as the leading female immigrant who sells pirate DVDs and robs phones on Brixton's streets in the hopes of building a life for herself in the UK, but first must pay her debts to the Snakeheads who smuggled her into Britain in June 2012.

Leung appeared in The World of Extreme Happiness, a play about the lives of migrant workers in China's rapidly growing modern era. Sunny, a female migrant worker, was on stage in The Shed at the National Theatre. Leung appeared in a new episode of the BBC crime drama series Father Brown.

In April 2014, it was revealed that Leung would play Mei, a first-born Chinese girl adopted by an American mother and British father in the TV miniseries One Child. When her birth mother frantically needs her help in saving her son, she is told to return to her birthplace, Guangzhou. The series was co-produced with Sundance television by BBC Drama Productions for BBC Two. It was expected to debut in May 2014 in London and Hong Kong, and then aired in February 2016. Catherine Gee of The Daily Telegraph praised Leung's appearance as "beautifully understated."

Leung appeared in The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism, a Key to the Scriptures, at the Hampstead Theatre in London in late 2016. She co-starred with Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan in The Foreigner in 2017, portraying Fan, Chan's daughter. Lau Chen was the supporting role in the ITV drama Strangers, also known as White Dragon.

Leung narrated the short audio story Off Course for Bibliophone in June 2021. The tale was the winner of a charity writing competition that raised funds for the Scottish Refugee Council.

In the Amazon Prime Video series The Peripheral, Leung has since appeared in recurring roles as DC Blair Ferguson, the voice of Caitlyn in the Netflix series Arcane, and Ash.

She is also attached to a forthcoming She appears in a forthcoming Paraphrasedoutput version of Simon Beckett's book The Chemistry of Death, with her role unspecified.

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