Acting

Simu Liu

Born April 19, 1989 · Harbin, Heilongjiang, China (age 37)

Simu Liu (/ˈsiːmuː ˈliːjuː/ SEE-moo LEE-yoo; simplified Chinese: 刘思慕; traditional Chinese: 劉思慕; born 19 April 1989) is a Canadian actor. He rose to prominence by starring as Shang-Chi in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, debuting in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021). Liu was born in Harbin, China, and raised in Mississauga, Ontario. He has also played Paul Xie in the Omni Television c…

Known For

Avengers: Doomsday

Avengers: Doomsday · 2026

Avengers: Doomsday

MovieScience FictionAction

Beloved heroes from three distinct universes are set on a deadly collision course and face an existential threat unlike anything they've ever encountered.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings · 2021

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

MovieActionAdventure

Shang-Chi must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization.

Barbie

MovieComedyAdventure

Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans.

Pacific Rim

Pacific Rim · 2013

MovieActionScience Fiction

Using massive piloted robots to combat the alien threat, Earth's survivors take the fight to the invading alien force lurking in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless enemy, the forces of mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes who now stand as Earth's final hope against the mounting apocalypse.

Jackpot!

Jackpot! · 2024

MovieComedyAction

In the near future, a 'Grand Lottery' has been established - the catch: kill the winner before sundown to legally claim their multi-billion dollar jackpot. When Katie Kim mistakenly finds herself with the winning ticket, she reluctantly joins forces with amateur lottery protection agent Noel Cassidy who must get her to sundown in exchange for a piece of her prize.

Arthur the King

Arthur the King · 2024

Arthur the King

MovieAdventureDrama

Over the course of ten days and 435 miles, an unbreakable bond is forged between pro adventure racer Michael Light and a scrappy street dog companion dubbed Arthur. As the team is pushed to their outer limits of endurance in the race, Arthur redefines what victory, loyalty and friendship truly mean.

In Your Dreams

In Your Dreams · 2025

MovieAdventureAnimation

Stevie and her little brother Elliot journey into the wildly absurd landscape of their own dreams to ask the Sandman to grant them the perfect family.

Last Breath

Last Breath · 2025

MovieThrillerDrama

Seasoned deep-sea divers battle the raging elements to rescue their crewmate trapped hundreds of feet below the ocean's surface.

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Avengers: Doomsday

Avengers: Doomsday · 2026

Avengers: Doomsday

MovieScience FictionAction

Beloved heroes from three distinct universes are set on a deadly collision course and face an existential threat unlike anything they've ever encountered.

Shaun / Shang-Chi

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings · 2021

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

MovieActionAdventure

Shang-Chi must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization.

Shaun / Shang-Chi

Barbie

MovieComedyAdventure

Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans.

Ken

Pacific Rim

Pacific Rim · 2013

MovieActionScience Fiction

Using massive piloted robots to combat the alien threat, Earth's survivors take the fight to the invading alien force lurking in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless enemy, the forces of mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes who now stand as Earth's final hope against the mounting apocalypse.

Extra (Uncredited)

Jackpot!

Jackpot! · 2024

MovieComedyAction

In the near future, a 'Grand Lottery' has been established - the catch: kill the winner before sundown to legally claim their multi-billion dollar jackpot. When Katie Kim mistakenly finds herself with the winning ticket, she reluctantly joins forces with amateur lottery protection agent Noel Cassidy who must get her to sundown in exchange for a piece of her prize.

Louis Lewis

Arthur the King

Arthur the King · 2024

Arthur the King

MovieAdventureDrama

Over the course of ten days and 435 miles, an unbreakable bond is forged between pro adventure racer Michael Light and a scrappy street dog companion dubbed Arthur. As the team is pushed to their outer limits of endurance in the race, Arthur redefines what victory, loyalty and friendship truly mean.

Leo

In Your Dreams

In Your Dreams · 2025

MovieAdventureAnimation

Stevie and her little brother Elliot journey into the wildly absurd landscape of their own dreams to ask the Sandman to grant them the perfect family.

Dad (voice)

Last Breath

Last Breath · 2025

MovieThrillerDrama

Seasoned deep-sea divers battle the raging elements to rescue their crewmate trapped hundreds of feet below the ocean's surface.

David Yuasa

Atlas

MovieScience FictionAction

A brilliant counterterrorism analyst with a deep distrust of AI discovers it might be her only hope when a mission to capture a renegade robot goes awry.

Harlan Shepherd

Simulant

Simulant · 2023

MovieScience FictionThriller

Faye attempts to replace her newly deceased husband, Evan, with an android simulant (SIM). Although SIM Evan appears like human Evan in every way, Faye does not feel the same love for SIM Evan as it does for her. SIM Evan tries to win Faye back while at the same time being on-the-run from a government agent chasing down SIMs who have become “conscious” and could potentially be a threat to humankind.

Executive Producer

One True Loves

One True Loves · 2023

MovieRomanceComedy

Emma and Jesse are living the perfect life together, until Jesse disappears in a tragic helicopter crash on their first wedding anniversary. Four years later, Emma has found happiness again and is about to marry her best friend when Jesse resurfaces, turning her world upside down and leaving her torn between two great loves.

Executive Producer

Women Is Losers

Women Is Losers · 2021

Women Is Losers

MovieDramaHistory

In 1960s San Francisco, bright and talented catholic school girl Celina Guerrera survives a difficult home life by following the rules. That is until an indiscretion creates a series of devastating consequences. As Celina faces the compounded obstacles of being young and alone, she sets out to rise above the oppression of poverty and invest in a future that sets new precedents for the time.

Gilbert

Seven in Heaven

Seven in Heaven · 2018

Seven in Heaven

Teenagers Jude and June spend seven minutes in a locked closet and emerge in a hostile and dangerous alternate world.

Stunt Double

Meeting Mommy

Meeting Mommy · 2017

Zoe can only see her mom once a year on her birthday. On the day that she turns six, Zoe has some hard questions for her father to answer.

Executive Producer

Untitled Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Sequel

Untitled Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Sequel

Untitled Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Sequel

MovieFantasyAdventure

The sequel to the 2021 film set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) based on the Marvel comics. Plot TBA.

Shaun / Shang-Chi

Antisocial 2

Antisocial 2 · 2015

MovieHorrorThriller

Years after having her newborn child stolen from her, Sam searches a world infested with infected users from the Social Redroom website. After befriending a young girl named Bean, Sam is captured and locked in a facility dedicated to finding a cure for the Redroom Virus. Trapped and tortured, Sam tries to escape the facility before an impending update on the Redroom site hits 100% and unleashes its final phase of the attack.

Male Nurse

The Bathroom Butcher: Chapter 8

The Bathroom Butcher: Chapter 8 · 2016

The Bathroom Butcher: Chapter 8

MovieHorrorCrime

While on his way to the bathroom, a man (Simu Liu) gets attacked by an unknown trespasser.

Man

New Wave

New Wave · 2024

MovieDocumentaryMusic

An endearingly nostalgic exploration of the defiant Vietnamese new wave music scene, as well as a vulnerable and personal look at the filmmaker and her community’s revisiting of their unexamined past.

Executive Producer

Raider Origins

Raider Origins · 2013

MovieActionAdventure

Armed with only her raw instincts and physical ability to push her beyond the limits of human endurance, Lara Croft makes her ascent from a frightened young woman to a hardened survivor.

Head Mercenary

The Simpsons

The Simpsons · 1989

SeriesAnimationComedy

Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a virtual cast of thousands. Since the beginning, the series has been a pop culture icon, attracting hundreds of celebrities to guest star. The show has also made name for itself in its fearless satirical take on politics, media and American life in general.

Adult Hubert Wong (voice)

INVINCIBLE

INVINCIBLE · 2021

SeriesAnimationDrama

Mark Grayson is a normal teenager except for the fact that his father is the most powerful superhero on the planet. Shortly after his seventeenth birthday, Mark begins to develop powers of his own and enters into his father's tutelage.

Multi-Paul (voice)

Mayday

SeriesDocumentaryDrama

Major real-life air disasters are depicted in this series. Each episode features a detailed dramatized reconstruction of the incident based on cockpit voice recorders and air traffic control transcripts, as well as eyewitnesses recounts and interviews with aviation experts.

Narita Air Traffic Controller

The Expanse

The Expanse · 2015

SeriesDramaMystery

A thriller set two hundred years in the future following the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.

Lt. Paolo Mayer

What If...?

What If...? · 2021

SeriesAnimationAction & Adventure

Taking inspiration from the comic books of the same name, each episode of this animated anthology series questions, revisits and twists classic Marvel Cinematic moments.

Shang-Chi (voice)

Warehouse 13

Warehouse 13 · 2009

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyComedy

After saving the life of the President, two secret service agents - Myka Bering and Pete Lattimer - find themselves assigned to the top secret Warehouse 13. The Warehouse is a massive, top secret facility that houses dangerous and fantastical objects. Together, Pete and Myka along with fellow agents Claudia, Steve Jinks and Warehouse caretaker Artie, must recover artifacts from around the globe before they can cause catastrophic damage.

Bartender

Fresh Off the Boat

Fresh Off the Boat · 2015

Fresh Off the Boat

A '90s-set single-camera comedy about a hip-hop-loving Asian kid growing up in suburban Orlando, being raised by an immigrant father obsessed with all things American and an immigrant mother often bewildered by white culture.

Willie

Nikita

SeriesDramaAction & Adventure

Nikita will stop at nothing to expose and destroy Division, the secret U.S. agency who trained her as a spy and assassin.

Desk Officer

Dark Matter

Dark Matter · 2015

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

The six-person crew of a derelict spaceship awakens from stasis in the farthest reaches of space. Their memories wiped clean, they have no recollection of who they are or how they got on board. The only clue to their identities is a cargo bay full of weaponry and a destination: a remote mining colony that is about to become a war zone. With no idea whose side they are on, they face a deadly decision. Will these amnesiacs turn their backs on history, or will their pasts catch up with them?

Technician

Orphan Black

Orphan Black · 2013

SeriesDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

A streetwise hustler is pulled into a compelling conspiracy after witnessing the suicide of a girl who looks just like her.

Mr. Mitchell

Taken

SeriesAction & AdventureCrime

The origin story of younger, hungrier, former Green Beret Bryan Mills as he deals with a personal tragedy that shakes his world. As he fights to overcome the incident and exact revenge, Mills is pulled into a career as a deadly CIA operative, a job that awakens his very particular, and very dangerous, set of skills.

Faaron

Marvel Studios Legends

Marvel Studios Legends · 2021

Marvel Studios Legends

SeriesDocumentaryAction & Adventure

Revisit the epic heroes, villains and moments from across the MCU in preparation for the stories still to come. Each dynamic segment feeds directly into the upcoming series — setting the stage for future events. This series weaves together the many threads that constitute the unparalleled Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Shaun / Shang-Chi (archive footage) (uncredited)

Marvel Zombies

Marvel Zombies · 2025

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyAnimation

After the Avengers are overtaken by a zombie plague, a desperate group of survivors discover the key to bringing an end to the super-powered undead, racing across a dystopian landscape and risking life and limb to save their world.

Shang-Chi (voice)

Kim's Convenience

Kim's Convenience · 2016

Kim's Convenience

The funny, heartfelt story of The Kims, a Korean-Canadian family, running a convenience store in downtown Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. Kim ('Appa' and 'Umma') immigrated to Toronto in the '80s to set up shop near Regent Park and had two kids, Jung and Janet who are now young adults. However, when Jung was 16, he and Appa had a major falling out involving a physical fight, stolen money and Jung leaving home. Father and son have been estranged since.

Jung Kim

The Other Two

The Other Two · 2019

A former professional dancer, Brooke, and her brother Cary, an aspiring actor, try to find their place in the world while wrestling with their feelings about their 13-year-old brother Chase's sudden rise to internet fame.

Simu Liu

The Copenhagen Test

The Copenhagen Test · 2025

The Copenhagen Test

SeriesAction & AdventureMystery

When an analyst discovers his eyes and ears have been hacked, he's drawn into a controlled world designed by his agency to draw out their enemies.

Executive Producer

Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai

Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai · 2023

Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyComedy

Set in 1920s Shanghai, ten-year-old Sam and 12-year-old Elle return the Mogwai Gizmo back home to the lush and perilous Valley of Jade.

Chang (voice)

Dragons' Den

Dragons' Den · 2006

Canadian version of the reality show in which budding entrepreneurs pitch their business ideas to a panel of venture capitalists in the hopes of securing business financing.

Dragon

Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens

Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens · 2020

Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens

Nora Lin leans on her family as she navigates life and young adulthood in outer borough-NYC.

Garbage Boy

StoryBots: Answer Time

StoryBots: Answer Time · 2022

StoryBots: Answer Time

SeriesKidsAnimation

Got a question? The StoryBots have an answer! Join curious friends Beep, Boop, Bing, Bang and Bo on fun adventures to find facts for real kids like you.

Laid

SeriesComedyDrama

A woman finds out her former lovers are dying in unusual ways and must go back through her sex timeline to confront her past in order to move forward.

Philippe

Corner Gas Animated

Corner Gas Animated · 2018

Corner Gas Animated

SeriesAnimationComedy

It's been a few years, and there's still not a lot going on in Dog River, 40 kilometres from nowhere. But that's all about to change.

Gerald Mesmerizer (voice)

Hello (Again)

Hello (Again) · 2022

Sparks fly as a line cook crashes into a medical resident, igniting a whirlwind romance until things sour. A mischievous supernatural girl hurls the chef back in time for a second chance at love.

Writer