Liu Ye (simplified Chinese: 刘烨; traditional Chinese: 劉燁) (born March 23, 1978 in Jilin, China) is a Chinese film and television actor.
Beginning his acting career when he was a 20 year old student majoring in performing arts at the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing, Liu Ye's talent in acting was apparent very early on. Liu was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a young postman in his first movie, Postmen in the Mountains, at Ch...
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Liu Ye (simplified Chinese: 刘烨; traditional Chinese: 劉燁) (born March 23, 1978 in Jilin, China) is a Chinese film and television actor.
Beginning his acting career when he was a 20 year old student majoring in performing arts at the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing, Liu Ye's talent in acting was apparent very early on. Liu was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a young postman in his first movie, Postmen in the Mountains, at China's Golden Rooster Awards in 1999. Shortly after his graduation, Liu Ye won Best Actor at Taiwan’s 38th Golden Horse Awards for his bold and splendid performance as a gentle, sensitive young gay man in the movie Lan Yu in 2001, in which he caused a sensation as the first-ever adult Chinese male to be shown frontally naked in a mainland China film (as he reclined on a bed), with his pubic hair, testicles and fully circumcised penis completely exposed, and shown in a prolonged shot. Three years later, he clinched Best Actor with his role in...
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