Biography on katie liu leung

Beat out over 3, girls to make her debut as 'Cho Chang' in 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.'

Parents are Kar Wai Li & Peter Leung (divorced)

Attended Hamilton College, a prestigious £a-year private school in located in Hamilton, Scotland. Since finishing school in May , Katie wants to either study art at university or embark on an acting career.

Author J.K. Rowling insisted that the actress to play Cho had to be a complete unknown.

According to her father, she had never been in a school play and went for the audition "on a whim"..

Her dad runs a successful restaurant in Glasgow & a thriving Chinese food wholesale business

Lives in a £, house

Lives with her father, two brothers and a sister in an exclusive district of Motherwell, Scotland.

She achieved pass results in English, maths, chemistry, biology and art in her Highers (Scottish high school exams).

Can speak Cantonese (Chinese dialect)

Parents are originally from Hong Kong

[September ] She plans to defer going to university so she can continue to play Cho Chang in the 'Harry Potter' films.

Has two brothers (one named Jonathan) and a younger sister (Violet)

Values her brother, Jonathan's, opinions most

If she could be given any magical power, Katie says she would like to be able to read boys' minds.

Her favorite Chinese actors are Aaron Kwok and Stephen Chow

[on acting] "I wouldn't want to be in a film because I'm Asian. I want to get respect as an actress."

[on hate sites regarding her and her role in Harry Potter] "This kind of stuff is inevitable because Dan has so many female fans - millions of them - so I'm nor surprised some of them don't like me. But I don't think it's all based on jealousy. I'm not going to satisfy everyone's preconceptions of Cho."

[on playing Cho] "If this turns out to be my only film then I think it would be pretty cool to be known as Harry Potter's first crush."

"During the scene of the Yule Ball, the g

Bursting onto the scene with her debut role as Cho Chang in the massively popular "Harry Potter" series, Katie Leung went on to prove herself as a formidable actress. Born in Scotland in , Leung's parents were from Hong Kong and mainland China respectively, and their determination as immigrants lent her tremendous inspiration, in addition to the ability to speak both Cantonese and Mandarin as a supplement to her native English.

It was due to her father's encouragement that Leung attended an open casting call for the role of Cho in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" (). She won the part over 8, other hopeful actors, and would continue to play Cho for the subsequent five films in the series, ending with 's "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2" (). Meanwhile, Leung enrolled at the University of the Arts London, graduating with a degree in photography in

Shortly before finishing there, she was cast as the lead in Jung Chang's acclaimed autobiographical play "Wild Swans," making her stage debut at the Young Vic in Leung was so moved by the experience that she decided to continue her education as a performer, enrolling at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow to study acting in She also took on more projects on both stage and screen, starring in "The World of Extreme Happiness" at the National Theatre in and in the acclaimed dramatic mini-series "One Child" (BBC, ) in

In , Leung joined co-stars Pierce Brosnan and Jackie Chan for the action thriller "The Foreigner" ().

Scottish actress (born )

Katie Leung (born 8 August ; pronounced[lœŋ˨˩]) is a Scottish actress. She first gained fame for playing Cho Chang, Harry Potter's first love interest in the Harry Potter film series, and subsequently for her roles as Caitlyn Kiramman in the Netflix animated series Arcane and Ash in the Amazon Prime Video sci-fi series The Peripheral. Among British television audiences, Leung is known for her lead roles in the miniseries dramas One Child and Strangers and her supporting role in the police dramedy Annika.

Early life

Leung was born in Dundee to Peter Leung, a Hong-Kong-born businessman and restaurateur who opened a company in Glasgow, and Kar Wai Li, a banker. Her parents divorced when she was three, and she continued living in Scotland with her father, stepmother, and siblings after her mother moved back to Hong Kong. Her father's occupation led to Leung growing up in multiple towns, including Ayr, Hamilton, and Motherwell. She attended secondary school at Hamilton College.

Career

– Harry Potter and other early roles

Leung's father saw an advertisement for a Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire casting call, and suggested she should try out. She waited four hours in line for a five-minute audition, despite feeling she had little likelihood of obtaining the role. Two weeks later, she was called back for a workshop and was cast as Cho Chang, beating over 3, other girls for the part. She has stated that her Scottish accent probably gave her an advantage in the casting, as the casting director asked the girls who attended the audition, "Is there anyone here from Scotland?", to which only Leung raised her hand.

In a interview, Leung recalled how her fondest memory of the Harry Potter experience was the first audition, because both her parents, who were separat