Simu Liu
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- We Were Dreamers
- Zhan hou Riben wen ti
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Simu Liu (/ˈsimu ˈlijuː/ SEE-moo LEE-ew; Chinese: 刘思慕; born 19 April 1989) is a Canadian actor. He is known for portraying Shang-Chi in the 2021 Marvel Cinematic Universe film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. He also played Jung Kim in the CBC Television sitcom Kim's Convenience and received nominations at the ACTRA Awards and Canadian Screen Awards for his work in Blood and Water. Liu was born in Harbin, China, on 19 April 1989, son of Zhenning and Zheng Liu. <a href="https://www.las
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5 total works indexed
- Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China
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- Densely Connected Convolutional Networks
· 2017 · cited 32,882x
- Going deeper with convolutions
· 2015 · cited 32,540x
- Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows
· 2021 · cited 27,847x
- MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space
· 2012 · cited 24,163x
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- Born
- ( 1989-04-19 ) 19 April 1989 (age 37) , Harbin , China
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Alma mater
- University of Western Ontario
- Occupations
- Actor author
- Years active
- 2012–present
- Partner s
- Allison Hsu (2022–present; engaged)
- Simplified chinese
- 刘 思慕
- Traditional chinese
- 劉 思慕
- Hanyu pinyin
- Liú Sīmù
- Ipa
- [ljo ̌ ʊ sɹ̩ ́ .mu ̂ ]
- Jyutping
- Lau4 Si1 Mou6
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- 1989-04-19
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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 film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), a role which he will reprise in Avengers: Doomsday (2026).
Liu was born in Harbin, China, and raised in Mississauga, Ontario. He has also played Paul Xie in the Omni Television crime drama series Blood and Water—for which he was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award and an ACTRA Award—Jung Kim in the CBC Television sitcom Kim's Convenience (2016–2021), and one of the Ken dolls in the fantasy comedy film Barbie (2023). In 2022, Liu published the memoir We Were Dreamers and was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world.