Liu Yifei has appeared multiple times on Forbes China Celebrity 100 list and was named one of the New Four Dan actresses of China in 2009.
23 Facts About Liu Yifei
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Liu Yifei is widely known as "Fairy Sister" in China.
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In 2020, Liu became known to international audiences for starring as the titular character in the Disney live-action film Mulan.
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Liu Yifei was born in Tongji Hospital in Wuhan, Hubei as An Feng.
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Liu Yifei's father is An Shaokang, a 1st Secretary in the Chinese Embassy in France and a French language university professor from Beijing, and her mother is Liu Xiaoli, a dancer and stage performer from Hubei.
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Liu Yifei's parents divorced when she was 10 years old, and she was raised solely by her mother.
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Liu Yifei's godfather is Chen Jinfei, the Chairman of Beijing Tongchan Investment Group.
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In 1997, when Liu Yifei was 10 years old, she and her mother immigrated to the United States.
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Liu Yifei lived in Queens, New York City where she attended Louis Pasteur Middle School 67.
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Several weeks after returning to China, Liu Yifei was accepted into the Performance Institute of Beijing Film Academy at age 15 and graduated in 2006.
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Immediately after her admittance into the Beijing Film Academy, Liu Yifei received offers to star in various television series.
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In 2005, Liu Yifei starred in Chinese Paladin, a fantasy action drama adapted from the role-playing game The Legend of Sword and Fairy.
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Liu Yifei played Golden Sparrow, an orphan seeking revenge against her parents' killer.
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Liu Yifei subsequently reprised her role in two other installments of the film series.
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Liu Yifei won the Best Actress award at the fifth Macau International Movie Festival for her role as Lingju and Diaochan in the historical film The Assassins.
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In 2014, Liu Yifei collaborated with Korean actor-singer Rain for the romance film For Love or Money, based on Hong Kong novelist Amy Cheung's 2006 novel of the same name.
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In 2016, Liu Yifei starred in romance film Night Peacock, a Chinese-France co-production directed by Dai Sijie.
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Liu Yifei then starred in the youth romance film So Young 2: Never Gone.
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In 2017, Liu Yifei starred in romantic fantasy film Once Upon a Time by award-winning director Anthony LaMolinara and Zhao Xiaoding.
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The film premiered at the Shanghai International Film Festival as the opening film, and Liu Yifei was nominated as Best Actress.
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In November 2017, Liu Yifei was cast as Mulan in the live-action adaptation of the 1998 Disney animated film, which was released in 2020 to mixed reviews.
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In March 2021, Liu Yifei cut ties with clothing brand Adidas over its support for the Better Cotton Initiative - a group funded by the United States government via USAID - after the trade body pulled out of Xinjiang, China citing concerns of forced labour involving Uighur Muslims.
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Liu Yifei released her first Japanese single "Mayonaka no Door" with Sony Music on July 19,2006.