---
name: "Havana Rose Liu"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/havana-rose-liu"
fi1m_id: "havana-rose-liu"
imdb_id: "nm10023988"
tmdb_id: 2378813
wikidata_id: "Q105303128"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "30 September 1997"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 66
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-09-23T14:24:33.298662+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Havana Rose Liu

## Identity

Havana Rose Liu

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/havana-rose-liu
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** havana-rose-liu
- **IMDb ID:** nm10023988
- **TMDB ID:** 2378813
- **Wikidata ID:** Q105303128
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_Rose_Liu, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105303128, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10023988/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2378813

Actor. Born 30 September 1997 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 30 September 1997, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- **Active:** 2023–present
- **Also known as:** Havana Liu
- **Average Fi1m score:** 66, as actor, over 5 titles
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 66 to 68 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 4 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 4 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Comedy 3, Drama 3, Music 2, Thriller 2, Crime 1, Horror 1
- **Screen time:** 9 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $31m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_Rose_Liu, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105303128, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10023988/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2378813

## Coming up

- *The Debut* (2026-12-10), as Twisty — [page](https://film.one/film/the-debut.md)
- *Elden Ring* (2028-03-03)

## Fi1m on Havana Rose Liu

> Havana Rose Liu has spent five years being the most alert person in other people's scenes. *Tuner* shows what that looks like when a script notices her; two other films from the same year show what happens when it does not.

In *Tuner* (2026), Ruthie is written as the love interest of Leo Woodall's piano tuner and not a great deal else, and Havana Rose Liu declines to play it that way. She listens to Niki the way he listens to a lock, and their scenes come out as two adults working each other out rather than the romance a thriller feels obliged to include. We had the odd experience of wanting the film to leave its safes alone and go back to her, which is not what a supporting part is supposed to do to you. She is always thinking on screen, and the camera keeps catching her at it.

She came to acting sideways. A casting director spotted her while she was still a student at NYU, and she did modelling and background work before *Mayday* (2021) gave her a first film part. *No Exit* (2022) handed her a lead in a thriller, and the notices for her were kinder than the notices for the film, which is a pattern that has held. *Bottoms* (2023) then put her in a very loud room: she is Isabel, who turns up at the self-defence club alongside Kaia Gerber's Brittany, and in a comedy built around Sennott and Edebiri shouting she is noticed anyway. The thrillers followed, *Lurker* (2025) and then *Tuner*.

What she brings is physical before it is verbal. She trained in dance and performance art, and it shows in how she stands, how she crosses a room, how little she does with her hands. For *Tuner* she learned the piano rather than fake it, and she has said the part "felt like an interesting container for a lot of the complexities of grief and drive that I had in that moment." Whatever she poured in, Ruthie has weight the script did not supply.

The same year gave her two more films and neither gave her anything to do. We found Nicolas Winding Refn's *Her Private Hell* (2026) close to unwatchable and John Carney's *Power Ballad* (2026) thinner than it thinks, and Liu registers in neither, which is the fairest thing we can say about the parts. A performer this watchful needs a director who is looking back. Roher was. Refn and Carney, on this evidence, were looking at other people.

The lead she had in *No Exit* has not come round again in anything we have reviewed. On the strength of *Tuner*, someone should hand her another, in a film prepared to keep its camera on her for longer than a subplot allows.

## Biography

Havana Rose Liu is an American actress and model, also credited as Havana Liu. Born on 30 September 1997 in Brooklyn, New York City, she graduated from New York University with a BA in 2019 after studying the intersection of art, activism and wellness.

She began her career as a model after being scouted on the street and has appeared on the cover of Vogue Italia; she is represented by IMG Models. Liu made her feature acting debut in the 2021 film *Mayday* and is known for her role as Isabel in the 2023 comedy *Bottoms*. Subsequent credits include *No Exit* (2022), *Afraid* (2024), *Lurker* (2025) and *Tuner* (2026), in which she plays Ruthie.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *Her Private Hell* (2026), Fi1m 41, as Dominique — [page](https://film.one/film/her-private-hell.md)
- *Power Ballad* (2026), Fi1m 63, as Marcia — [page](https://film.one/film/power-ballad.md)
- *The Debut* (2026), Fi1m 78, as Twisty — [page](https://film.one/film/the-debut.md)
- *Tuner* (2026), Fi1m 74, as Ruthie — [page](https://film.one/film/tuner.md)
- *Bottoms* (2023), Fi1m 73, as Isabel — [page](https://film.one/film/bottoms.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Elden Ring* (2028), Actor
- *The Debut* (2026), as Twisty — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-debut.md)
- *Her Private Hell* (2026), as Dominique — Fi1m 41, [page](https://film.one/film/her-private-hell.md)
- *Tuner* (2026), as Ruthie — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/tuner.md)
- *Power Ballad* (2026), as Marcia — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/power-ballad.md)
- *Oh. What. Fun.* (2025), as Lizzie Wang-Wasserman
- *Hal & Harper* (2025), series, as Abby
- *Lurker* (2025), as Shai
- *Is / Was \ Will* (2025), Actor
- *Afraid* (2024), as Melody / AIA (voice)
- *Bottoms* (2023), as Isabel — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/bottoms.md)
- *No Exit* (2022), as Darby
- *The Sky Is Everywhere* (2022), as Bailey
- *Wake* (2022), as Mary
- *Mayday* (2021), as Bea
- *The Chair* (2021), series, as Sarah
- *American Horror Stories* (2021), series, as Sasha
- *Girls Will Be* (2019), as Rome
- *Peaches*, as Bing Bing
- *I Am a Monster*, Actor
- *Hyena*, as Genevieve
- *Untitled A24 Horror Film*, as Millie

## Gallery

- ![talking at the 2025 Telluride Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/6706/gallery-b9047b56583f.jpg) talking at the 2025 Telluride Film Festival — Sizzlipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Havana_Rose_Liu_1100222.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![talking at the 2025 Telluride Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/6706/gallery-f69755812e9b.jpg) talking at the 2025 Telluride Film Festival — Sizzlipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Havana_Rose_Liu_1100230.jpg/1280px-Havana_Rose_Liu_1100230.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Havana Rose Liu, actor, at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for the movie Tuner.](https://film.one/media/person/6706/gallery-a01f0148e805.jpg) Havana Rose Liu, actor, at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for the movie Tuner. — Sara Komatsu, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Havana_Rose_Liu_at_the_2025_Toronto_International_Film_Festival._01.jpg/1280px-Havana_Rose_Liu_at_the_2025_Toronto_International_Film_Festival._01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Havana Rose Liu](https://film.one/media/person/6706/gallery-9ce219039c6f.jpg) Havana Rose Liu — Sara Komatsu, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Havana_Rose_Liu_at_the_2025_Toronto_International_Film_Festival._01_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Havana_Rose_Liu_at_the_2025_Toronto_International_Film_Festival._01_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Havana Rose Liu](https://film.one/media/person/6706/gallery-ba3b22791ef3.jpg) Havana Rose Liu — Image via TMDB
- ![Havana Rose Liu](https://film.one/media/person/6706/gallery-02b700d856ca.jpg) Havana Rose Liu — Image via TMDB
- ![Havana Rose Liu](https://film.one/media/person/6706/gallery-a178c66447a0.jpg) Havana Rose Liu — Image via TMDB
- ![Havana Rose Liu, actor, at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for the movie Tuner.](https://film.one/media/person/6706/gallery-d449ec8f084d.jpg) Havana Rose Liu, actor, at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for the movie Tuner. — Sara Komatsu, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Havana_Rose_Liu_at_the_2025_Toronto_International_Film_Festival._02.jpg/1280px-Havana_Rose_Liu_at_the_2025_Toronto_International_Film_Festival._02.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Havana Rose Liu](https://film.one/media/person/6706/gallery-be40acc2c8e9.jpg) Havana Rose Liu — Image via TMDB
- ![Havana Rose Liu](https://film.one/media/person/6706/gallery-1f48413c3b92.jpg) Havana Rose Liu — Image via TMDB
- ![Havana Rose Liu](https://film.one/media/person/6706/gallery-7993a7184a75.jpg) Havana Rose Liu — Image via TMDB

---
© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/havana-rose-liu