Biography
Kris Wu, also known as Wu Yifan, is a Chinese-Canadian former actor and singer. Born Li Jiaheng on 6 November 1990 in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, he moved to Canada as a child and later returned to China. He rose to prominence as a member of the K-pop group EXO and its subgroup EXO-M before departing in 2014 to pursue a solo career.
Wu appeared in several Chinese and international films, including Mr. Six (2015), The Mermaid (2016) as Long Jianfei, So Young 2: Never Gone (2016), Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back (2017), xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017) and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017).
In November 2022, a Beijing court sentenced Wu to 13 years in prison after convicting him of rape and related offences; he was also ordered to pay a substantial fine for tax evasion and faces deportation upon release.
