--- name: "Cya Liu" canonical: "https://film.one/person/liu-yase" fi1m_id: "liu-yase" imdb_id: "nm2598196" tmdb_id: 1397017 wikidata_id: "Q17004267" roles: ["Actor"] born: "13 January 1989" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-30T21:27:33.864980+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." --- # Cya Liu ## Identity Cya Liu - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/liu-yase - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** liu-yase - **IMDb ID:** nm2598196 - **TMDB ID:** 1397017 - **Wikidata ID:** Q17004267 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cya_Liu, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17004267, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2598196/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1397017 Actor. Born 13 January 1989 in Hengyang, Hunan, China. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 13 January 1989, Hengyang, Hunan, China - **Also known as:** Liu Yase, 劉雅瑟, Cya Liu Ya-Se, Liu Xin, 刘雅瑟, 刘欣, Liu Ya Se - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cya_Liu, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17004267, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2598196/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1397017 ## Streaming the US now - **Tubi:** [*Limbo*](https://film.one/film/limbo.md) (66) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Cya Liu > In *Limbo* (2021) Cya Liu plays a woman who has decided she deserves whatever is coming, and lets us see the moment she starts to disagree with herself. She is the reason to watch the film, and the reason we left it uneasy. Wong To in *Limbo* (2021) spends most of two hours running through Soi Cheang's black-and-white Hong Kong of landfill and rain, and Liu runs like someone who has done it before. That is the first thing you notice. The second is smaller. She plays a woman who has decided she deserves whatever is coming, and Liu lets us see, in small movements of the mouth, the moment she starts to disagree with herself. Almost nobody in the film is on her side. Liu is. She came into the business through a talent show in 2004 and into film two years later, with a lead in *Thirteen Princess Trees* (2006). *So Young* (2013), in which she played Zhu Xiaobei, was the part that got her noticed, and for a decade she worked across mainland films and television. From the late 2010s the Hong Kong roles came more often: Leung Wai-yin, a homeless single mother, in *I'm Livin' It* (2020), and then Wong To. Since then there has been *Sakra* (2023), a wuxia adaptation with Donnie Yen, in which she plays A Zi. We have reviewed only *Limbo*, so we will not pretend to a view of the rest. The pattern in the casting is plain enough: women at the bottom, in hardship, getting by or not. She has said, "I am not a smart actor and have no acting skills", and claims to work from the people she has watched rather than from any method. Whether that is modesty or the truth, it fits what is on screen, because nothing in Wong To looks rehearsed. The physical side is real; Cheang puts her through fights and long stretches of endurance, and Liu never lets the effort read as acting. Opposite Gordon Lam's Cham Lau, who hits first and asks nothing afterwards, she is the one person the film seems to grant an inside, and she keeps it private from him and open to us. We admired the performance and, by the second hour, we wanted the film to leave her alone. Both things are true and they are connected. Cheang is more interested in what can be done to Wong To than in what she might do, and the cost of being this good at suffering is that directors will keep asking for it. Our score for *Limbo* was 66, and the gap between that number and how we feel about Liu is roughly the size of that problem. The sensible hope is that someone casts her in a part where nobody chases her and she has to make something out of a room and a conversation. Until then *Limbo* is where to start, and it will tell you inside ten minutes why people talk about her. Watch it knowing that the film asks a great deal of her and gives her rather little back. ## Biography Cya Liu, also credited as Liu Yase or Liu Xin, is a Chinese actress and singer. Born Liu Xin on 13 January 1989 in Hengyang, Hunan, she began her career in 2004 as a member of the girl group OP and later transitioned to acting. She first gained wider notice for her role as Zhu Xiaobei in the 2013 film *So Young*. Liu is best known for portraying Wong To in *Limbo* (2021), for which she won Best Actress at the 40th Hong Kong Film Awards in 2022, and for her performance as A Zi in *Sakra* (2023). She has appeared in numerous other films and television series since the mid-2000s. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Limbo* (2021), Fi1m 66, as Wong To — [page](https://film.one/film/limbo.md) ## Complete filmography (38) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *No Other Love* (2026), as Ban Lan - *Vanished Name* (2026), series, as Bai Shu - *The Truth Within* (2025), series, as Zhu Qingyue - *Octopus with Broken Arms* (2024), as Yayin - *See Her Again* (2024), series, as Chan Hoi-ching - *The Hedgehog* (2024), as Ye Fangfang - *Customs Frontline* (2024), as Ying - *I Did It My Way* (2023), as Vivian Ha - *Beyond the Clouds* (2023), as 付春盈 - *The Ex-Files 4: Marriage Plan* (2023), as Liu Liu - *Cafe by the Highway* (2023), as Han Yuanfang - *Fantasy Magician 2* (2023), Actor - *Sakra* (2023), as A Zi - *The Polar Odyssey* (2023), as 罗兰 Luo Lan - *Reunion Dinner* (2022), as Zi Hong - *We Were Then* (2021), series, as Ye Ke - *Limbo* (2021), as Wong To — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/limbo.md) - *With You* (2020), series, as Zhao Ying - *I'm Livin' It* (2020), as Leung Wai-yin - *Invisible Bedmate* (2020), as Shen Yizhen - *Transcendent* (2018), Actor - *Happiness* (2016), as Xiaoyue - *Women Must be Stronger* (2016), series, as You You - *Chinese Paladin 5* (2016), series, as Fang Caiwei - *Legend of Nine Tails Fox* (2016), series, as Su Xi - *Rock Hero* (2015), Actor - *You Are My Sisters* (2015), series, as An Le - *Lost and Love* (2015), as Xiao Ju - *Fleet of Time* (2014), as Qi Qi - *Love Evolutionism* (2014), Actor - *午夜计程车* (2014), series, Actor - *Up in the Wind* (2013), as Li Rexue - *So Young* (2013), as Zhu Xiaobei - *Joyful Reunion* (2012), as Yu Fan's Cousin - *Sleepless Fashion* (2011), Actor - *Under the Influence* (2011), as Yan Mengmeng - *Thirteen Princess Trees* (2006), as Feng - *Mad Blackfin*, series, as Yuan Yin ## Gallery - ![Cya Liu](https://film.one/media/person/4126934/gallery-0c2e1f485a42.png) Cya Liu — am730, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/CYA_LIU_%28%E5%8A%89%E9%9B%85%E7%91%9F%29_-_40TH_HONG_KONG_FILM_AWARDS_-_2022.07.17.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Cya Liu interview after winning Best Actress at the 40th Hong Kong Film Awards in 2022](https://film.one/media/person/4126934/gallery-8df38fb5b7cf.jpg) Cya Liu interview after winning Best Actress at the 40th Hong Kong Film Awards in 2022 — am730, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/%E5%8A%89%E9%9B%85%E7%91%9F_-_%E9%87%91%E5%83%8F%E7%8D%8E2022_%282%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Cya Liu holding the Best Actress statue at the 40th HKFA on July 17, 2022](https://film.one/media/person/4126934/gallery-a187faa9db04.jpg) Cya Liu holding the Best Actress statue at the 40th HKFA on July 17, 2022 — am730, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Cya_Liu_%28%E5%8A%89%E9%9B%85%E7%91%9F%29_-_40th_HKFA_2022.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Cya Liu](https://film.one/media/person/4126934/gallery-01b4bef154a7.jpg) Cya Liu — Image via TMDB - ![Cya Liu](https://film.one/media/person/4126934/gallery-2d81ea8fb3bb.jpg) Cya Liu — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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