Biography
Tong Liya is a Chinese actress. She was born on 8 August 1983 in Qapqal Xibe Autonomous County, Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, and is of Xibe ethnicity. She studied dance at the Xinjiang Arts Institute before enrolling at the Central Academy of Drama in 2004 to study performance.
She made her screen debut in 2008 and gained recognition for her role in the television series Palace (2011). Her film credits include The Taking of Tiger Mountain (2014), Detective Chinatown (2015), How Long Will I Love U (2018), My People, My Country (2019), A Writer's Odyssey (2021) and The Wandering Earth II (2023), in which she played Tu Hengyu's wife. She has also appeared in Black Dog (2024).
Tong was married to director and actor Chen Sicheng from 2014 to 2021.
