Crystal Liu, born An Feng, better known by her stage name, Liu Yifei, is a Chinese-American actress, singer, and model. For Disney, she starred as Hua Mulan in the 2020 live-action remake of Mulan. She also provided the voice of Asha in the Chinese Mandarin dub of Wish.
Liu Yifei was born on August 25, 1987 in Tongji Hospital in Wuhan, Hubei. In 1997, when she was 10 years old, she and her mother immigrated to the United States and lived in Queens, New York City where she attended Louis Pasteur Middle School 67. In 2002, she returned to China to pursue an acting career and took the stage name "Liu Yifei" (刘亦菲). Several weeks after returning to China, she was accepted into the Performance Institute of Beijing Film Academy at age 15 and graduated in 2006.
Upon enter school, Liu received offers to star in various television series. Her first television appearance in 2003 was in the period romance drama The Story of a Noble Family (金粉世家), based on Zhang Henshui's eponymous novel. She continued to appear in television shows, such as Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils (天龙八部), Chinese Paladin (仙剑奇侠传), and The Return of the Condor Heroes (神鵰俠侶). She later transitioned into films and was cast in her first Hollywood production, The Forbidden Kingdom. She later appeared Love in Disguise, A Chinese Ghost Story, For Love or Money, The Third Way of Love, and played the role of Wu Qing in Gordon Chan's wuxia film The Four and its sequels.
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