EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays – Candlelight Processional". disneyworld.disney.go.com . Retrieved 29 June 2023.

O'Rourke, Ryan (22 February 2022). " 'Hello Stranger': Simu Liu Joins Sam Worthington and Robbie Amell in Sci-Fi Thriller". Collider . Retrieved 30 December 2022. Liu is also a filmmaker, producer, and writer. Liu's first work in this area was Open Gym, a short film he wrote, directed, produced, and starred in that debuted at the 2013 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival. He has directed, produced, and written several other shorts, including Crimson Defender vs. The Slightly Racist Family (2015). In 2016, Liu helped write Blood and Water, during which he helped break the story for the show and wrote an episode for its second season. [4] In 2017, Liu worked with Wong Fu Productions on their short Meeting Mommy (2017) , which he wrote and produced with Tina Jung. It was released in February 2018 on the Wong Fu Productions YouTube channel. [42] In 2018, he founded his own film production company, 4:12 Entertainment, and began developing long-form film projects under it. [43] [44] It has “affected me on a subconscious level to this day”, he says. “I generally think it’s better to bring these moments into the light and talk about them. It wasn’t to make my parents look bad but it was to say: ‘We were an imperfect family and this is what happened to us. And we’re telling our story in the hope that other families will not make the same mistakes.’” Simu Liu | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program | Canadian Screen Awards". Academy.ca. 8 January 2017 . Retrieved 6 July 2017.

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Solsman, Joan E. (6 May 2022). " 'Doctor Strange' Won't Hit Disney Plus for Weeks (or Months). Here's Why". CNET. Archived from the original on 24 May 2022 . Retrieved 25 May 2022. In 2018, he appeared in the science fiction television series The Expanse [21] [22]and Wong Fu Productions' YouTube series Yappie. [23] 2019–present: Recent work and Marvel Cinematic Universe [ edit ] Liu on The Beaverton in 2019 Youth activists from across Canada to gather in Ottawa for National Child Day". UNICEF Canada: For Every Child . Retrieved 27 November 2023. Later, he says, “when I was further on in my career, I was like, is it going to be more of that, or is there going to be an opportunity to step up? I remember feeling discouragement when I would read these breakdowns and look at who is producing, who’s writing. Even if there was an Asian character, the people making the decisions, none of them were Asian-American, Asian-Canadian.”

Kim's Convenience star Simu Liu thanks his immigrant parents for his Canadian life". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation . Retrieved 20 September 2019. Clay, Chris (27 October 2016). "Mississauga-raised actor stars in Kim's Convenience, lands role in NBC's Taken | Mississauga.com". Mississauga.com . Retrieved 6 July 2017. Liu was included on Time magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2022. [48] Liu was named one of Hello!'s 50 Most Beautiful Canadians and 25 Hottest Bachelors in 2017 and 2018. [49] [50] [51] In May 2021, Liu became the first East Asian man to cover Men's Health magazine in over a decade since Jet Li in 2010. [52] In November 2021, Liu became the fourth actor of Chinese descent to host Saturday Night Live. [53] He has previously hosted the Juno Awards of 2022 and the Juno Awards of 2023. [54] [55]Simu Liu ( / ˈ s iː m uː ˈ l iː juː/ SEE-moo LEE-yoo; [2] Chinese: 刘思慕; born 19 April 1989) is a Canadian actor and singer. He is known for portraying Shang-Chi in the 2021 Marvel Cinematic Universe film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. He also played Jung Kim in the CBC Television sitcom Kim's Convenience [3] and a Ken in Barbie. He received nominations at the ACTRA Awards and Canadian Screen Awards for his work in Blood and Water. [4]

The star of Marvel’s first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own origin story of being a Chinese immigrant, his battles with cultural stereotypes and his own identity, becoming a TV star, and landing the role of a lifetime. Simu Liu, new Marvel superhero & Kim's Convenience star, writing a memoir". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation . Retrieved 20 September 2019. Canada's Most Beautiful 2017: See who made the list!". Hello! Canada. 18 May 2017 . Retrieved 20 March 2018. In this honest, inspiring and relatable memoir, newly-minted superhero Simu Liu chronicles his family's journey from China to the bright lights of Hollywood with razor-sharp wit and humor. Grygiel, JiaYing (4 April 2023). "Marvel actor joins Bellevue dumpling company". The Seattle Times . Retrieved 19 October 2023.Lee, Traci G. (31 August 2018). " 'Kim's Convenience' actor Simu Liu on being an accountant, his big break, and 'Crazy Rich Asians' momentum". NBC News . Retrieved 23 August 2021.