Katie Lung is a Scottish actress. She starred in several films. Fame brought her the role of Zhou Chang in the fantasy cycle of Harry Potter. Awarded the Best Newcomer Award, Young Scotsman, MTV Movie Awards US "For the Best Kiss." Recognized as the most stylish girl in Scotland.
Until the age of 18, the young actress Katie Liu Lyung with great success participated only in school theater productions. Famous for her was the role of the beloved wizard of Harry Potter Zhou Chang.
The path to the star role
The biography of the future celebrity began in Motherwell in 1987. The girl was born on August 8 in the family of practicing neurologist Kar Wai Lee Lyung and businessman and lawyer Peter. Soon, the parents broke up. The child, along with two younger brothers and sister, was raised by his father.
He was a wealthy man. In the possession of a native of Hong Kong were a shop, hotel, restaurant, he was also engaged in the wholesale of Chinese food. The children did not need anything. Since childhood, the head of the family, who received one of the daughter’s most popular names in the country, instilled a love for cinema. He supported all the initiatives of the girl.
Roles in the famous epic about the adventures of a young wizard, the actress owes her father. It was he who noticed the announcement of the casting while watching newspapers. He invited his daughter to be selected for the role of girlfriend of the protagonist of the film "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" Zhou Chang.
The girl’s appearance was in full compliance with the stated criteria. Katie was skeptical about her father's proposal. She was sure that she would not get a role. The queue of applicants was huge, they had to wait at least four hours.
Listening took all 5 minutes. Katie admitted that she had completely turned into a trading booth, since 4, 500 other applicants who wanted to play the heroine were present at the samples. Little time passed, and a bell rang in the apartment. Lung reported that she passed the test. The actress herself said in an interview with The Daily Record that her Scottish accent apparently played a decisive role in the casting.
Film career
In the future, Katie participated in work on other parts of the film. With Zhou Chang, the main character first kissed in the frame in the fifth film of the story of a young wizard. But, according to the scenario, the relationship between them ended very quickly.
Already by the sixth film "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", filmed in 2009, Katie appeared in few and subtle episodes. Now she was already Potter's ex-lover. The heroine also appeared in the final part of the picture entitled "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows."
Starring Lung not only in the film adaptation of Rowling. In 2008, the movie "Poirot Agatha Christie" was released. Katie got the role of Sui Tai. Her heroine appeared in the second episode of season 11. The series was called "The Cat Among the Pigeons".
According to the script, the affiliated detective Hercule Poirot was invited to one of the best educational institutions in England for girls, the Midoubank school. He was entrusted with an honorable duty, the presentation of a prize for winning a tennis tournament. In addition, Poirot intends to meet his old acquaintance, the directrix Miss Bulstrode. She managed to gather among the staff a lot of people with her secret desires and passions. It is these inclinations that Poirot intends to study from the point of view of psychology.
However, soon the search came to an end: one of the teachers was killed. It turns out that her death is associated with espionage. Now, Poirot is busy with a very difficult investigation.
New works
In 2014, Lung was invited to the mini-series Run. It has only 4 episodes. She got the character Nui-Ying. The actress had the chance to play Jia-Li-Gerard in episode 8 of the second season in the telenovela "Colonel Gerard's Prize" from the television program "Father Brown".
The series, based on the works of Chesterton, takes place in the early fifties in the English village of Cotswold. The main character serves there as a parish priest. Father Brown is fond of solving crimes with the help of logic and observation, understanding the nature of man. He is trying to understand the offender and help him, if possible, to realize the perfect offense and repent.
Almost simultaneously, the actress took part in the work on the three-part television project "The Only Child" in the image of May Ashley. In Danny Boyle's drama "T2: Trainspoting, " Katie got a small role as a nurse.
In the role of the daughter of the protagonist, Fan, the celebrity starred in the movie “The Foreigner” in 2017. Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan played together with the young star in the film.
In the story, a former commando in London runs a restaurant. During the attack in the store, his only daughter is killed. Kwan decides to search for those responsible. With the help of all the tricks known to him, the hero manages to find those responsible for the explosion.
In 2018, Katie played the role of a cameo in the film "Leading Lady Parts". Then she began work in the film "Strangers".
