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Anya

Anya

Actor · b. 1976 · Taiwan

Anya Wu was born on February 17th, in 1976 in Taiwan. She moved to the United States, together with her family, by the age of 6. She was raised in New York City and was discovered by a record company to become a singer back in Taiwan. While she was in Taiwan and preparing for her album release, Anya, became the first girl DJ in Taiwan clubs. She caught alot of media attention, even media from Hong Kong. With so much public attention, her interview in a magazine caught the eye of Director Jingle Ma, who then convinced Golden Harvest, a film production, distribution and exhibition company to relocate her to Hong Kong and sign her. Unfortunately, by the time they found her, he had already started "Moi Moi Cha", the movie in which he had wanted her for. So her debut film became Born To Be King, the final installment of the Young & Dangerous series,as Jordan Chan's wife, Nanako. Relocating to Hong Kong, Anya's profile has increased swiftly with Golden Harvest's support. She has since had larger roles in several of the studio's post-millenium efforts. She appeared as one of Ekin Cheng's many girls in For Bad Boys Only and in 2001 took more action-oriented roles in two hot action films. Sharp Guns and 2002, where her Fire Ghost menaced Stephen Fung and Nicholas Tse. She went on to become one of the top upcoming actresses in both Hong Kong and Taiwan and with her undoubtable gorgeous looks has also graced numerous magazine covers, print ads, and TV shows in both regions. In 2002, Anya began work on the "remake/sequel" to Naked Killer, titled Naked Weapon as Kat, the best friend to Charlene, Maggie Q's character. She also recently worked in HK on a stage play Glengarry Glenross in which she took on the challenging role of Blake that has been always played by a man. Tickets were sold out and another day had to be added. Afterwards, she starred in Tsui Hark's thriller Vampire Hunters as Sasa. After the liquidation of Golden Harvest's talent agency, Anya decided to go back to her native Taiwan and experiment on some TV series there. There she did starred in a TV series called Pink Godfather, as well as Taiwan's version of "Sex And The City" where she played "Samantha". After being there for a year, she realized that her focus was still more in films, and headed to join the fierce competitive, but growing industry in China. Being fluent in Chinese as well as English, her current works are on co-productions with China and foreign production companies.

Movies20

  • Movie6.3

    Born to Be King

    勝者為王

    2000 · 44 votes

  • Movie4.6

    Vampire Hunters

    殭屍大時代

    2003 · 46 votes

  • Movie5.8

    What Women Want

    我知女人心

    2011 · 37 votes

  • Movie4.9

    Kung Fu Killer

    2008 · 27 votes

  • Movie6.4

    My Lucky Star

    行運超人

    2003 · 18 votes

  • Movie5.7

    For Bad Boys Only

    BadBoy特攻

    2000 · 10 votes

  • Movie5.8

    2002

    2001 · 20 votes

  • Movie6.0

    But Always

    一生一世

    2014 · 20 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Cop on a Mission

    知法犯法

    2001 · 16 votes

  • Movie5.0

    Mysterious Island

    孤岛惊魂

    2011 · 27 votes

  • Movie5.5

    Shanghai Baby

    2007 · 6 votes

  • Movie6.2

    PTU File: Death Trap

    PTU女警之偶然陷阱

    2005 · 3 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Runaway

    走投有路

    2001 · 8 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Naked Weapon

    赤裸特工

    2002 · 412 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Sharp Guns

    險角

    2001 · 9 votes

  • Movie

    The Devil Inside Me

    奪命心跳

    2011

  • Movie

    Single Blog

    單身部落

    2007

  • Movie3.0

    A Marvellous Detective

    妙探神威

    2004 · 1 votes

  • Movie10.0

    Chengdu, I Love You

    成都,我爱你

    2009 · 1 votes

  • Movie3.7

    Love Motel

    恐怖旅馆

    2012 · 3 votes

Series3

  • TV9.0

    Flatland

    2002 · 1 votes

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