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Simu is a Chinese-Canadian actor who won a Game Changer Award and People's Choice Award for his role as Shang-Chi in the Marvel movie Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021). Before his leading role in a Marvel movie, he played Jung Kim on the CBC sitcom Kim's Convenience (2016). He is also a writer and producer.

Immigrating from China at the age of 5, Simu was raised in Mississauga, Ontario. After graduating from the Richard Ivey School of Business and working at a top accounting firm for nearly a year, Liu was laid off. Deciding to pursue work in film and television instead, he quickly landed roles on series such as Heroes Reborn (2015), Nikita (2010), Warehouse 13 (2009) and Air Crash Investigation (2003).

He has since starred on Blood and Water (2015) and Taken (2017), and guest starred on shows such as The Expanse (2015), Bad Blood (2017), and Fresh Off the Boat (2015).

Liu has written and produced for television as well as in film. His short film Meeting Mommy was selected as a semi-finalist for the NBC Universal Shorts Festival. He was also a writer on the second season of Blood and Water, contributing as a story editor for the season and as the main writer for one episode.

Simu trains extensively in martial arts and stunt work in addition to television and theatrical performance.

Li Bingbing (born 27 February 1973) is a Chinese actress and singer. She rose to fame with her role in Seventeen Years (1999) and since then received critical acclaim for her roles in A World Without Thieves (2004), Waiting Alone (2005), The Knot (2006), The Forbidden Kingdom (2008), The Message (2009), Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010), and Zhong Kui: Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal (2015). Li has also starred in Hollywood blockbusters Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) and Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014).

Li was born in Wuchang, Heilongjiang. She had no intention of becoming an actress initially and she enrolled specifically in a high school for prospective school teachers. However, upon graduation, she discovered her interest in acting and was eventually persuaded by a friend to join the Shanghai Theatre Academy in 1993.

Li rose to fame after starring in Zhang Yuan's Seventeen Years (1999), which won her the Best Actress Award in the 1999 Singapore Film Festival. In 2001, Li starred in the television series Young Justice Bao, which propelled her to become one of the most famous actresses in China.

Li was subsequently labelled as an "action actress" as she starred in a number of wuxia television series, such as Taiji Prodigy and Eight Heroes.

Li achieved breakthrough with her performance in Feng Xiaogang's A World Without Thieves. She then starred in Dayyan Eng's romantic comedy film Waiting Alone, for which she received her first Best Actress nomination at the Golden Rooster Awards.

In 2006, Li starred in romance film The Knot, directed by Yin Li. The film was China's entry for the Best Foreign Film award at the 2008 Academy Awards. Li won Best Actress awards at the 2007 Huabiao Awards and at the 2008 Hundred Flowers Awards. In 2008, she co-starred with Jet Li and Jackie Chan in the 2008 blockbuster The Forbidden Kingdom as the White-Haired Witch. The film was her first appearance in an international film, and gave her a solid international following.

In 2009, Li won Best Actress at the 46th Golden Horse Film Awards for her performance in The Message, about Japanese invaders in China who try to ferret out a spy among their Chinese collaborators.

Li then starred in Tsui Hark's 2010 action-mystery film Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame. She played Shangguan Jing'er, a fictional character based off Shangguan Wan'er, a prestigious politician during the Tang Dynasty. She established her studio in the same year, co-starring and co-producing the film 1911 with Jackie Chan, which was released in September 2011 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution.

Li's first-time in an English-language film is Wayne Wang's Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, adapted from Lisa See's 2005 novel of the same title. The film premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Li started to gain recognition in Hollywood after starring in Resident Evil: Retribution, playing Ada Wong. The same year, she was cast in action fantasy film 400 Boys, directed by British director Alastair Paton.

In 2013, Li attended the 4th Annual US-China Film Summit and received the East-West Talent Award. Hollywood magazine Variety also named her Asian Star of the Year. The following year, Li featured in Transformers: Age of Extinction, the fourth installment of the film franchise. This helped solidify her success overseas.

In 2015, she was cast in 3D science fiction thriller Nest (also known as Guardians of the Tomb), a Chinese-Australian co-production that was finally released in January 2018. The same year, it was announced that Li would play China's first female superhero in upcoming film Realm, written by Stan Lee.

In 2016, Li joined the cast of Meg, an American shark film based on Steve Alten's 1997 novel.

She is also one of the members of China Zhi Gong Party.

Jia Song was born on 13 November 1980 in Harbin, China. She is an actress, known for The Final Master (2015), Red Cliff (2008) and Falling Flowers (2012).

Xingtong Yao was born on 12 April 1983 in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China. She is an actress, known for Amor (2010), Chinese Zodiac (2012) and Zhang fang (2008).

Qian Sun was born on 18 April 1997 in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, China. She is an actress, known for Wild Bloom (2022), All These Years (2023) and Wo zai weilai deng ni (2019).

Wayne Wang was born on 13 March 1978 in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, China. He is an actor, known for The Fearless (2023), Under the Microscope (2023) and All the Way to the Sun (2023). He has been married to Si Gao since 15 December 2018. They have one child.

Dan Liu was born on 10 November 1975 in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China. She was an actress, known for Qing ren jia ri jiu dian (2000), Journey to the West (1986) and Huan zhu ge ge 2 (1999). She died on 30 January 2000 in Shenzhen, Guangzhou, China.

Li Yu was born on 2 December 1963 in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China. She is an actress, known for Gua fu cun (1988), The Last Emperor (1987) and Tiao zi a bu la (2000).

Eugene Poddany was born on 23 December 1919 in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China. Eugene was a composer, known for Fireman Save My Child (1954), How to Be Very, Very Popular (1955) and Horton Hears a Who! (1970). Eugene died on 10 March 1984 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Dahong Ni was born in 1960 in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China. He is an actor, known for Curse of the Golden Flower (2006), Lethal Hostage (2012) and All Is Well (2019).

Qingzi Kan was born on 15 April 1988 in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China. She is an actress, known for Qin ai de zi ji (2020), Fei teng ren sheng (2022) and Awakening of Insects (2019).

Xin Qiao was born on 23 November 1993 in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China. She is an actress, known for Ode to Joy (2016), Strange Legend of Tang Dynasty (2022) and The Ordinary Glory (2020).

Dongjun Han was born on 21 July 1992 in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, China. He is an actor, known for Fake It Till You Make It (2023), The Story of 90 Coins (2015) and Wuxin: The Monster Killer (2015).

Nailiang Jia was born on 12 April 1984 in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China. He is an actor, known for Kong jiang li ren (2019), Zhu Fu Shen Tan (2016) and Destined to Love You (2015). He was previously married to Xiaolu Li.

Pierre Batcheff was born on 23 June 1907 in Harbin, Manchuria, China. He was an actor and writer, known for Two Timid Souls (1928), Monte Cristo (1929) and Napoleon (1927). He was married to Denise Tual. He died on 13 April 1932 in Paris, France.

Chia-Chang Liu was born on 13 April 1941 in Harbin, Manchuria, China. He is a composer and director, known for Love Begins Here (1973), Victory (1976) and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021). He was previously married to Zhen Zhen and Ching Chiang.

Lidiya Vertinskaya was born Lidiya Vladimirovna Tsirgvava on April 14, 1923, in Kharbin, China, into a family of emigrants from Georgia, a former part of the collapsed Russian Empire. Her parents were highly educated aristocrats who belonged to Georgian Landed Gentry, they emigrated with the White Russians, after destruction of their wealth in the Russian Communist Revolution of 1917.

In China, at the age of 16, she met popular Russian actor Aleksandr Vertinskiy, who performed at his cabaret called "Gardenia" catering to a small Russian community in Shanghai. There, after two years of courtship and romance, Vertinsky married young Lidia Vladimirovna Tsirgvava. Their first daughter, Marianna Vertinskaya was born on a train to Shanghai in 1943.

During the Second World War, Lidiya Vertinskaya together with Aleksandr Vertinskiy moved to Moscow. Their second daughter, Anastasiya Vertinskaya was born in Moscow, Russia, in 1944. At that time Lidiya Vertinskaya was raising her two young daughters, while her famous husband was sent to perform at hospitals to entertain the wounded Red Army troops and proletarians with an official instruction to sing mostly patriotic songs in order to receive redemption. Regardless of the political restrictions on his creativity and acting career, her husband managed to support his family.

In 1948, when the Soviet leadership launched massive attacks on Russian intellectuals, Vertinsky was blacklisted by the Soviet Communist ideologist, Andrei Zhdanov, and his life and career was at risk. Joseph Stalin decided to leave Vertinsky alone and personally crossed his name out of the dangerous "black list", so Vertinsky was spared. After that he was allowed to resume his film career. In 1951 he was awarded the State Stalin's Prize for the supporting role as Brinch, an anti-Communist Cardinal in Zagovor obrechyonnykh (1950) by director Mikhail Kalatozov. However, Aleksandr Vertinsky still remained under suspicion and was banned from recording of his songs as well as from publications of his writings for the rest of his life in the Soviet Union. He was also restricted from performing before big audiences, while the Soviet censorship put pressure on many Russian cultural figures, such as Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pasternak, among others. After the death of Joseph Stalin things began to change because Nikita Khrushchev initiated the "Thaw" and eased a few bans and restrictions.

Lidiya Vertinskaya became a single mother with two teenage daughters in 1959, after the death of her husband. However, she managed to raise her daughters and both became successful in their acting careers. Lidiya Vertinskaya made several film appearances during the 1950s and 1960s, such as The Phoenix in Sadko (1953), and The Duchess in Don Kikhot (1957) by director Grigoriy Kozintsev. She amassed a significant collection of music records and memorabilia related to her famous husband, Aleksandr Vertinskiy, and also wrote her memoirs. Lidiya Vertinskaya is living in Moscow, Russia.

Danfeng Zhang was born on 1 April 1981 in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China. He is an actor, known for The Journey of Flower (2015), The Drug Hunter (2018) and The Journey of Flower (2024). He has been married to Catherine Yan Hung since 20 June 2009. They have two children.

Tatsuo Umemiya was born on 11 March 1938 in Harbin, Manchuria, China. He was an actor, known for Prince of Space (1959), Abashiri bangaichi: Fubuki no tôsô (1967) and Prince of Space: Spaceship of Fear (1959). He was married to Claudia Umemiya and Setsuko Daimon. He died on 12 December 2019 in Tokyo, Japan.

Ma graduated from the People's Liberation Army Arts College in 1998, majoring in dance. She worked as a model for some television commercials after her graduation. In 2002, she made her acting debut in High Flying Songs of Tang Dynasty, a historical television series set in the Tang dynasty. A year later, she graduated from the Beijing Film Academy.

Ma first rose to fame for her role as the repressed and rebellious young lady in the youth drama Spring in Summer (2003).

In 2009, Ma gained acclaim for her performance in the romantic period drama North Wind Blows. She won the Best Prospect award at the Shanghai Television Festival. Ma then starred in modern romance series My Beautiful Life (2010); her role as the "little nanny" was loved by the audience and established her acting recognition among the masses. She achieved further acclaim with her portrayal of a female bandit in war drama Highest Amnesty, and was also nominated for the Best Supporting Actress award at the Hundred Flowers Awards for her performance in Iron Man, a film about those who struggled to develop China's oil industry in the Taklamakan desert in West China.

Ma then played the titular protagonist in the period drama Beauty of Innocence (2011); her interpretation of the beautiful and strong-willed character won over many critics, and Ma won the Audience's Choice for Actress at the Golden Eagle Awards. She then starred in her first spy drama, Cheongsam (2011) wherein she played a special agent. Her performance in the series won her the Best Actress award at the Huading Awards.

2012 was Ma's most successful year yet. She starred in Beijing Youth, the third installment of Zhao Baogang's Youth trilogy; which won her the Best Actress award at the Huading Awards. She next starred in wuxia drama The Bride with White Hair, and received acclaim for her portrayal of Lian Nishang. The same year, Ma was named the Flying Apsaras Award for Outstanding Actress for her performance in both Beijing Youth and Beauty of Innocence; becoming the first Chinese actress born after the 1980s to nab a win at both the Flying Apsaras Awards and Golden Eagle Awards. Due to her successful performance in various television series, Ma was named the "Television Figure of the Year" at the China TV Drama Awards.

In 2014, Ma co-starred in the comedy film Breakup Buddies; her breakthrough performance as a loud-mouth and couth prostitute earned positive reviews and she won the Best Supporting Actress awards at the Chinese American Film Festival and China Film Festival London. Ma also guest-starred in the historical drama The Legend of Mi Yue (2015), wherein she played her first antagonist role.

Feng Chang was born on 6 April 1923 in Harbin, China. He was an actor and assistant director, known for The Warmth of an Old House (1984), The Return (2019) and Yin gu (1969). He was married to Chang Yao. He died on 6 February 2022 in Taiwan.

Jenny Guo was born on 8 January 1982 in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China. She is an actress, known for The Holy Pearl (2011), Startling by Each Step (2011) and Unruly qiao (2011).

Chun Yang was born on 25 September 1935 in Harbin, China. He was an actor and producer, known for The Escape (1972), Storm Over the Yangtse River (1969) and The Golden Lotus (1974). He died on 24 October 2022 in Hong Kong.

Li Ao was born on 25 April 1935 in Harbin, Manchukuo. He was a writer, known for My Old Classmate (2014) and Kangxi lai le (2004). He was married to Wang Zhihui and Terry Hu. He died on 18 March 2018 in Taipei, Taiwan.

Shuang Wang was born on 13 February 1991 in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China. She is an actress, known for Struggle on the Wulinclen (2015), Why Women Love (2022) and Well-Intended Love (2019).