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8	->''"I always find making the initial transition from film back to theatre slightly overwhelming because of the physical freedom being on a stage allows after having been confined to the edges of a lens for a period of time. But you learn to embrace and to own the space pretty quickly once rehearsals are underway."''
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10	Katie Liu Leung (born 8 August 1987 in Motherwell, Scotland) is a Scottish actress of Chinese ancestry.
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13	Katie is best known for her roles as Cho Chang in the ''Film/HarryPotter'' series and Caitlyn Kiramman in ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}''. Leung was born in Dundee to Peter, who was a businessman, and Kar Wai Li Leung, who works in a law firm. Her parents are now divorced. She was raised in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire. An immigrant from Hong Kong, her father owns a successful Chinese restaurant named Regent in Glasgow and a Chinese wholesale firm named Jade Palace Trading. She attended secondary school at Hamilton College.
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15	Katie's father saw an advertisement for a ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' casting call, and suggested she should try out. She waited four hours in line for a five-minute audition, and said that she would rather be shopping than stand in line for a role she was almost certain she wouldn't get. Two weeks later, she was called back for a workshop and was cast as Cho Chang, in the process beating out over 4,500 other girls for the part. She stated in an interview with the Daily Record that her Scottish accent probably gave her an edge in the casting.
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17	She appeared in ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'' in which she and Creator/DanielRadcliffe (Literature/HarryPotter) shared an on-screen kiss that received much media coverage. She later appeared in both parts of ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows''. Leung has contributed her voice to the video games ''VideoGame/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'' and ''VideoGame/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince''.
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19	In July 2007, Katie Leung was cast by Gold Label Records, a subsidiary of EMI in Hong Kong, to be the female lead in the music video Love Coming Home (愛回家) by LeoKu. Leung filmed the video in London while promoting the then-new ''Harry Potter'' film. Ku described Leung's acting as "professional" and "mature." Leung played Hsui Tai in the episode "Cat Among the Pigeons" of Creator/{{ITV}}'s Agatha Christie's ''Series/{{Poirot}}'', which premiered on ITV on 21 September 2008. Leung has been named as Scotland's most stylish female and as the hottest Scotswoman by ''The Scotsman''. She has also been featured in ''TeenVogue'' and in the ''EveningStandard''.
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21	Since 2021, she has voiced Caitlyn Kiramman in the Creator/{{Netflix}} hit cartoon ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}''. She is also currently starring in both ''Series/{{Annika\|2021}}'' and ''Series/{{The Peripheral\|2022}}''.
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23	!!Select Filmography:
24	!!Films
25	* ''Film/HarryPotter'' as Cho Chang
26	** ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' (2005)
27	** ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'' (2007)
28	** ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'' (2009)
29	** ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' Part 1 (2010)
30	** ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' Part 2 (2011)
31	* ''Film/T2Trainspotting'' (2017) as Nurse
32	* ''Film/{{The Foreigner\|2017}}'' (2017) as Fan Quan
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34	!!Television
35	* ''Series/{{Poirot}}'' (2008) as Hsui Tai
36	* ''Series/Run2013'' as Ying
37	* ''Series/FatherBrown'' (2014) as Jia-Li Gerard
38	* ''Series/OneChild'' (2014) as Mei Ashley
39	* ''Series/Strangers2018'' as Lau Chen
40	* ''[[Literature/TheMoomins Moominvalley]]'' (2019-present) as Too-Ticky[[note]] English dub [[/note]]
41	* ''Series/{{Annika\|2021}}'' (2021–present) as Blair Ferguson
42	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'' (2021–present) as [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsBToC Caitlyn Kiramman]]
43	* ''Series/{{The Peripheral\|2022}}'' (2022) as Ash
44	* ''Series/TheChemistryOfDeath'' (2023) as Maggie Cassidy
45	* ''Series/{{The Wheel of Time\|2021}}'' (2023-present) as Yasicca
46	!!Video Games
47	* ''VideoGame/HarryPotter'' as Cho Chang
48	** ''VideoGame/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'' (2007)
49	** ''VideoGame/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'' (2009)
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51	!!Tropes associated with her roles:
52	* AbilityOverAppearance: Cho is implied to be English in the books (her favourite Quidditch team is a Tutshill one, which is in Gloucestershire) and the audio books give her that accent. In the films Katie uses her natural Scottish accent. She actually said that at the audition, the casting director asked if any girls were from Scotland, and she was the only one.
53	* ActorSharedBackground: In the series ''Strangers'', her character's mother worked in Hong Kong for years. Katie's mother likewise was a Hong Kong businesswoman before moving to the UK (although in-universe, the father has never been, and Katie's was likewise a Hong Kong native).
54	* TheCastShowOff: She demonstrates that she can switch between English and Mandarin in ''One Child''.
55	* CareerResurrection: Katie took a break from acting after ''Film/HarryPotter'' wrapped, and went to college for a few years. She then returned with the miniseries ''Run'' and ''One Child'' - receiving critical acclaim and being named a Breakthrough Brit of 2014 by BAFTA.
56	* FakeBrit: Despite being Scottish, she uses an English accent in ''Strangers''. In ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'', she voices Caitlyn in a British accent.
57	* FakeNationality: Technically. She's second-generation Chinese, having been born in the UK, but has played many Chinese characters.
58	* TomHanksSyndrome: Distanced herself from ''Harry Potter'' by starring in the gritty miniseries ''Run'' - where she plays an illegal immigrant who has to pay debts to a smuggling ring. There's also her role in ''One Child'' - about a murder investigation.
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