A clip from the 2007 movie Kickin’ it old skool. The ‘Asian babe’ is Kira Clavell and we featured her two years ago. Her father is Irish-Spanish, mother is Filipino-Cantonese-Hawaiian-Polynesian.

Katie Liu Leung (Born August 8, 1987 in Scotland to Chinese Parents) is a Scottish actress, best known for playing Cho Chang, Harry Potter’s love interest in the Harry Potter films. Leung has been named as Scotland’s most stylish female and as the “hottest” Scotswoman by The Scotsman, a Scottish national newspaper.She attended Hamilton College, a prestigious private school located in Hamilton, Scotland. Katie’s father saw an advertisement for a casting call and suggested Katie try out. Katie objected when she saw the length of the line at the casting auditions and said she’d rather go shopping. She waited for a total of 4 hours before she got in. The audition for her only took 5 minutes and the next two weeks, she got called in for a workshop and from then on, she got the part as Cho Chang in ‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’ (2005)

Some facts:

Name: Katie Liu Leung
Date of Birth: 8 August 1987
Place of Birth: Motherwell, Scotland, UK
Ethnicity: Chinese
Height: 5′ 4½” (1.64 m)

Some Quotes:

[on acting] “I wouldn’t want to be in a film because I’m Asian. I want to get respect as an actress.”
(would she want to be on a website because she’s Asian? Or just want respect as a woman? ;-))

[on hate sites regarding her and her role in Harry Potter] “This kind of stuff is inevitable because Dan has so many female fans – millions of them – so I’m nor surprised some of them don’t like me.”
(well, now we have a fan-post which may lead to millions of male fans! ;-))

Katie on the web:

www.imdb.com
katieleungfan.com
wikipedia.org
youtube.com
google images
flickr.com

… and why is there so little information to be found about her on the web?!

Liza Lapira is an American actress who has a recurring role on NCIS as Michelle Lee. She played a secondary character on the Showtime TV series Huff. She also has several film and New York off-Broadway stage credits, in addition to many guest roles on TV.LaPira is originally from Queens, New York, and moved to Los Angeles in 2004.

LaPira appeared in director Tony Scott’s Domino as the irate Jerry Springer audience member referred to as “chinegro”. She was featured in the independent feature Big Bad Swim, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2006. LaPira’s New York stage credits include As You Like It, School For Wives, The Odyssey, and Alexandra Cunningham’s No. 11 Blue and White. Besides NCIS and Huff, her television credits include The Parkers, Without A Trace, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Sex and the City, and The Sopranos.

(source: wikipedia)

Going through some of my old photos, I came across this one of Sunghi Lee (who’s been featured and mentioned here so many times, I won’t bother with links….just use the search), taken in Suwon, South Korea on June 6th, 1998 while she was there to promote her movie A Night on the Water. Not a great film (despite a decent performance by Sunghi), but one I truly feel deserves cult status. Great soundtrack, though.I’m sure the above photo has never been seen before because I found it and the negative for it and two others, in 2001, in a envelope in a desk drawer at a former workplace in Korea. The three were taken by my former employer who was friends with the owner of the movie theater that Sunghi visited that day to meet fans and sign autographs. The top one was taken as she was signing the message that later went underneath the large framed photo you see of her in the next picture below.

Only the three photos were printed and I have them all. The two that I scanned for this entry, and the large framed one below, which is hanging on my office wall at home.

Photo of Sunghi with her handwritten message underneath

The movie theater in Suwon where the film was shown. The building was torn down a few years ago to make way for a department store. Even though A Night on the Water was shot in Canada, it was only shown at (very few) theaters in Korea.

At the movie theater in Suwon the day she went there to sign autographs and meet fans. I was stationed in Suwon at that time, but didn’t hear of her visit until after she left Korea.

Sunghi signing autographs at the theater. This photo was displayed in the lobby of the theater until shortly before the building was torn down.

Still from Sunghi’s striptease scene in A Night on the Water, where she does a sultry routine to “Keep me in Your Mind” by Carolina, which is the song you’re listening to now. Read my review of the film here.

Chelsea Emata is an aspiring singer and does some modeling. She is on the new tv show Paradise Hotel 2 on Fox TV. More pics here. (Thanks to Zamscan for this tip!)

Carrie Ann Inaba (January 5, 1968) is best known as a judge on the popular American TV show Dancing With the Stars. Carrie, who is Japanese, Chinese, and Irish, just recently turned 40.Carrie graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles. Afterward, Carrie movied to Tokyo and became a successful singer, releasing three singles. After returning to the US, Carrie pursued dancing. She appeared in tours for Madonna and Ricky Martin. Additionally, she played the role of Fook Yu in Austin Powers: Goldmember and has appeared, usually as a dancer, in a few other movies.

Carrie has choreographed the Miss America Pageant for the past five years. She has also choreographed a few TV shows, like mega-popular hit TV show American Idol.

More Photos of Carrie:

Carrie as Fook Yu in Austin Powers

Grainy image of Carrie performing in the Madonna tour, where she had to appear naked and shave her head completely. Carrie slid down a pole to open each show.

Carrie in Stuff Magazine

Carrie poses for Stuff Magazine

More of Carrie on the Web:
Carrie Ann Inaba @ myspace.com (official)
Carrie Ann Inaba @ carrieanninaba.tv (official)
Carrie Ann Inaba @ wikipedia.org
Carrie Ann Inaba @ imdb.com