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Simu Liu
4 films · 366 frames · top-billed in 4 · 2021–2025
Born 19 April 1989 · Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
Simu Liu is a Canadian actor. He rose to prominence by starring as Shang-Chi in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, debuting in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021).
Liu was born in Harbin, China, and raised in Mississauga, Ontario. He has also played Paul Xie in the Omni Television crime drama series Blood and Water—for which he was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award and an ACTRA Award—Jung Kim in the CBC Television sitcom Kim's Convenience (2016–2021), and one of the Ken dolls in the fantasy comedy film Barbie (2023). In 2022, Liu published the memoir We Were Dreamers and was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world.
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 366 frames · top-billed in 4 · 2021–2025
- Time 1002022
How their films are shot
Measured across 366 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Simu takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 48% of their frames are day, 64% natural — the look of the work Simu takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 366 frames from Simu Liu's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.