Please refresh the page and retry. That would be her mixed heritage: her father, Peter, runs a wholesale company in Glasgow, while her mother, Kar Wai Li, is a successful Hong Kong financier. The two divorced when Leung was three. It is something that needs to be addressed. Installing more English-speaking Asian actresses on our screens would be a good start, she suggests. Yet her parts are but drops in the ocean, with only near-reaching ripples. The casting landscape is improving, she believes, but she worries not enough young Asian girls are considering the acting profession for fear they will be typecast in peripheral, Chinese-centric roles.

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The Harry Potter film series, based on the best-selling books by British author J. K Rowling, catapulted many young actors from obscurity into fame in almost no time at all. The story of a young boy, who discovers that he is a wizard, was so creative and exceptional that it won over millions of fans from every age group. But these actors are just like us, they do get up to mischief and let their hair down, and sometimes like us they take it too far. She beat out more than other girls for the part, mainly because of her unique Scottish accent. While most fans were delighted when she and Daniel Radcliffe shared their first on-screen kiss in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix , there were some that were so jealous that they created "I Hate Kate" websites and posted racist messages on her fan sites. But this is just a teaser…. Robert Pattinson started his film career playing Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in and then went on to star as the leading character, Edward Cullen, in all five of the Twilight movies.
By Benji Wilson for MailOnline. Updated: BST, 27 January Katie Leung made her debut in the biggest film franchise of all time — but then nearly walked away from acting altogether. She tells Benji Wilson why uncovering her past tempted her to return…. Before she had even left school, Katie Leung was famous as Cho Chang, the weepy girl with a bit of a temper in the Harry Potter films. She went on to appear in the remaining three Potter films, but once they were done, rather than rush off to Hollywood, Katie took a step back. Katie returned home to Motherwell in Scotland. It was there, at 16, that she had been plucked from obscurity, with no previous acting experience, to win the role of Cho — it was her father who had suggested she audition.