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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
You can't outrun your destiny.
Shang-Chi must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization.
  • Released on 09/01/2021 (Movie)
  • 7.5 out of 10 (9463 votes on TMDB)
  • Action / Adventure / Fantasy
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Simu Liu

Character's name: "Shaun / Shang-Chi"
Birthday: 04/19/1989
Birthplace: Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
Biography:
Simu Liu (born 19 April 1989) is a Canadian actor, writer, and stuntman. He is known for his performance as Jung Kim in the award-winning CBC Television sitcom Kim's Convenience. He received nominations at the ACTRA Awards and Canadian Screen Awards for his work in Blood and Water. He portrays Shang-Chi in the 2021 Marvel Cinematic Universe film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.

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Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

Character's name: "Xu Wenwu"
Birthday: 06/27/1962
Birthplace: Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China]
Biography:
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai (born 27 June 1962) is a Hong Kong actor and singer. He is considered one of Asia's most successful and internationally recognised actors and was named as "Small Tiger" among the Five Tiger Generals of TVB. He has won many international acting prizes, including the Cannes Film Festival award for Best Actor for his performance in Wong Kar-wai's film In the Mood for Love. Leung is widely considered the best native Hong Kong actor of his generation. He was named by CNN as one of "Asia's 25 Greatest Actors of All Time". Leung is known for his collaborations with director Wong Kar-wai, with whom he has worked in seven films including Chungking Express (1994), Happy Together (1997), In the Mood for Love (2000), and The Grandmaster (2013). He also appeared in three Venice Film Festival Golden Lion-winning films, including A City of Sadness (1989), Cyclo (1995) and Lust, Caution (2007), directed by Ang Lee. Leung also stars in the Academy Award-nominated film Hero, and the box office hits Hard Boiled (1992) and Infernal Affairs (2002). Leung was cast as the Mandarin in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021). Leung has a comprehensive set of awards that he has won in a career that began in the 1980s. For In the Mood for Love, Leung earned the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival. He is also a seven-time winner at the Hong Kong Film Awards and three-time winner at the Golden Horse Film Awards, holding the record for most awards in the Best Actor category. The 2002 book East Asian Film Stars describes Leung as "undoubtedly one of the most successful and widely-acclaimed Hong Kong actors of his generation, with a broad and diverse filmography."

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Awkwafina

Character's name: "Katy"
Birthday: 06/02/1988
Birthplace: Stony Brook, Brookhaven, New York, USA
Biography:
Nora Lum (born June 2, 1988), known professionally as Awkwafina (/ˌɔːkwəˈfiːnə/), is an American actress, comedian and rapper. She rose to prominence in 2012 when her rap song "My Vag" became popular on YouTube. She then released her debut album, Yellow Ranger (2014), and appeared on the MTV comedy series Girl Code (2014–2015). She expanded to films with supporting roles in the comedies Neighbours 2: Sorority Rising (2016), Ocean's 8 (2018), Crazy Rich Asians (2018), and Jumanji: The Next Level (2019). For her starring role as a grieving young woman in The Farewell (2019), she won a Golden Globe Award. Since 2020, Awkwafina has been a co-creator, writer, and executive producer of the Comedy Central series Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens, where she also plays a fictionalised version of herself. In 2021, she portrayed Katy in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. She has also performed voice roles in the animated films Storks (2016), The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019), Raya and the Last Dragon (2021), The Bad Guys (2022), The Little Mermaid, Migration (both 2023), Kung Fu Panda 4, and IF (both 2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Awkwafina, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Ben Kingsley

Character's name: "Trevor Slattery"
Birthday: 12/31/1943
Birthplace: Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
Biography:
Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji; 31 December 1943) is an English actor. He has received accolades throughout his career spanning five decades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Grammy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards, as well as nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards and two Laurence Olivier Awards. Kingsley was appointed Knight Bachelor in 2002 for services to the British film industry. He was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010 and received the Britannia Award in 2013. Born to an English mother and an Indian Gujarati father with roots in Jamnagar, Kingsley began his career in theatre, joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967 and spending the next 15 years appearing mainly on stage. His starring roles included productions of As You Like It (his West End debut for the company at the Aldwych Theatre in 1967), Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Also known for his television roles, he received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his performances in Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story (1989), Joseph (1995), Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001), and Mrs. Harris (2006). In film, Kingsley is known for his starring role as Mahatma Gandhi in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi (1982), for which he subsequently won the Academy Award for Best Actor and BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. For his portrayal of Itzhak Stern in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List (1993), he received a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role nomination. He was Oscar-nominated for Bugsy (1990), Sexy Beast (2000), and House of Sand and Fog (2003). His other notable films include Maurice (1987), Sneakers (1992), Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993), Death and the Maiden (1994), Twelfth Night (1996), Tuck Everlasting (2002), Elegy (2008), Shutter Island (2010), and Hugo (2011). Kingsley played the character of Trevor Slattery in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, appearing in Iron Man 3 (2013), Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), and the upcoming Disney+ series Wonder Man. He also acted in the blockbusters Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010) and Ender's Game (2013). Kingsley lent his voice to the films The Boxtrolls (2014) and The Jungle Book (2016). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ben Kingsley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Meng'er Zhang

Character's name: "Xialing"
Birthday: 04/22/1987
Birthplace: Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Biography:
Meng'er Zhang (Chinese: 张梦儿; pinyin: Zhāng Mèng'er; born April 22, 1987) is a Chinese actress best known for portraying Xu Xialing in the 2021 Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Description above from the Wikipedia article Meng'er Zhang, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Fala Chen

Character's name: "Li"
Birthday: 02/24/1982
Birthplace: Chengdu, China
Biography:
Fala Chen, born 24 February 1982, is a Hong Kong actress previously under contract with TVB. She is a 2018 graduate of The Juilliard School. A former beauty pageant titleholder, Chen holds the titles of Miss Asian America 2002 and Miss NY Chinese 2004. She was placed as the 1st runner-up in Miss Chinatown USA 2003 and in Miss Chinese International 2005.

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Michelle Yeoh

Character's name: "Ying Nan"
Birthday: 08/06/1962
Birthplace: Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia
Biography:
Michelle Yeoh Choo Kheng (born Yeoh Choo Kheng; 6 August 1962) is a Malaysian actress. Credited as Michelle Khan in her early films in Hong Kong, she rose to fame in the 1990s after starring in a series of Hong Kong action films where she performed her own stunts, such as Yes, Madam (1985), Magnificent Warriors (1987), Police Story 3: Supercop (1992), The Heroic Trio (1993), and Holy Weapon (1993). After moving to the United States, Yeoh gained recognition for starring in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in Ang Lee's martial arts film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), for which she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. For her role as an overwhelmed mother navigating the multiverse in Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the first Asian woman to win the award. Yeoh won a Golden Globe Award and a SAG Award as well. Her performance also garnered her nominations for a BAFTA Award and a Critics’ Choice Movie Award, among other accolades. Yeoh's other notable works include Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), Sunshine (2007), The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008), Reign of Assassins (2010), Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011), and The Lady (2011), where she portrayed Aung San Suu Kyi. She played supporting roles in the romantic comedies Crazy Rich Asians (2018) and Last Christmas (2019), the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2 (2017) and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), Gunpowder Milkshake (2021), Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022), The School for Good and Evil (2022), Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023), A Haunting in Venice (2023), Wicked: Part One and Two (2024 and 2025), and Avatar 3 and its sequels (2025 onwards). In television, Yeoh has starred in Marco Polo (2014-2016), Star Trek: Discovery (2017–2020), The Witcher: Blood Origin (2022), American Born Chinese (2023) and The Brothers Sun (2024).

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Yuen Wah

Character's name: "Master Guang Bo"
Birthday: 09/02/1950
Birthplace: Hong Kong, China
Biography:
Yuen Wah (born 2 September 1950) is a Hong Kong based Chinese action film actor, action choreographer, stuntman and martial artist who has appeared in over 160 films and over 20 television series. Was a member of the "Seven Little Fortunes" performance troupe in Yu Jim-Yuen's China Drama Academy's Peking Opera School. Was a member of the Sammo Hung Stuntmen's Association. Description above from the Wikipedia article Yuen Wah, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Florian Munteanu

Character's name: "Razor Fist"
Birthday: 10/13/1990
Birthplace: Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany
Biography:
Florian Munteanu (born 13 October 1990), also known by his ring name Big Nasty, is a German-Romanian actor, model, and former heavyweight boxer. He is widely known for his role as the boxer Viktor Drago in Creed 2, the son of former Soviet boxer Ivan Drago, from 1985's Rocky IV. He also played Razor Fist in the 2021 Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.

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Andy Le

Character's name: "Death Dealer"
Birthday: 10/14/1991
Birthplace: Vietnam
Biography:
Andy Le is a southern Californian actor, producer, and stunt performer who has worked in multiple films. Le has starred in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, The Paper Tigers, and his only self-produced project the Supreme Art of War. Andy also appeared in Wu-Tang: An American Saga as Fang. In 2011, Andy co-founded a martial arts club called "Martial Club" (disambiguation), which went on to direct stunts for multiple movies including Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and Everything Everywhere All at Once with Michelle Yeoh. Despite his part in creating the club, Le has done multiple solo-stunting jobs without the group.

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Paul He

Character's name: "Chancellor Hui"
Birthday: 01/03/2025

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Jayden Tianyi Zhang

Character's name: "Young Shang-Chi"
Birthday: 06/30/2009
Birthplace: Canada

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Elodie Fong

Character's name: "Young Xialing"
Birthday: 01/03/2025

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Arnold Sun

Character's name: "Teen Shang-Chi"
Birthday: 01/03/2025

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Stephanie Hsu

Character's name: "Soo"
Birthday: 11/25/1990
Birthplace: Torrance, California, USA
Biography:
Stephanie Ann Hsu (born November 25, 1990) is an American actress. She trained at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and began her career in experimental theatre before starring on Broadway, originating the roles of Christine Canigula in Be More Chill (2015–2019) and Karen the Computer in SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical (2016–2017). In television, she is known for her recurring roles in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2019–2023) and Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens (2020–2021). Hsu received critical acclaim and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her dual role as Joy Wang and Jobu Tupaki in the film Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022). Her performance also garnered her nominations for a Golden Globe Award, a SAG Award and a Critics’ Choice Movie Award. Other notable film and television credits include supporting roles in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017-2023), Set It Up (2018), Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), Poker Face (2023), Shortcomings (2023), American Born Chinese (2023), Joy Ride (2023), The Monkey King (2023), Leo (2023), and The Fall Guy (2024).


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