Anya

Anya Wu was born on February 17th in 1976 in Taiwan She moved to the United States together with her family by the age of 6 She was raised in New York City and was discovered by a record company to become a singer back in Taiwan While she was in Taiwan and preparing for her album release Anya became the first girl DJ in Taiwan clubs She caught alot of media attention even media from Hong Kong With so much public attention her interview in a magazine caught the eye of Director Jingle Ma who then convinced Golden Harvest a film production distribution and exhibition company to relocate her to Hong Kong and sign her Unfortunately by the time they found her he had already started Moi Moi Cha the movie in which he had wanted her for So her debut film became Born To Be King the final installment of the Young Dangerous seriesas Jordan Chans wife Nanako Relocating to Hong Kong Anyas profile has increased swiftly with Golden Harvests support She has since had larger roles in several of the studios postmillenium efforts She appeared as one of Ekin Chengs many girls in For Bad Boys Only and in 2001 took more actionoriented roles in two hot action films Sharp Guns and 2002 where her Fire Ghost menaced Stephen Fung and Nicholas Tse She went on to become one of the top upcoming actresses in both Hong Kong and Taiwan and with her undoubtable gorgeous looks has also graced numerous magazine covers print ads and TV shows in both regions In 2002 Anya began work on the remakesequel to Naked Killer titled Naked Weapon as Kat the best friend to Charlene Maggie Qs character She also recently worked in HK on a stage play Glengarry Glenross in which she took on the challenging role of Blake that has been always played by a man Tickets were sold out and another day had to be added Afterwards she starred in Tsui Harks thriller Vampire Hunters as Sasa After the liquidation of Golden Harvests talent agency Anya decided to go back to her native Taiwan and experiment on some TV series there There she did starred in a TV series called Pink Godfather as well as Taiwans version of Sex And The City where she played Samantha After being there for a year she realized that her focus was still more in films and headed to join the fierce competitive but growing industry in China Being fluent in Chinese as well as English her current works are on coproductions with China and foreign production companies