Anya(I)
- Actress
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 series,as Jordan Chan's wife, Nanako. Relocating
to Hong Kong, Anya's profile has increased swiftly with Golden
Harvest's support. She has since had larger roles in several of the
studio's post-millenium efforts. She appeared as one of Ekin Cheng's
many girls in For Bad Boys Only and in 2001 took more action-oriented
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 "remake/sequel" to Naked Killer, titled Naked Weapon as Kat, the
best friend to Charlene, Maggie Q's 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 Hark's thriller Vampire Hunters as Sasa. After the liquidation
of Golden Harvest's 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 Taiwan's
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 co-productions with China and foreign production companies.
