Friday, April 17, 2009

Katie Leung Profile

Name: Katie Leung
Birth name: Katie Liu Leung
Date of birth: August 8, 1987
Birthplace: Motherwell, Scotland
Occupation: Actress

Katie Liu Leung was born on 8 August 1987. She is a Scottish actress, best known for playing Cho Chang, Harry Potter's love interest in the film versions of the J. K. Rowling novels Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. She is set to reprise the role in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince due out 17 July 2009. Leung's father saw an advertisement for a casting call for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and suggested she try out. She waited for four hours in line for her five minute audition and said that she would rather be shopping than stand in a line with more than 4,500 girls in front of her for a role she was almost certain she wouldn't get.