Actor Simu Liu, that played among several Kens in the Barbie motion picture, will certainly host the People’s Choice Awards in Santa Monica, California, on Sunday. 

Liu is up for a flick efficiency of the year honor in the yearly occasion that’s akin to an appeal competition, where public ballots identify the champions.

The host informed U.S.A. Today he prepares to “punch up” with his jokes and not aspersion any person. That expands particularly to pop super star Taylor Swift after a repartee at her cost by Golden Globe’s host Jo Koy failed. Liu, that informed Variety he’s a “Swiftie,” assured in a message on X, previously Twitter, that “there will be no Taylor slander.” 

Liu additionally teased a feasible Barbie get-together at the program, where his co-stars Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling are additionally up for awards, informing E! News: “I would wager that we’ll see a couple people from the movie. I wanna leave a little bit to surprise as well.” Robbie and Gosling, nonetheless, will certainly not remain in presence due to the BAFTAs in London dropping on the very same day.

Here’s everything you require to find out about Liu. 

Simu Liu opened about his youth in his 2022 publication

The 34-year-old was birthed in Harbin, China, and at first increased by his grandparents as his mommy operated in Beijing and his daddy arrived to the U.S. and after that Canada, where his moms and dads brought Liu to join them when he was 4 and a fifty percent years of ages. Liu stated his history and childhood in his 2022 narrative We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story. 

Liu matured in Mississauga, Ontario, where his moms and dads ended up being effective aerospace designers. In his narrative, Liu composed he played the excellent kid––obtaining straight A’s, winning nationwide mathematics competitors, and making his moms and dads pleased. According to a 2022 meeting and publication testimonial with The Guardian, Liu really felt “guilty and very worthless” when maturing, due to stress imposed on him by his moms and dads. The Guardian reported he had a great partnership with his moms and dads by the time guide appeared, and talked to them on its materials.

After university, he finished from the Richard Ivey School of Business in London, Ontario, and helped bookkeeping company Deloitte for almost a year, yet obtained discharged. It was then that he changed to acting. 

Simu Liu’s motion pictures and television profile varies from Marvel to comedies

According to a meeting with TIME, he obtained his initial cinema duty by addressing a Craigslist advertisement to play an added in Guillermo del Toro’s 2013 movie Pacific Rim when it was firing in Toronto. 

His break-out duty remained in the comedy Kim’s Convenience, which focused on a Korean immigrant family members that runs a corner store in Canada. (Liu and various other co-stars have actually because spoken up about what they called a racist workplace on the program). Liu played duties in various other television collection consisting of Fresh off the Boat, Awkwafina is Nora from Queens, and The Simpsons. 

He rose to fame as the lead in Marvel’s initial Asian-led superhero motion picture Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings in 2021, for which he won a People’s Choice Award, prior to snatching the duty of a Ken in the 2023 Barbie motion picture. 

Liu has actually additionally done feat job and composed and made his very own brief movies. He’s obtained popularity and wide range recently, with Celebrity Net Worth approximating his total assets as $4 million. 

He’s energetic in campaigning for and charity job 

According to UNICEF Canada’s X account, Liu is an ambassador for the kids’s charity. He additionally deals with KultureCity, a charity whose objective declaration is to stabilize neurodivergency and make performances and sporting activities video games obtainable to everybody, he claimed on X. That consisted of contributing a sensory area for children at Chase Center, home of the Golden State Warriors basketball group, to take a “quick timeout.”

He’s additionally spoken up versus anti-Asian hate and the demand for even more variety and Asian depiction in Hollywood. 

This is not Simu Liu’s initial organizing job

Liu made it on the TIME100 listing of the 100 most prominent individuals on the planet in 2022 and organized TIME’s gala that year to commemorate the listing. He additionally organized the 2023 Juno Awards, Canada’s leading awards reveal. He’s additionally guest-hosted an episode of Jimmy Kimmel: Live, substituting the late-night host throughout summer season 2022.

Liu proclaimed his sweetheart on Valentine’s Day with a Taylor Swift-motivated article

The 5’11’’ star has actually been dating sweetheart Allison Hsu because late 2022. Hsu is an elderly supervisor in electronic advertising and marketing for Interscope Records, taking care of electronic and social for Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga and extra, according to Forbes, that called her to its 30 under 30––Music listing in 2022. 

Earlier today, Liu uploaded an image on Instagram of the pair at the Super Bowl with an inscription that he would certainly “fly in from Tokyo for your Super Bowl any day,” a recommendation to Swift jetting from her scenic tour in Tokyo to Las Vegas to see her sweetheart, Kansas City Chiefs’ gamer Travis Kelce and his group, win.