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简介

Poppy Liu is a Chinese-American actress, activist, and poet. She was born in Xi'an, China, and her family moved to Minnesota when she was two years old, where her father was an engineering professor. The family returned to China when she was fourteen, and she attended an American school in Shanghai, where she developed an early interest in performance through Chinese dance, ballet, and theater. Liu attended Colgate University, majoring in women's studies and theater. After graduating, she founded the production company Collective Sex, focusing on decolonized stories and destigmatizing sex and identity. In 2018, her short film "Names of Women" premiered in New York and toured college campuses and reproductive institutions nationwide. In 2019, she starred in the NBC sitcom "Morningside" which later moved to Hulu, and appeared in "New Amsterdam," "Law & Order: SVU," and "Better Call Saul." In 2021, she played a blackjack dealer in the HBO Max sitcom "The Sex Lives of College Girls." Liu is a doula providing free services to women of color and transgender individuals, and is queer and non-binary. In 2019, she was named one of "The Advocate's" Pride Champions.