Jesseca Liu (born Lao Chew Yen on 13 February 1979) is a Malaysian actress who is based in Singapore. She is a contracted artiste under MediaCorp and managed by HIM International Music.
Jesseca Liu was born on 13 February 1979[1] in Langkawi, Malaysia, with the name Lao Chew Yen. She began modelling after graduating from Saito Academy in 2001. Languages often spoken by Liu are Cantonese, Hokkien, Mandarin, English and Malay. She finished second for a Malaysian beauty contest in 2001. Liu began acting in Malaysia in a few Chinese drama productions produced by Singapore-based companies.
Liu was spotted by a producer in MediaCorp in 2004 who offered her the meaty role of He Yi Xuan in the sports themed drama, The Champion, starring opposite Qi Yuwu and Taiwanese actors Toro and Yan Xing Shu. She then began a career as a full-time actress in Singapore.
She snagged a role in the 100-episode drama series Portrait of Home in 2005. She played a Vietnamese bride Ruan Mianmian, and starred opposite veteran thespians Adrian Pang and Louise Lee. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress and Most Popular Newcomer Award categories for the Star Awards 2005 ceremony with her role as Ruan Mianmian in Portrait of Home. She won the Most Popular Newcomer Award that year.[2]
Her first lead role was Ding Yirou in Rhapsody in Blue in 2006. She was given opportunities to play lead roles thereafter. She filmed a movie by MediaCorp Raintree Pictures back in 2007 and it was scheduled to be screened in the second quarter of 2008. However, the screening of the movie was put to a halt due to copyright problems. Liu released a book diary, Jesseca's Diary (Chinese : 绚日记) in December 2007.
In March 2011, she starred in the Channel U blockbuster of the year Secrets For Sale, alongside Christopher Lee and Lin Meijiao. She played Jiaqi, a private investigator. The 13-episode serial was produced by Wawa productions.
In October 2011, she went on to play the role of a medical doctor Yang Minfei in the medical-themed series The Oath, which is one of the highest rated series of the year. The drama also starred Christopher Lee, Ann Kok and Ix Shen. She continued to star in other Wawa productions, such as Game Plan and Disclosed, and wrote two episodes of Let It Go.
Liu's contract with MediaCorp expired in May 2010. She then went on to sign a contract with HIM International Music (Singapore) in the same year, while managing her family's spa business.[3][4] Her first production under her new company was Channel U's feature film, Lost and Found, 小孩·狗, in 2010 with Taiwan's popular child star Xiao Xiao Bin and Taiwanese idol James Wen Sheng Hao.[2] The film garnered the highest viewership amongst the other two feature films aired, starring Mediacorp actresses Joanne Peh and Felicia Chin respectively.
She then filmed Mediacorp Channel U's 2011 blockbuster drama, Secrets For Sale 《拍·卖》as the lead actress alongside Mediacorp actors Christopher Lee and Thomas Ong.
Together with Olivia Ong, she sang the theme song for The Silver Tribute Charity Night which was aired "live" on MediaCorp Channel 8 on 5 June 2011. This marked her first appearance on a live programme since Star Awards 2010.
Liu recently signed a new acting contract with Mediacorp in 2015 and starred in a new Wawa production called The Queen.
In 2017, she was involved in a drama called Hero where she played as a female lead with many cameo appearance in the drama, which helped her gain a nomination for Best Actress. She also got involved in a drama called Eat Already? 2 where she played a cameo appearance as a doctor.
In 2018, she filmed two dramas called Mind Matters with Qi Yuwu and another drama called Babies On Board with Tay Ping Hui.
In recent years, she has started in several dramas which include Soul Detective, Crouching Toger Hidden Ghost, where she acted alongside her husband, Jeremy Chan, The Takedown, and Loving You.
Liu married Jeremy Chan on 16 July 2017.[5][6]
