Natasha Liu Bordizzo (born August 25, 1994 in Australia) is an Australian actress and fashion model. She is of Chinese and Italian descent.
She'd best known for playing the character of Snow Vase in Netflix's Wuxia film Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny and for playing Helena Wu in the mystery fantasy teen drama The Society. In 2022, she was cast as the live-action incarnation of Sabine Wren from Star Wars Rebels in the 2023 Disney+ series Ahsoka.
Filmography
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Live-Action Films
- Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny (2016) as Snow Vase
- On That Night While We Dream (2017) as Master Yu
- The Greatest Showman (2017) as Deng Yan
- Detective Chinatown 2 (2018) as Officer Chen Ying
- Armour (2018) as Riva
- Hotel Mumbai (2018) as Bree
- Guns Akimbo (2019) as Nova Alexander
- The Naked Wanderer (2019) as Valerie
- The Voyeurs (2021) as Julia
- Day Shift (2022) as Heather
Live-Action Series
- The Society (2019) as Helena Wu
- Most Dangerous Game (2020) as Kennedy
- Ahsoka (2023) as Sabine Wren
Voice Acting
- Wish Dragon (2021) as Li Na
- Heroes Of The Golden Masks (2022) as Li
Tropes
- Action Girl: She's played female action-oriented characters in many of her roles, usually martial arts experts due to being proficient in martial arts herself, being even a black-black belt in taekwondo. She also trained in KenpÅ karate.
- Actor-Shared Background: Her character Helena in The Society shares the same mixed ancestry, white and East Asian.
- Fake American: In Wish Dragon, she's an Australian, playing a Chinese character, but using an American accent for Li Na to be more consistent with the rest of the English voice cast, who are mostly Americans. She also played an American character on The Society.
- Fake Nationality: Due to her Chinese ancestry, she often plays characters of Asian nationalities.
- Playing Against Type: Known for playing heroes or being on the side of the protagonists, her role in Most Dangerous Game counts here, playing Kennedy, an psychotic Ax-Crazy assassin who's trying to kill the protagonist.
- Star-Making Role: Her debut role as the new protagonist in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny put her name in the acting business.
