50 Most Beautiful Asian Female Celebrities

From powerful businesswomen to gorgeous leading ladies and sexy models, without a doubt, Asian women have been some of the most beautiful and talented celebrities in the world. The ladies mentioned here not only have gorgeous, hot, and sexy looks but they are also working hard, charitable, and smart. What are you waiting for? Check them out!

1. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Name	Aishwarya Rai
Date of birth	November 1, 1973
Place of birth	Mangalore, Karnataka, India
Occupation	Actress

Aishwarya Rai is an Indian actress. She won an international supermodel contest organized by Ford and was eventually featured in the edition for America of Vogue in 1991. In 1993, Rai got giant public recognition for her participation in a Pepsi advertisement with actors Mahima Chaudhry and Aamir Khan. The single line – “Hi, I’m Sanjana,” of her dialogue in the advertisement made her immediately famous.

2. Marian Rivera

Name	Marian Rivera Gracia
Date of birth	August 12, 1984
Place of birth	Madrid, Spain
Occupation	Actress, commercial model and entrepreneur

Marian Rivera Gracia was born on August 12, 1984  in Madrid, Spain. She is a Spanish-Filipina actress, commercial model and entrepreneur. Although she was born in Spain, she grew up in the Philippines. 

With her beauty and talent, she appeared in many films such as: MariMar, Dyesebel, Amaya, Darna, Temptation of Wife,  My Bestfriend’s Girlfriend, You to Me Are Everything, and Panday 2. She was selected as one of the members of the selection committee at the Miss Universe 2021. 

3. Pia Wurtzbach

Name	Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach
Date of birth	September 24, 1989
Place of birth	Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany
Occupation	Model, actress and beauty queen

Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach (born September 24, 1989) is known as a model, actress and beauty queen of Miss Universe 2015. Although her birth place is Germany, she grew up and was raised in the Philippines and England. Thus, she can speak  fluent Cebuano, English and Tagalog but basic German. 

She started her career when she was four with the name Pia Romeo and appeared in many films and sitcoms such as: Bora, Sa Piling Mo, ASAP, All my life, All about love and then joined in Miss Universe Pageant. She became the queen of Miss Universe 2015.

4. Gong Li

Name	Gong Li
Date of birth	December 31, 1965
Place of birth	Shenyang, Liaoning, China
Occupation	Actress

Gong Li who was born on December 31, 1965, is a Chinese actress. In 1987, she was first chosen by director Zhang Yimou to participate in the anti-Japanese war romance Red Sorghum, which officially started her fifteen-year cooperation with China’s 5th-generation directors. The movie won the Golden Bear at the 38th Berlin International Film Festival, becoming the first movie from China to win this award.

5. Michelle Yeoh

Name	Yeoh Choo Kheng
Date of birth	August 6, 1962
Place of birth	Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia
Occupation	Actress

Yeoh Choo Kheng was born in Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia. In 1983, at the age 20, she won the Miss Malaysia World contest. She represented Malaysia at Miss World 1983 pageant in London, in which she overall placed at the 18th position over 72 participants from all around the world. Later that year, Michelle traveled to Australia and won Miss Moomba International 1984 pageant. From there, she participated in a TV commercial with Jackie Chan, catching the attention of a fledgling Hong Kong film production company, D&B Films.

6. Ziyi Zhang

Name	Zhang Ziyi
Date of birth	February 9, 1979
Place of birth	Beijing, China
Occupation	Actress, model

On February 9, 1979, Zhang Ziyi was born and grew up in Beijing, China, to Li Zhousheng, a kindergarten teacher, and Zhang Yuanxiao, an accountant and later economist. She has an older brother who is very close to her. Zhang started studying dance at the age of 8; subsequently, she joined the Beijing Dance Academy at her parents’ suggestion when she was 11 years old.

7. Zhou Xun

Name	Zhou Xun
Date of birth	October 18, 1974
Place of birth	Quzhou, Zhejiang, China
Occupation	Actress

Zhou Xun was born on October 18, 1974 in Quzhou, Zhejiang, China. She is a famous actress from China. People know her well as one of the Four Dan Actresses of China. Her international fame gained from Suzhou River (2000) and Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002). She was the first Chinese  to win the “Grand Slam” and won three biggest awards such as: the Golden Horse Awards, the Hong Kong Film Awards and the Golden Rooster Awards.

8. Lee Young Ae

Name	Lee Young-ae
Date of birth	January 31, 1971
Place of birth	Seoul, South Korea
Occupation	Actress

Lee Young-ae was born on January 31, 1971 in Seoul, South Korea. She is a famous actress in South Korea and Asia as well. She is best known for her appearances in the Korean historical drama Dae Jang Geum (2003) and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005).

Although she started her career as a model, she has been famous for acting career. She has received many awards such as: Best Actress awards at the 38th Sitges Film Festival,[3] 26th Blue Dragon Film Awards and 42nd Baeksang Arts Awards. 

9. Song Hye Kyo 

Name	Song Hye-Kyo
Date of birth	November 22, 1981
Place of birth	Daegu, South Korea
Occupation	Actress

Actress Song Hye-Kyo was born on November 22, 1981, in Daegu, South Korea. After being born, she was so ill that doctors and her parents thought that she would not survive. Upon her miracle recovery, Song’s parents registered her birth on February 26, 1982 although her actual birthdate was November 22, 1981. Unfortunately, her parents divorced when she was very young, after which she grew up with her mother.

10. Son Ye-jin

Name	Son Eon-jin
Date of birth	January 11, 1982
Place of birth	Suseong District, Daegu, South Korea
Occupation	Actress

On January 11, 1982, actress Son Eon-jin was born in Suseong District, Daegu, South Korea. The most successful role of her early career was in the subsequent movies Lovers’ Concerto and The Classic. Both were solid mid-level hits in Korea, and The Classic in particular — being a work of My Sassy Girl director Kwak Jae-yong — received wide recognition in regions such as Hong Kong and mainland China, and launched her into East Asia stardom.

11. Kim Tae Hee

Name	Kim Tae-Hee
Date of birth	March 29, 1980
Place of birth	Ulsan, South Korea
Occupation	Actress

Actress Kim Tae-Hee was born in Ulsan, South Korea. In 2000, a promotion executive saw her riding the subway, and offered her to be a model. Kim participated in TV commercials and print ads, before making her acting first appearance with a cameo role in the 2001 melodrama Last Present. She starred in the short movie Living in New Town and the sitcom Let’s Go in 2002, followed by A Problem at My Younger Brother’s House and Screen in 2003.

12. Lisa BlackPink

Name	Pranpriya Manobal
Date of birth	March 27, 1997
Place of birth	Buriram, Thailand
Occupation	Rapper, singer, dancer

Lisa was born Pranpriya Manobal on March 27, 1997, in Buriram, Thailand. In August 2016, she first appeared as 1 of 4 members of South Korean girl group Blackpink, as well as the first ever non-ethnically Korean to debut under the agency. Blackpink started with the single album Square One with lead singles “Boombayah” and “Whistle”. “Whistle” achieved a perfect “all-kill”, peaking all South Korean charts upon debut.

13. Park Min Young

Name	Park Min-young
Date of birth	March 4, 1986
Place of birth	Seoul, South Korea
Occupation	Actress

Park Min-young was born on March 4, 1986. In 2005, She made her first appearance in a SK Telecom commercial. She started her acting career a year later in the hit sitcom High Kick! in 2006. She continued to participate in TV dramas, in many roles such as the only daughter of a notorious gangster in I Am Sam in 2007, and a gumiho, which is a nine-tailed fox in Korean mythology in one episode of horror-themed drama Hometown of Legends in 2008, she also starred as a villainous princess in the period drama Ja Myung Go in 2009.

14. Ha Ji Won

Name	Jeon Hae-rim
Date of birth	June 28, 1978
Place of birth	Seoul, South Korea
Occupation	Actress

Jeon Hae-rim was born in Seoul, South Korea. In 2010, after making a four-year break from dramas, she had a very successful comeback through the hit drama, Secret Garden, written by well-known writer Kim Eun-sook. Ha starred as a stunt woman, who magically switches bodies with a wealthy CEO character in that drama. Proven to be a commercial success, the drama series got high domestic ratings and garnered much interest regarding its catchphrases, fashion and music.

15. Park Shin Hye

Name	Park Shin-hye
Date of birth	February 18, 1990
Place of birth	Nam District, Gwangju, South Korea
Occupation	Actress, singer

Born on February 18, 1990,  in Nam District, Gwangju, Park Shin-hye was raised in Songpa District, Seoul. She has an older brother, Park Shin-won, a composer and guitarist. In 2001 and 2003 respectively, she made her first two appearances in the MVs “Flower” and “…Do You Love Me!”, both by singer Lee Seung-hwan. Park then underwent formal training in dancing, singing and acting under supervision at Dream Factory.

16. Vicky Zhao

Name	Zhao Wei
Date of birth	March 12, 1976
Place of birth	Wuhu, Anhui, China
Occupation	Actress, businesswoman, film director, producer, pop singer

Zhao Wei was born on March 12, 1976. In 1997,  producer and novelist Chiung Yao was cast in the television series My Fair Princess, a joint production by Taiwan and mainland China which was adapted from her own novel. She identified Zhao Wei as a talent after watching Sisters in Beijing and offered Zhao the lead role of Huan Zhu Ge Ge (Princess Pearl) a.k.a. Xiao Yanzi (“Little Swallow”), a funny and rebellious princess who dared to challenge rules and authority in the palace.

17. Ruby Lin

Name	Ruby Lin Xin-ru
Date of birth	January 27, 1976
Place of birth	Taipei, Taiwan
Occupation	Actress, singer, producer

Ruby Lin Xin-ru was born on January 27, 1976. After playing small roles in many series and movies, she was selected by Taiwanese writer Chiung Yao to play as the main role in the comedic period drama My Fair Princess, a joint production by Taiwan and mainland China which was adapted from director Chiung Yao’s novel. Originally picked to star as Princess Saiya, Lin was finally chosen by the company to play Xia Ziwei instead, as the actress scheduled to play the lead role was unavailable.

18. Fan Bing Bing

Name	Fan BingBing
Date of birth	September 16, 1981
Place of birth	Yantai, Shandong, China
Occupation	Actress

Chinese actress Fan BingBing was born on September 16, 1981. She first appeared in the TV series Powerful Woman and played minor roles for 2 years, before gaining public attention in 1999 for her supporting role as Jin Suo in the first 2 seasons of the Chinese TV series My Fair Princess, adapted from Taiwanese writer Chiung Yao’s story. Fan was recommended by Hong Kong actress Leanne Liu to participate in the cast.

19. Lee Hyori

Name	Lee Hyo-ri
Date of birth	May 10, 1979
Place of birth	Cheongwon, South Korea
Occupation	Singer, record producer, activist, actress, television presenter

Lee Hyo-ri was born on May 10, 1979. During breakthroughs in her solo music career, she also hosted many TV programs, including Time Machine and Happy Together, which she co-hosted with Yoo Jae-suk in 2006. On April 8, 2008, Lee participated in KBS’s Sang Sang Plus as a co-host alongside Country Kko Kko members Tak Jae-hoon and Shin Jung-hwan. Before leaving in early July, she was one of the initial co-hosts of Change, a show on SBS’s Good Sunday line-up.

20. Charmaine Sheh

Name	Charmaine Sheh Sze-Man
Date of birth	May 28, 1975
Place of birth	Hong Kong
Occupation	Actress, singer

Charmaine Sheh Sze-Man was born on May 28, 1975, in Hong Kong. In 2006, she became the first TVB actress to achieve two major awards at the same TVB Anniversary Awards ceremony, clinching My Favorite Female TV Character and the Best Actress Award for her participation in Maidens’ Vow. Sheh also won the Top Four Actresses Award with Zhao Wei, Ruby Lin and Liu Yifei.

21. Metinee Kingpayom

Name	Metinee Washington Kingpayome
Date of birth	June 11, 1972
Place of birth	Maryland, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, model ,producer, runway coach, TV presenter

Metinee Washington Kingpayome was born on June 11, 1972, in Maryland, U.S. to a Thai father and  an American mother. She was raised in Queens, New York city with three younger brothers.

After winning the Miss Thailand World title, Kingpayom represented Thailand at the Miss World pageant in South Africa in 1992. There, she was crowned Continental Queen of Asia & Oceania. 

22. Davika Hoorne

Name	Davika Hoorne
Date of birth	May 16, 1992
Place of birth	Bangkok, Thailand
Occupation	Actress, model, singer, YouTuber

Davika Hoorne was born in Bangkok, Thailand. She gained public recognition from her movies; Heart Attack with Sunny Suwanmethanon and Suddenly Twenty. She is also the female lead star of Thailand’s highest-grossing movie of all time, Pee Mak alongside Mario Maurer. Hoorne has collaborated with Korean singer Ali in a music video entitled No Way under Genie Music. She has also collaborated with Vietnamese singer Sơn Tùng M-TP in the music video Run Now or Chạy Ngay Đi in Vietnamese.

23. Victoria Song

Name	Song Qian
Date of birth	February 2, 1987
Place of birth	Qingdao, Shandong, China
Occupation	Singer, dancer, actress, model, host, author

Song Qian was born in Qingdao, Shandong, China. In September 2007, she was first scouted by an SM Entertainment casting agent while participating in a dance competition in Beijing and eventually cast into SM Entertainment after passing the audition under SM Casting System. Song was originally trained to prepare for her modeling and acting career in South Korea.

24. Liu Yifei

Name	An Feng
Date of birth	August 25, 1987
Place of birth	Wuhan, Hubei, China
Occupation	Actress, model, singer

An Feng was born on August 25, 1987. After her admittance into the Beijing Film Academy, she immediately received offers to participate in various TV series. Her TV debut in 2003 was in the period romance drama The Story of a Noble Family (金粉世家), based on Zhang Henshui’s novel of the same name. The series achieved the highest ratings on CCTV, and positive reviews from audience.

25. Lee Hanee

Name	Lee Hanee
Date of birth	March 2, 1983
Place of birth	Seoul, South Korea
Occupation	Actress, model

Lee Hanee was born in Seoul, South Korea, to Lee Sang-eob, a high-ranking official with the National Intelligence Service, and Moon Jae-suk, a PhD in Korean music history and a professor at Ewha Womans University as well as music director of Gimhae City Gayageum Orchestra. Hanne is the middle in a three children family, and has an older sister and a younger brother.

26. Baifern Pimchanok

Name	Pimchanok Luevisadpaibul
Date of birth	September 30, 1992
Place of birth	Dusit, Bangkok, Thailand
Occupation	Actress, singer, model, voice actor, MC, YouTuber

Pimchanok Luevisadpaibul was born in Dusit, Bangkok, Thailand, on September 30, 1992. She began working in Thai entertainment as a model for famous student shoes while studying grade 6 at primary school.

After that, Pimchanok started to appear in short films, movies, and MVs. She achieved a bachelor’s degree from Srinakharinwirot University in the Filmography department.

27. Shruti Haasan

Name	Shruti Haasan
Date of birth	January 28, 1986
Place of birth	Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Occupation	Actress, singer

Shruti Haasan was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Her first participation in a feature movie was as a child artist in a minor role as the daughter of Vallabhbhai Patel in the Tamil-Hindi bilingual Hey Ram, based on a murder attempt on Mahatma Gandhi, directed by her father Kamal Haasan. After rejecting prominent movie offers, most notably the main role in Venkat Prabhu’s Saroja, reports suggested in late 2007 that Haasan decided to make her actual acting first appearance in 2008 with a movie opposite Madhavan, directed by Nishikant Kamat.

28. Sonam Kapoor

Name	Sonam Kapoor Ahuja
Date of birth	June 9, 1985
Place of birth	Bombay, Maharashtra, India
Occupation	Actress

Sonam Kapoor Ahuja was born in Bombay, Maharashtra, India. Following a participation in the music video of Coldplay’s “Hymn for the Weekend” (ft Beyoncé), she participated in Ram Madhvani’s biographical thriller Neerja in 2016. She was cast as the eponymic air hostess Neerja Bhanot, who died while trying to save the passengers of the Pan Am Flight 73 which was hijacked in 1986. Kapoor felt responsible towards the project because it is about real events, and met Bhanot’s family as a preparation for her role.

29. Tomomi Itano

Name	Tomomi Itano
Date of birth	July 3, 1991
Place of birth	Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture
Occupation	Japanese idol, singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, model

Tomomi Itano was born on July 3, 1991. In an interview with Nihongogo, an Japanese entertainment website, Itano shared her thoughts on switching to a solo artist “In a group you perform as a unit with each member playing a certain character role, however as a solo artist you have to be able to play all the roles at once. You have to take on the roles of being cool, sexy, and cute and although it’s definitely a challenge, it’s something I have to strive for achieving.”

30. Emi Takei 

Name	Emi Takei
Date of birth	December 25, 1993
Place of birth	Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Occupation	Actress, model

Emi Takei was born on December 25, 1993, in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. Desiring to become a model, she expressed to her parents on her entry to junior high school that she was going to become a model in the next three years. In 2006, Takei entered the 11th Japan Bishōjo Contest and won in not only one, but also two categories: she archived the Multi-Media Award and the Model Division Award.

31. Satomi Ishihara 

Name	Kuniko Ishigami
Date of birth	December 24, 1986
Place of birth	Tokyo, Japan
Occupation	Actress

Kuniko Ishigami was born on December 24, 1986. In 2003, she started her professional acting career at the age of 17 when she participated in the drama Kimi wa Petto, playing as Jun Matsumoto and Koyuki. She has devoted equal time to TV serials and the films. Satomi was nominated for many awards such as Best Actress at the 46th Blue Ribbon Awards for participating in the movie My Grandpa and Best Supporting Actress in the 45th Japan Academy Film Prize for her participation in the film And so the baton is passed.

32. Zhang Jingchu

Name	Zhang Jingchu
Date of birth	February 2, 1980
Place of birth	Yong’an, Fujian, China
Occupation	Actress

Zhang Jingchu is a Chinese actress. In 2006, she was cast as the tough-talking heroine in the Finnish-Chinese kungfu film Jade Warrior of director A. J. Annila. In the same year, she participated in romantic drama The Road, directed by Lu Chuan. She won over the audience with the maturity shown in Zhang’s acting, and her remarkable ability to touch hearts by interpreting the different stages of a Chinese woman’s life.

33. Ming-Na Wen

Name	Ming-Na Wen
Date of birth	November 20, 1963
Place of birth	Coloane, Portuguese Macau
Occupation	Actress, model

Actress, model Ming-Na Wen was born on November 20, 1963. She provided the main character’s voice in the animated film Mulan in 1998, its direct-to-video sequel, Mulan II, and also the video game Kingdom Hearts II, subsequently winning an Annie Award. She voiced Detective Ellen Yin in the animated series The Batman, and Aki Ross in the computer animated movie Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.

34. Tara Sutaria

Name	Tara Sutaria
Date of birth	November 19, 1995
Place of birth	Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Occupation	Actress

Tara Sutaria was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India into a Parsi Zoroastrian family. She has a twin sister named Pia. Both trained in modern dance, classical ballet and Latin American dances at the Imperial Society for Teachers of Dancing, United Kingdom and the School of Classical Ballet and Western Dance, Royal Academy of Dance, United Kingdom. Sutraia began her professional singing career at the age of 7, having sung in competitions and operas since then.

35. Yunjin Kim

Name	Kim Yun-jin
Date of birth	November 7, 1973
Place of birth	Seoul, South Korea
Occupation	Actress

Kim Yun-jin is a South Korean actress. After graduation, she devoted herself full-time to acting. She garnered many minor parts on MTV, in soap opera-style dramas on ABC, and on the off-Broadway stage. In 1997, Kim participated in Splendid Holiday, a Korean television drama shot on location in New York. She decided to return to Korea. Kim was cast in the television drama Wedding Dress and was also invited to appear in Lee Kwangmo’s feature Spring in My Hometown, although she ended up rejecting this role.

36. Sonoya Mizuno

Name	Sonoya Mizuno
Date of birth	July 1, 1986
Place of birth	Tokyo, Japan
Occupation	Actress, model, dancer

Sonoya Mizuno was born in Tokyo, Japan, on July 1, 1986 and raised in Somerset, England. Her father is Japanese and her mother is of half Argentine and half English descent . She graduated from the Royal Ballet School before dancing with many ballet companies, including Semperoper Ballet in Dresden, Scottish Ballet, Ballet Ireland, and New English Ballet Theatre.

37. Freida Pinto

Name	Freida Selena Pinto
Date of birth	October 18, 1984
Place of birth	Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Occupation	Actress

Freida Selena Pinto was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, Western India, on October 18, 1984, to Mangalorean Catholic parents from Mangalore, Karnataka, South India. Her father, Frederick Pinto, was a senior branch manager for the Bank of Baroda in Bandra, West Mumbai, and her mother, Sylvia Pinto, was the principal of St. John’s Universal School in Goregaon, West Mumbai. 

38. Katrina Kaif

Name	Katrina Turquotte
Date of birth	July 16, 1983
Place of birth	Victoria, British Hong Kong
Occupation	Actress

Katrina Turquotte was born on 16 July 1983, in British Hong Kong with her mother’s surname Turquotte (also spelt Turcotte). Her mother, Suzanne, is an English charity worker and lawyer, and her father, Mohammed Kaif, is a British businessman of Kashmiri descent. She has 7 siblings: 3 elder sisters named Christine, Stephanie, and Natasha; 3 younger sisters named Melissa, Isabel, and Sonia; and 1 elder brother named Sebastien.

39. Mehwish Hayat

Name	Mehwish Hayat
Date of birth	January 6, 1988
Place of birth	Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Occupation	Actress, singer

Actress, singer Mehwish Hayat was born in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, on 6 January 1988, to Rukhsar Hayat, a popular TV actress during the 1980s. Hayat’s older sister, Afsheen, is a singer while her eldest brother, Zeeshan, is a singer-composer. Another older brother, Danish Hayat, is an actor and, through him, she is the sister-in-law of model Faiza Ashfaq. In 2020, Hayat was reported to be in a relationship with Dawood Ibrahim, a crime lord on India’s most-wanted list.

40. Solenn Heussaff

Name	Solenn Marie Adea Heussaff
Date of birth	July 20, 1985
Place of birth	Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines
Occupation	VJ, actress, fashion designer, model, make-up artist, TV host, recording artist, singer

Solenn Marie Adea Heussaff was born on July 20, 1985 , in Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines, to Louis Paul Heussaff, a former sailor in the French Navy from Douarnenez, in Brittany, who is currently the head of a service company SOS, for the petroleum industry, and Cynthia Adea, a Filipina. She has a younger brother named Erwan and an older sister named Vanessa.

41. Meisa Kuroki

Name	Satsuki Shimabukuro
Date of birth	May 28, 1988
Place of birth	Nago, Okinawa, Japan
Occupation	Actress, singer, model

Satsuki Shimabukuro was born in Nago, Okinawa, Japan. In February 2004, she had her first acting performance in the Kōhei Tsuka play Atami Satsujin Jiken: Pyonyang Kara Kita Onna Keiji (The Atami Murder Case.) Since her debut Kuroki has kept on performing in theater, especially in the Azumi stage productions in 2005, 2006, the musical Endless Shock, and most recently in Onna Nobunaga and Hiryuden 2010: Last Princess.

42. Victoria Loke

Name	Victoria Loke
Date of birth	February 11, 1992
Place of birth	Singapore
Occupation	Model, actress

Singaporean actress, model Victoria Loke was born on February 11, 1992. She made her debut in music videos for Anthony Cruz, Talib Kweli, and Natural Elements. Loke modeled in brand campaigns and commercials for international street-wear labels and website pictorials for Coca-Cola, Avon, Hypebeast, MTV, Swagger New York, Bastards of Young Indonesia, RADO LOUNGE, and Dis Magazine.

43. Claudia Kim

Name	Kim Soo-hyun
Date of birth	January 25, 1985
Place of birth	Seoul, South Korea
Occupation	Actress, model

Korean actress, model Kim Soo-hyun was born on January 25, 1985. She participated in supporting roles in 2011 medical drama Brain and 2013 spy comedy 7th Grade Civil Servant, as well as a leading role in the 2012 sitcom Standby. Kim gained international attention for her participations in Marco Polo in 2014 and Avengers: Age of Ultron in 2015. She also portrayed Nagini in the 2018 movie Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.

44. Zhang Yuqi

Name	Zhang Yuqi
Date of birth	August 8, 1987
Place of birth	Dezhou, Shandong, China
Occupation	Actress

Zhang Yuqi is a Chinese actress who was born on August 8, 1987. In 2012, she was cast in the role of Qian Xuesen’s wife, Jiang Ying in the biopic of the author. Zhang then participated in the film adaptation of the Chinese literary classic White Deer Plain written by Chen Zhongshi. She stars Tian Xiao He, a sensual, illiterate woman who follows her instincts. The role gave a challenge to her, as it involved close scenes.

45. Liza Soberano

Name	Hope Elizabeth Soberano
Date of birth	January 4, 1998
Place of birth	Santa Clara, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, model, singer, endorser

Hope Elizabeth Soberano was born on January 4, 1998. When she was 12, she was offered modeling work for print ads after relocating to Manila. Soberano was targeted by a talent scout and introduced to Ogie Diaz, her new talent manager at the age of 13. Her talent manager told her to learn Filipino so she could land successful TV and movie projects because she couldn’t speak the language at the time.

46. Maya Ali

Name	Maryam Tanveer Ali
Date of birth	July 27, 1989
Place of birth	Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Occupation	Actress

Maryam Tanveer Ali was born in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. She started off well with a small role in drama Durr-e-Shahwar, telecasted on Hum TV in 2012. Ali played Mahnoor in this drama. Her role is not very descriptive except that she is a younger sister of Durr-e-Shahwar who was played by actor Sanam Baloch and was born in a rich family and she always gives respect to her elder sister.

47. Jing Lusi

Name	Jing Lusi
Date of birth	May 10, 1985
Place of birth	Shanghai, China
Occupation	Actress

Jing Lusi was born on May 10, 1985. Her first TV role was in the BBC’s medical drama series Holby City. She made her first appearance in 2012, playing Tara Lo. In 2013, Lusi left the cast when her character died during neurosurgery, her final episode was aired on 16 April 2013. She has participated in TV shows such as Stan Lee’s Lucky Man as the villainous Lily-Anne Lau alongside James Nesbitt, played detectives in Scott & Bailey and Gangs of London.

48. Carmen Soo

Name	Soo Wai Ming
Date of birth	October 14, 1977
Place of birth	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Occupation	Actress, model, TV Host

Soo Wai Ming was born on October 14, 1977 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She started modeling at the age of 17 and relocated to Hong Kong when she was 20 to pursue modeling career, which has brought her all over Asia, including Singapore. At 5’1″ (just under 156 cm) tall, her petite size is not helping to catwalk modeling, hence most of her shoots tend to be print and TV commercials.

49. Yukie Nakama

Name	Yukie Nakama
Date of birth	October 30, 1979
Place of birth	Urasoe, Okinawa, Japan
Occupation	Actress, singer, idol

Yukie Nakama was born on October 30, 1979. In 2000, she demonstrated her comedy talent with her lead role in the Japanese TV drama Trick which got so popular that it had 2 additional seasons and 4 movie versions, but it was the top-rating television series Gokusen, a live-action version of the popular manga, that established her as one of Japan’s most popular and bankable actresses in 2002. Gokusen continued on for 3 seasons, which had many cameo participations by actors who were on former seasons.

50. Fiona Fussi

Name	Fiona Fussi
Date of birth	January 25, 1996
Place of birth	Singapore
Occupation	Fashion model

Singaporean fashion model Fiona Fussi was born on January 25, 1996. She was the face of Audi Fashion Festival, a huge fashion event in Singapore in 2012.

In 2014, she became the first Singaporean model ambassador to represent global beauty brand L’Oreal Paris in Asia. L’Oreal Paris has always been hiring celebrity endorsement in Asia.