A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Lao Chew Yen
刘子绚
Birthplace:
Langkawi, Kedah, Malaysia
Born:
February 13, 1979
Spotted by a producer in Mediacorp in 2004, Jesseca Liu was offered the meaty role of He Yi Xuan in the sports-themed drama, “The Champion”. From then, she began her career as a full-time actress in Singapore. Her portrayal of a Vietnamese bride in the 100-episode drama serial “Portrait of Home” bagged her the Most Popular Newcomer Award and earned her a Best Supporting Actress nomination at Star Awards 2005. She scored her first leading role in “Rhapsody In Blue” in 2006 which led to more lead roles for the popular star. She played the female lead in many Mediacorp highly-rated serials including “Secrets For Sale”, “The Oath”, “Marry Me”, “Blessings”,” Mind Matters”,” Babies On Board” and “Hero”. In 2014, she wrote her first web drama script, “Who Killed The Lead” where she played the female lead and the script was awarded for Best Digital Fiction & Non-Fiction Series at the Asian Television Awards. She also played the role of a mother for the first time and paired with Taiwan actor-host Jacko Chiang in a local movie, “Bring Back The Dead”. Most recently, she received the "Outstanding Leading Actress in Comedy" Award at the 2019 Asia Rainbow TV Awards for her role in
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.