| Elizabeth Yu | |
| Birth Date: | 6 October 2002 |
| Birth Place: | New Jersey, U.S. |
| Occupation: | Actress |
Elizabeth Yu (born October 6, 2002)[1] [2] is an American actress. She appears as Azula in Avatar: The Last Airbender, a live-action adaptation of the animated series of the same name.
In December 2021, Yu was cast as Azula, the princess of the Fire Nation, in Avatar: The Last Airbender.[3]
Yu's first credit was in the 2022 film Somewhere in Queens.[4] Yu also starred as college student Ruby in Year One, a coming-of-age film directed by Lauren Loesberg.[5]
In January 2023, Yu was cast in May December, a black comedy directed by Todd Haynes.[6] In March, she was cast as Young Maggie in an NBC drama pilot created by Jenna Bans and Bill Krebs.[7] Her character is a "big murder-mystery book nerd" who ends up getting murdered.[7]
Yu was born to a Korean father and an American mother of German, Irish and Polish ancestry.[8] Since 2018, Yu has been in a relationship with Stranger Things star Gaten Matarazzo.[9]
| 2022 | Somewhere in Queens | |||
| 2023 | May December | Mary Atherton-Yoo | ||
| 2024 | Year One | Ruby | ||
| Womb | Ha-Yoon | |||
| TBA | Black Spines | Shawn |
| 2024 | Avatar: The Last Airbender | Princess Azula | ||
| TBA | Murder by the Book | Young Maggie | In post-production |