Elizabeth Yu
Elizabeth Yu (born October 6, 2002) 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.
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Elizabeth Yu
Elizabeth Yu (born October 6, 2002) 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.
Early and personal life
Elizabeth Yu
Elizabeth Yu was born on October 6, 2002 to a Korean father and a mother of German, Irish and Polish ancestry.
Since 2018, Yu has been in a relationship with Stranger Things star Gaten Matarazzo.
Career
Elizabeth Yu
In December 2021, Yu was cast as Azula, the princess of the Fire Nation, in Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Yu's first credit was in the 2022 film Somewhere in Queens. Yu also starred as college student Ruby in Year One, a coming-of-age film directed by Lauren Loesberg.
In January 2023, Yu was cast in May December, a black comedy directed by Todd Haynes. In March 2023, she was cast as Young Maggie in an NBC drama pilot created by Jenna Bans and Bill Krebs. Her character is a "big murder-mystery book nerd" who ends up getting murdered.
Filmography
Film
<table><thead><tr><th>Year</th><th>Title</th><th>Role</th><th>Notes</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>2022</td><td>Somewhere in Queens</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2023</td><td>May December</td><td>Mary Atherton-Yoo</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2024</td><td>Year One</td><td>Ruby</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Womb</td><td>Ha-Yoon</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Black Spines</td><td>Shawn</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>
Television
<table><thead><tr><th>Year</th><th>Title</th><th>Role</th><th>Notes</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>2024</td><td>Avatar: The Last Airbender</td><td>Princess Azula</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>TBA</td><td>Murder by the Book</td><td>Young Maggie</td><td>In post-production</td></tr></tbody></table>