Olivia Cheng
Biography
Olivia Cheng (pinyin Zhèng Qǐhuì) is a Chinese Canadian actress, broadcast journalist, and former correspondent for Entertainment Tonight Canada. Some of her roles include concubine Mei Lin in Marco Polo, sinister Master Gao in Deadly Class, Ah Toy (a madam in San Francisco's Chinatown) in the 1870s set martial arts crime drama series Warrior, Dr. Sylvia Wen (Boulder Free Zone's main doctor) in the 2021 adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand and warrior Charlotte in the dystopian series See.
In 2014, Cheng landed a role in Netflix's series Marco Polo. It was a lavish television drama, one of the most expensive ever produced, about Marco Polo's journey as he travels from his home in Venice to the court of Kublai Khan, where he finds himself in the middle of a war in 13th-century China.
Cheng portrayed Mei Lin, a Song dynasty concubine and assassin, and the sister of Jia Sidao. Cheng joked in a December 2014 interview that owing to her frequent nude scenes in Marco Polo, she would not be watching the series with her parents.
In October 2017, it was announced Cheng would be part of the main cast of the Justin Lin-produced Warrior, set against the backdrop of the Tong Wars of San Francisco. In the series, Cheng portrays Ah Toy, a madam in San Francisco's Chinatown during the 1870s, which is a fictionalized version of the real Ah Toy. The series was based on an original idea by the late Bruce Lee and premiered on Cinemax on April 5, 2019.
