Who is Callina Liang, the actress playing Chun-Li in the new Street Fighter movie?

Oct 12, 2026

When Kitao Sakurai, the Japanese-American director of a new film adaptation of the Street Fighter video game franchise, called to say she had the role, Callina Liang reacted the way anyone might expect. “I was in a park screaming at the top of my lungs,” the 26-year-old actress reveals with a giggle over Zoom. Starring Andrew Koji (Warrior) as Ryu and Noah Centineo (Black Adam) as Ken, the film allows Liang to live out her 16-bit dreams, playing Chun-Li, the franchise’s first-ever female...

Frontal Report

Frontal Report is an emerging leader in all forms of media. We aim to be the leading news brand for readers around the world.