Draft:Damarea Liao

Damarea Liao (Born Damarea Leah Ogbuewu, August 8,2005) is a Nigerian-Japanese actress and model. She starred in the reality television series, Beyond the Crown (2024) and then the Pluto original film 'We Ride at Dawn.' (2024)

Early life
Liao was born in 2005 in South Carolina. She is of Nigerian, Ghanaian, and Japanese decent.

Career
In April of 2021, Liao was announced as the lead in the Broadway rendition of The Karate Kid. alongside Chinese actor, Jackie Chan.

In August of 2023, Liao, then Damarea Ogbuewu, was announced as the first African to compete in more than three global writing competitions.

Liao was advanced to Miss China in October of 2023 after resigning from her title as Miss Chesnee in the Miss South Carolina pageant. Her advancement into the program made her the first African to compete in a Chinese beauty pageant.

In October of 2023, Liao was named a youth delegate to Ghana as a nod to her persistent push to for a protection plan for Ghana's schools during the peak of kidnappings taking place across Africa.

In May of 2024, Liao released a comment that was deemed 'controversial' and 'sexist' on social media towards American socialite Kim Kardashian. The statement caused controversy due to her already pageant platform of women's equality.

In June of 2024, sources found that the controversial comment made towards Kim Kardashian was a publicity stunt after news of a new film starring both Kardashian and Liao was announced.