Sky Liam attended the University of Southern California where he studied Theatre and Chinese language while captaining both the Tae Kwon Do and Wushu martial arts teams. After graduation he moved to Beijing, China, and spent time training and competing internationally. His first film roles were in the martial arts films Ba gua zhong shi (2012) and Tai Chi Zero (2012) ; he has since appeared in The Amityville Murders (2018) and The Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson (2019) as well as episodes of The Young and the Restless (1973) and Oishi: Demon Hunter (2018) . Sky grew up in Portland, Oregon and resides in Los Angeles.