Meet Chuti Tiu

Chuti Tiu is a Filipina-Chinese-American actress, writer and producer based out of LA.  She broke racial barriers playing Snow White in the first grade back in Milwaukee, WI, and she’s loved embodying stories ever since.

You can see her next as the compassionate oncologist Dr. Mira Kahani in the feature Lilly, with Patricia Clarkson and Thomas Sadoski, and as the elitist gossip Sarah in Amazon’s Expats opposite Nicole Kidman.  

Recently, she was seen at TIFF playing Ernie Hudson’s ballbusting wife Lily in Prisoner’s Daughter, alongside Kate Beckinsale and Brian Cox.  Chuti is best known as the tough reporter Leslie in Yellowstone opposite Kelly Reilly, the unflinching Judge Gage in How To Get Away With Murder with Viola Davis, and the pitbull lawyer Tara Ashton in Nashville.

Graduating from Northwestern University with a joint degree in Political Science and Economics, Chuti sneaked into acting classes whenever she could, since her parents would never allow a theater degree.  When she decided to turn down her admittance to Columbia University’s prestigious Masters Program in International Relations and instead dedicate her life to acting, her parents rejected her chosen passion for decades, inevitably helping her develop the tough skin needed in this industry.

Chuti strives to tell and write stories that reflect what it means to be human, in all its crazy imperfections, conflicts, joys and sorrows. Her feature Pretty Rosebud, which she penned and starred in, blazed through the film festival circuit, garnering numerous Best Actress and Best Screenplay awards.  Her starring role in Just a Man and a Woman also earned her Best Actress acclaim, and she’ll soon be touring film festivals once again as the alcoholic dancer Summer in the feature A Summer Night.

 In addition to her creative pursuits, Chuti seeks balance through Sudarshan Kriya meditation, volunteering for her church, travel, playing classical piano, philosophical discussions over wine or coffee, winning board games and having snuggle threesomes with her husband Oscar Torre and the most vociferous tuxedo cat in the world, Mochi.