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Gong Li

Acting Born Dec 31, 1965 Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China 24 credits

Biography

Gong Li is a Chinese-born Singaporean film actress. Gong first came into international prominence through close collaboration with Chinese director Zhang Yimou and is credited with helping bring Chinese cinema to Europe and the United States.

She has twice been awarded the Golden Rooster and the Hundred Flowers Awards as well as the Berlinale Camera, Cannes Festival Trophy, National Board of Review, New York Film Critics Circle Award, and Volpi Cup.

She married Singaporean businessman Ooi Hoe Soeng in 1996, and became a Singaporean citizen in 2008.

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Known for

Film

Farewell My Concubine

as Juxian
Film

Mulan

as Xian Niang
Film

Raise the Red Lantern

as Songlian
Film

To Live

as Xu Jiazhen

Full filmography

  • Volle Kanne (1999) as Self
  • Farewell My Concubine (1993) as Juxian
  • Celebrity Talk Show (1989) as 巩俐
  • Mulan (2020) as Xian Niang
  • Flirting Scholar (1993) as Chou Heung
  • 周杰伦 (2000)
  • Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) as Hatsumomo
  • Miami Vice (2006) as Isabella
  • Red Sorghum (1988) as Jiu'er
  • Raise the Red Lantern (1991) as Songlian
  • To Live (1994) as Xu Jiazhen
  • The Monkey King 2 (2016) as Lady White
  • God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai (1991) as Yu San / Yu Mong
  • 2046 (2004) as Black Spider
  • Curse of the Golden Flower (2006) as Empress Phoenix
  • The Hand (2004) as Miss Hua
  • Eros (2004) as Miss Hua
  • 最佳女主角 (2013)
  • Shanghai (2010) as Anna Lan-Ting
  • The Banquet (1991) as Self
  • The Emperor and the Assassin (1998) as Lady Zhao
  • Ju Dou (1990) as Ju Dou
  • The Maidens of Heavenly Mountains (1994) as Mou Hang-wan
  • The Story of Qiu Ju (1992) as Qiu Ju