Jacklyn Wu Chien-Lien
Biography
Jacklyn Wu Chien-Lien, 吳倩蓮, sometimes also spelt Jacqueline Wu Chien-Lien (born July 3, 1968), is a Taiwanese actress and singer. She is best remembered by Western audiences for her role in Ang Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), where she played the second of three sisters. She started her acting career when Johnnie To cast her opposite Andy Lau in A Moment of Romance (1990).
Her most acclaimed role to date is in Ann Hui's Eighteen Springs (1997), for which she received a Hong Kong Film Award Best Actress nomination and won the Hong Kong Film Critics Society Best Actress Award.
Wu has also acted in TV serials in Taiwan, China and Singapore. Since the turn of the millennium her output has dwindled. Her last film appearance was in 2004's Hong Kong movie Jiang Hu.
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Full filmography
- The Modern Love Story (1992)
- The Return of the Condor Heroes (1998) as Hsiao Lung Nu
- Zen Master (2001)
- A Moment of Romance (1990) as Jo Jo
- God of Gamblers' Return (1994) as Little Guitar
- Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) as Jia-Chien
- Beijing Hong Kong Love Connection (1997) as Fang Ming
- Jiang Hu (2004) as Mrs. Hung
- The Adventurers (1995) as Crystal Lui
- Peace Hotel (1995) as Ping's Wife
- 情牵日月星 (1999) as 桑若岚
- All's Well, End's Well '97 (1997) as Shenny
- Sorry Baby (1999) as Liu Xiao Yun
- The Bare-Footed Kid (1993) as Hua Huang Lien
- Only Fools Fall in Love (1995) as Mong Dai / Dee
- A Moment of Romance II (1993) as Celia
- 缘海情天 (2012) as 洪威
- Dream Lover (1995) as Kitty
- Romantic Heroes of the Tang Dynasty (2013) as Ye Tianlian/Shu Qing
- Empress Feng of the Northern Wei Dynasty (2006) as Empress Dowager Feng
- Ninth Happiness (1998) as Chi Wan
- Casino Raiders II (1991) as Lin
- Eighteen Springs (1997) as Gu Manjing
- To Live and Die in Tsimshatsui (1994) as Bo