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Gong Li
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 Gong Li in Moscow as part of the official Chinese delegation in their successful 2001 bid to host the 2008 Summer Olympics |
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| Chinese name | 鞏俐 (Traditional) | |||||||||||||
| Chinese name | 巩俐 (Simplified) | |||||||||||||
| Born | December 31, 1965  Shenyang, China |
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| Spouse(s) | Ooi Wei Ming (1996-) | |||||||||||||
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- This is a Chinese name; the family name is Gong.
Gong Li (simplified Chinese: 巩俐; traditional Chinese: 鞏俐; pinyin: Gǒng Lì) (born December 31, 1965) is a Chinese film actress. She first came into international prominence through close collaboration with Chinese director Zhang Yimou. Gong Li is generally considered one of the best actresses in China.
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Gong Li was born in Shenyang, Liaoning, China, the fifth child in her family. Her father was a professor of economics and her mother, who was 40 when Gong was born, was a teacher.[1] Gong grew up in Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province. She knew from a young age that she wanted to be an actress, and at school she excelled at singing and dancing almost to the exclusion of other subjects. She was eventually accepted to the Beijing Central College of Drama in 1985 and graduated in 1989.[2] She was still a student there when Zhang Yimou chose her in 1987 for the lead role in his first film as a director.
Over the next several years after her 1987 debut, Gong received both local and international acclaim for her roles in several more Zhang Yimou films, including Ju Dou, Raise the Red Lantern and The Story of Qiu Ju, for which she was named Best Actress at the 1992 Venice Film Festival.
In 1993 she received a New York Film Critics Circle award for her role in Farewell My Concubine. Directed by Chen Kaige, the film was at the time her first major role with a director other than Zhang Yimou. In 2006, Premiere Magazine ranked her performance as the 89th greatest performance of all time.
She retains a very strong popularity in most Asian countries and is prized for both her talents and beauty .[citation needed] In addition to acting, she is also an exceptional singer, as demonstrated during her performance in the 1998 film Shanghai Triad.[citation needed] Her international acclaim was demonstrated when she became a recipient of France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in June 1998.
Her relationship with Zhang Yimou was both professional and romantic and they created a scandal for being lovers during their long collaboration, despite Zhang having been married at the time. The couple eventually broke up in 1995, and Gong Li married Singaporean tobacco tycoon Ooi Hoe Soeng the following year.
Gong and Zhang had not worked together until 2006, when they were finally reunited for Zhang's Curse of the Golden Flower, in which she played the beautiful and ultimately dying Golden Phoenix.
Despite her high profile, Gong had for years put off working on Hollywood films, due to both her lack of confidence speaking English and her discontent with the types of roles having been offered to her[3]. Her first major English-language role came in 2005 when she starred as the beautiful but vindictive Hatsumomo in Memoirs of a Geisha.
Her other English-language roles to date have been in Miami Vice in 2006 and Hannibal Rising in 2007. In all three films, she learned her English lines phonetically.
As of 2007, she is said to be able to speak fluent conversational English.
Generally considered the epitome of Chinese beauty, she is doing more Hollywood roles and becoming more confident with her English speaking skills.
| Year | English Title | Chinese Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1987 | Red Sorghum | 红高梁 | ||
| 1989 | The Empress Dowager | 西太后 | Guilian | |
| 1989 | Mr. Sunshine | 開心巨無霸 | ||
| 1989 | Codename Cougar | 代号美洲豹 | Ah Li | Hundred Flowers Award for Best Supporting Actress, 1989 |
| 1990 | A Terracotta Warrior | 秦俑 | Winter/Lili Chu | Nominated for Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actress |
| 1990 | Ju Dou | 菊豆 | Ju Dou | |
| 1991 | God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai | 賭俠2之上海灘賭聖 | Yu-Sin/Yu-Mong | |
| 1991 | Raise the Red Lantern | 大红灯笼高高挂 | Songlian | Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress, 1993 |
| 1991 | The Banquet | 豪門夜宴 | Waitress at banquet | |
| 1992 | The Story of Qiu Ju | 秋菊打官司 | Qiu Ju | Golden Rooster Awards for Best Actress, 1993 Volpi Cup (Venice Film Festival) for Best Actress |
| 1992 | Mary from Beijing | 夢醒時分 | Mary | |
| 1993 | Farewell My Concubine | 霸王别姬 | Juxian | NYFCC Award for Best Supporting Actress, 1993 |
| 1993 | Flirting Scholar | 唐伯虎點秋香 | Chow Heung | |
| 1994 | Dragon Chronicles: The Maidens of Heavenly Mountain | 新天龍八部之天山童姥 | Mo Han-Wen | |
| 1994 | A Soul Haunted by Painting | 画魂 | Pan Yuliang | |
| 1994 | To Live | 活着 | Xu Jiazhen | Nominated for Chlotrudis Award for Best Actress, 1995 |
| 1994 | King of Western Chu | 西楚霸王 | Lu Zi | |
| 1995 | Shanghai Triad | 摇啊摇，摇到外婆桥 | Xiao Jingbao | |
| 1996 | Temptress Moon | 风月 | Pang Ruyi | Nominated for Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actress, 1997 |
| 1997 | Chinese Box | Vivian | ||
| 1998 | The Emperor and the Assassin | 荆柯刺秦王 | Lady Zhao | |
| 2000 | Breaking the Silence | 漂亮妈妈 | Sun Liying | Golden Rooster Awards for Best Actress, 2000 Montreal World Film Festival for Best Actress, 2000 |
| 2002 | Zhou Yu's Train | 周渔的火车 | Zhou Yu | |
| 2004 | 2046 | 2046 | Su Li Zhen | |
| 2004 | Eros | Miss Hua | ||
| 2005 | Memoirs of a Geisha | Hatsumomo | Nominated for Satellite Award for Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture Drama
Best Supporting actress-National Board of Review |
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| 2006 | Miami Vice | Isabella | ||
| 2006 | Curse of the Golden Flower | 满城尽带黄金甲 | Empress Phoenix | Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actress, 2007/ Hong Kong Film critics award for Best Actress, 2007 |
| 2007 | Hannibal Rising | Lady Murasaki Shikibu Lecter | ||
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- Gong Li was voted the most beautiful person in China.[4][5]
- One of the B-sides of Red Hot Chili Peppers single Scar Tissue, from the album Californication, is called Gong Li.
- ^ http://www.charlest.whipple.net/gongside.html
- ^ http://video.barnesandnoble.com/search/Biography.asp?ctr=620460
- ^ http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1138891_3,00.html
- ^ "Gong Li voted China's Most Beautiful Person", China Daily, May 23,2006. Retrieved on 2007-03-17.
- ^ Min, Shen (May 22,2006). Gong Li Voted China's Most Beautiful Star. Retrieved on 2007-03-17.
- Gong Li at the Internet Movie Database
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