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Gong Li

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Gong Li

Born December 31, 1965 in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China37 films

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.

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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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Memoirs of a Geisha posterFirst watchMemoirs of a Geisha20057.6as HatsumomoIn the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.View film

Essential films

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Mulan poster6.8Mulan2020Raise the Red Lantern poster7.9Raise the Red Lantern1991Farewell My Concubine poster7.9Farewell My Concubine19932046 poster7.220462004Hannibal Rising poster6.3Hannibal Rising2007To Live poster8.1To Live1994Curse of the Golden Flower poster6.9Curse of the Golden Flower2006Miami Vice poster6.0Miami Vice2006

Filmography

37 films as actor
  1. 2021Saturday FictionJean Yu
  2. 2021The HandMiss Hua
  3. 2020LeapLang Ping
  4. 2020MulanXian Niang
  5. 2016The Monkey King 2Lady White
  6. 2014Coming HomeFeng Wanyu
  7. 2011What Women WantLi Yilong
  8. 2010ShanghaiAnna Lan-Ting
  9. 2007Hannibal RisingLady Murasaki
  10. 2006Curse of the Golden FlowerEmpress Phoenix
  11. 2006Miami ViceIsabella
  12. 2005Memoirs of a GeishaHatsumomo
  13. 2004ErosMiss Hua
  14. 20042046Black Spider / Su Li-zhen
  15. 2002Zhou Yu's TrainZhou Yu / Xiu
  16. 2000Breaking the SilenceSun Liying
  17. 1998The Emperor and the AssassinLady Zhao
  18. 1997Chinese BoxVivian
  19. 1996Temptress MoonPang Ruyi
  20. 1995Shanghai TriadBijou / Xiao Jinbao
  21. 1994The Great Conqueror’s Concubine: Part II
  22. 1994The Great Conqueror's Concubine: Part ILu Zhi
  23. 1994To LiveXu Jiazhen
  24. 1994A Soul Haunted by PaintingPan Yuliang
  25. 1994The Maidens of Heavenly MountainsMou Hang-wan
  26. 1993Flirting ScholarChou Heung
  27. 1993Farewell My ConcubineJuxian
  28. 1992Mary from BeijingMary
  29. 1992The Story of Qiu JuQiu Ju
  30. 1992Crossing the World With Ease
  31. 1991Raise the Red LanternSonglian
  32. 1991God of Gamblers III: Back to ShanghaiYu San / Yu Mong
  33. 1990Ju DouJu Dou
  34. 1989A Terra-Cotta WarriorDong Er / Zhu Lili
  35. 1989Codename CougarAh Li
  36. 1989The Empress DowagerGuilian
  37. 1988Red SorghumJiu'er