Gong Li
Gender: Female
Born: 31st December 1965 (currently 46 years old)
Nationality: China, Singapore
Movies: 2046, A Terracotta Warrior, Curse of the Golden Flower, Eros, Farewell My Concubine, Ju Dou, Memoirs of a Geisha, Miami Vice, Raise the Red Lantern, Red Sorghum, Shanghai Triad, The Story of Qiu Ju, To Live, Hannibal Rising, Zhou Yu's Train, The Emperor and the Assassin, Chinese Box, Temptress Moon, The Banquet, God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai, Flirting Scholar, Breaking the Silence, Shanghai, A Soul Haunted by Painting, The Empress Dowager, What Women Want, The Dragon Chronicles – The Maidens, The Great Conqueror's Concubine, Codename Cougar, Mary from Beijing
Gong Li (born 31 December 1965) 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 to 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.
Gong Li was born in Shenyang, Liaoning, the youngest in a family of five children. Her father was a professor of economics and her mother, who was 40 when Gong was born, was a teacher. Gong grew up in Jinan, the capital of Shandong.
In 1985, Gong sought to study at China's top music school, but was denied entrance. Later that same year, she was accepted to the prestigious Central Academy of Drama in Beijing and graduated in 1989. While a student at the Central Academy of Drama, she was discovered by Zhang Yimou, who chose her for the lead role in Red Sorghum, his first film as a director.
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