Gong Li
Gong Li
Age: 46
Height: 5' 7"
Birth place: Shenyang, China
Gong Li (simplified Chinese: 巩俐; traditional Chinese: 鞏俐; pinyin: Gǒng Lì; born 31 December 1965) is a Chinese-born 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.[1] 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 Crit - en.wikipedia.org
About Gong Li Official Fan Site - www.admiringgongli.com
Gong Li -- also credited as Li Gong -- was still in acting school when she got the lead role in the 1988 film Red Sorghum. She was an international hit and starred in many Chinese films throughout the 1990s, including The Story of Qiu Ju (1992) and Farewell My Concubine (1993). She made several films with director Yimou Zhang, with whom she had a personal relationship until 1995. She has also appeared in Memoirs of a Geisha (2005, starring Michelle Yeoh) and Miami Vice (2006, with Colin Farrell and Jamie Fo - www.answers.com
Gong Li is China's most famous actress. Among her significant films are Farewell My Concubine, Chinese Box with Jeremy Irons, and The Emperor and the Assassin, the most expensive movie in Chinese film history. - www.askmen.com