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Gong Li is a Chinese actress. Known for her versatility and naturalistic performances, she is regarded as one of the best actresses in Chinese cinema. She starred in three of the four Chinese-language films that have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.
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Born 31 December 1965 · Q150903
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Gong was invited to serve as the Art Chairman of the 12th Beijing Film Festival, responsible for the selected films, assisting in the invitation and recommendation of outstanding films and guests
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Gong was invited to be the jury president of the 11th Beijing International Film Festival, becoming the first female jury president in the festival's history
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Including the Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards and the HKFDG Awards
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Gong was cast in Peter Chan's biographical film Leap, where she plays the hard-driving, real-life head coach of the Chinese women's national volleyball team Lang Ping
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Had a mixed reception, Gong's performance was widely praised by critics
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Gong was cast in Lou Ye's period drama Saturday Fiction, where she plays an actress who is working undercover gathering intelligence for the Allies
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Gong served as the jury president of the 55th Golden Horse Awards
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Gong started dating the French composer and musician Jean-Michel Jarre
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Gong took on her first action role in The Monkey King 2, playing the White Bone Demon
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Gong was the president of the jury for the 17th Shanghai International Film Festival, becoming the first woman jury president in the festival's history
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Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (2010).
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Gong starred in the World War II-era thriller Shanghai as a spy who is disguised as the wife of a triad boss (played by Chow Yun-fat)
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In 2009, Gong and Ooi quietly divorced, though they did not make the news public until three years later.
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Gong and Ooi quietly divorced, though they did not make the news public until three years later
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In early 2008, Gong applied for Singapore citizenship.
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Gong worked again with Yimou for historical epic Curse of the Golden Flower, for which She won the best Actress at the 26th Hong Kong Film Awards
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Gong began a relationship with a French photographer, whom she met on the Prague set of Hannibal Rising
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For the film Curse of the Golden Flower and in 2014 for Coming Home
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And Lady Murasaki of Hannibal Rising in 2007
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When she starred as Hatsumomo in Memoirs of a Geisha
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Gong served as the president of the jury of the 16th Tokyo International Film Festival, the first woman to do so
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Gong was invited to head the jury of the Venice Film Festival
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Gong won her second international Best Actress trophy for her performance as a struggling single mother in Breaking the Silence (2000) directed by Sun Zhou at the Montreal World Film Festival
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Gong and Chen Kaige collaborated for the third film The Emperor and the Assassin, which won the Technical Grand Prize at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival
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Career landmark: member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (1998).
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Gong worked with Jeremy Irons on the romantic drama Chinese Box, which won the Best Original Music award at the Venice Film Festival
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Gong and Chen Kaige collaborated again in the romantic film Temptress Moon, which was in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival
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Gong starred in Shanghai Triad, during her breakup with Zhang Yimou, in which she played a seductive stage queen
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Soon after shooting Shanghai Triad, their 7th collaboration during their relationship, Zhang announced their break-up amidst rumors of Gong's affair with Ooi Hoe Seong, then managing director of British American Tobacco
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Gong played Jiazhen, the wife of Xu Fugui, in the drama To Live, which won the Grand Prix at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival
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Awarded Berlinale Camera (1993).
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Received a New York Film Critics Circle award for her role in Farewell My Concubine (1993)
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Won Volpi Cup for Best Actress for The Story of Qiu Ju (1992).
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Gong starred in the rural drama The Story of Qiu Ju, which won the Golden Lion award at the 49th Venice International Film Festival
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Gong starred in Zhang Yimou's film Raise the Red Lantern, which won the Silver Lion award at the 48th Venice Film Festival, and was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 64th Academy Awards
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Gong Continued to cooperate with Zhang Yimou and starred in his family ethics movie Ju Dou, which won the Luis Buñuel Special Award at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival, and was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film a
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Gong starred in Zhang Yimou's second counterterrorism film, Codename Cougar, for which she won the Hundred Flowers Awards for Best Supporting Actress, ushering in a new stage of exploring acting skills and style
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While at college, Gong was discovered by Zhang Yimou, who cast her for the lead role in Red Sorghum, his first film as a director
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On the set of Red Sorghum, when Zhang was married to his first wife Xiao Hua while Gong was in another relationship
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Their relationship started in 1986 on the set of Red Sorghum, when Zhang was married to his first wife Xiao Hua while Gong was in another relationship.
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Encouraged by Yin, she applied to the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing
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Studied at Central Academy of Drama (1985).
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Took her first Gaokao, applying to two art programs at Shandong Normal University and Qufu Normal University, but failed to gain admission
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Born 1965-12-31.
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