Brigitte Lin
Acting
Awards
Won 1 Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress Award
Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress 1 won
- 1990 Best Leading Actress Won Red Dust
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Brigitte Lin Ching-Hsia (Chinese: 林青霞; pinyin: Lín Qīngxiá; born 3 November 1954) is a Taiwanese actress. She was a popular actress, regarded as an icon of Chinese cinema, who acted in both Taiwanese and Hong Kong films. She retired in 1994, although she had a minor role in the 1998 film Bishonen.
She was born in Taipei, and was "discovered" in 1972 by a film producer, and first appeared in many Taiwanese romance films based on the novels of Chiung Yao. Her movie debut is in Chuangwai. She later switched over to making movies in Hong Kong. At the height of her popularity she was arguably one of the most sought-after actresses in the Chinese film industry. She starred in more than 100 movies.
In Hong Kong movies, Lin made a career of playing transgender roles: in Peking Opera Blues she plays a tomboy who dresses in male Western clothes; in New Dragon Gate Inn she is a woman who dresses as a man, and in Swordsman II and III she plays a male character who castrates himself for power and so is now slowly turning into a woman. She had a good working relationship with Tsui Hark, acting in many of the films he directed (like Peking Opera Blues) and produced (Swordsman II).
She married businessman Michael Ying in 1994 and left the film industry. She has two daughters, born in 1997 and 2001. She made her first public appearance since her marriage at a screening of Ashes of Time Redux at the 2008 New York Film Festival.
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Filmography
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Acting
48 credits
Midi Première
Golden Horse Awards
Chungking Express
Celebrity Talk Show
Police Story
The Legend of the Swordsman
Royal Tramp 2
New Dragon Gate Inn
Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain
Ashes of Time
Peking Opera Blues
Swordsman III: The East Is Red
The Eagle Shooting Heroes
Fantasy Mission Force
Royal Tramp
The Bride with White Hair
Handsome Siblings
The Thirty Million Dollar Rush
Deadful Melody
Hot Wave
Peony Pavilion
The Maidens of Heavenly Mountains
Love, Love, Love
The Bride with White Hair 2
Fire Dragon
Red Dust
Different Love
The Dream of the Red Chamber
Fire Dragon
The Black Panther Warriors
Lady in Black
Ashes of Time Redux
Bishonen
The Three Swordsmen
Seven Black Heroines
Ghost of the Mirror
Boys Are Easy
Night Orchid
Eight Hundred Heroes
Pink Force Commando
Web of Deception
All the Wrong Spies
The Other Side of Gentleman
Dream Lovers
Love Massacre
Moon River
True Colours
Return of Monsoon
Other credits
12 credits
The Four Sheepish Dummies
True Love
Long Way from Home
Birds Are Singing Everywhere
The Chasing Game
Morning Fog
Love in My Heart
Tomorrow I'm 20
The Marigolds
Little Sister-in-law
News Hen
Love By Post
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