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Qi Shu Profile |
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Birth Date: April 16, 1976
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Birth Place: Taipei, Taiwan
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Birth Name: Lin Li-hui
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Height: 5'6"
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Biography |
Shu Qi (born April 16, 1976) is the stage name of a
Taiwanese actress born Lin Li-hui (林立慧). Her stage name is
occasionally romanized as Hsu Chi (Wade-Giles) or Shu Kei
(Cantonese). Her name is sometimes seen in the Western order
(Qi Shu).
Born to a very poor family in Taiwan, the young Shu Qi moved
to Hong Kong at the age of 17 where she became a model for
adult magazines and other erotic photography. She eventually
came under the management of Hong Kong producer Manfred
Wong, who signed her on to several soft porn Hong Kong films
such as Sex & Zen II.
Shu Qi's luck changed for the better when she met Derek Yee,
a director renowned in Hong Kong for movies with a social
conscience. She starred in his 1996 film, Viva Erotica,
opposite the late Leslie Cheung and singing star Karen Mok.
It was a runaway hit at the Hong Kong Film Awards, where she
won critical accolades as the Best Supporting Actress for
the film. Since then, she moved on to do non-porn roles.
Some of them were in mainstream Hong Kong films such as
Gorgeous (1998) opposite Jackie Chan; others were
critically-acclaimed art-house fair such as Stanley Kwan's
The Island Tales (1999) and Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Millennium
Mambo (2000).
In 1999, Ang Lee approached Shu Qi for the role of Jen in
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Six weeks into filming, her
manager Manfred Wong pulled her out to do a Coca-Cola
commercial in Japan. The role of Jen went to young Chinese
starlet Zhang Ziyi, who has since gone on to become arguably
the most famous Chinese actress globally. Shu Qi sacked
Manfred Wong and switched agents after the disaster.
Things have looked up since then. In 2002, two films
starring Shu Qi hit gold. The Hollywood blockbuster The
Transporter (directed by Louis Leterrier and Corey Yuen)
catapulted Shu Qi into the international film circuit, while
the Asian action flick So Close (choreographed by Corey Yuen
and starring Vicki Zhao and Karen Mok) won her acclaim back
in Asia. In addition, a critically-acclaimed performance in
the 2004 Hong Kong horror film The Eye 2 further established
Shu Qi's versatility in different genres of film.
In 2005 she won the Best Actress Award at the 2005 Golden
Horse Awards for her three roles in Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Three
Times.
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Other
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She was once considered to play the role of Jiao Long in
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000).
Born in Taiwan. |
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