Gong Li Biography, Facts
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Biography for Gong Li, Fact Files, Career, Personal Life
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Date of birth: 31 December 1965
Birthplace (location): Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
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Gender: Female
Occupation: Actress, Teacher
Nationality: China
Height: 5' 7" (1.70 m)
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Favorite Actor: Dustin Hoffman
Favorite Actress: Meryl Streep
Executive summary / Best known for: 2046, Miami Vice
Sometimes Credited As: Lei Gung / Li Gong
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Father: (economics professor)
Boyfriend: Yimou Zhang (film director, dated 1987-95)
Husband: Ooi Wei Ming (tobacco executive, m. 15-Feb-1996)
Education: Graduated from the Central Drama Academy in Beijing (1989)
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Contact, Fan Mailing, Autograph Address of Gong Li:
Mrs. Gong Li
c/o ICM Artists
8942 Wilshire Blvd.
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
USA
Detailed Biography of Gong Li: Full Biography
Gong Li was born on 31 December 1965 in Shenyang. She grew up in Jinan, she is daughter of an economics professor. Gong Li loved music from childhood, and dreamed of a singing career. At school she excelled at singing and dancing almost to the exclusion of other subjects. After failing to gain entrance to China's top music school in 1985, applied for and was admitted to the Central Drama Academy in Beijing, from which she graduated in 1989.
After appearing in the forgettable Codename Cougar (1987) and starring opposite her beau in The Terracotta Warrior (1989), Li Gong grabbed the attention of international audiences again with the Academy Award-nominated Ju Dou (1990). In her next film, Raise the Red Lantern (1992), widely considered Yimou's masterpiece, Gong Li again brilliantly played a woman whose independence and sensuality are oppressed by a rigidly patriarchal culture. Li's performance in The Story of Qiu Ju (1992) is perhaps her most memorable. In 1993, Gong Li starred in a film by another Fifth Generation stalwart, Chen Kaige, "Farewell to My Concubine" which shared the Palme d'Or at Cannes for best picture.
Gong Li played a prostitute turned opera star's wife turned enemy of the people in Kaige's stunning, Farewell, My Concubine (1993). Zhang once again directed Gong Li in the well-received historical epic "To Live" (1994), which followed a married couple over 30 years of modern Chinese history. Shanghai Triad" (1995) offered Gong Li a tour-de-force role as a nightclub chanteuse and gangster's moll. Li reunited with Chen Kaige for "Temptress Moon" (1996). She married Singapore tobacco tycoon Ooi Hoe Soeng. A year later, Gong made her English-language debut in Wayne Wang's "Chinese Box,” staring opposite Jeremy Irons. She returned her native land for her next feature, “Piao liang ma ma” (“Breaking the Silence,” 1999), China’s official entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2000. She appeared in her first English language role opposite Jeremy Irons in Chinese Box (1997).
Gong Li went on to star in what was reported as the most expensive Asian film to date, “The Emperor and the Assassin” (1999). Her star continuing to shine brightly in such homegrown efforts as Zhou Yu's Train and Wong Kar Wei's romantic drama 2046, the Chinese actress raised a few eyebrows when cast in the role of a Japanese geisha in director Rob Marshall's 2005 effort Memoirs of a Geisha, the story of a Japanese girl torn from her penniless family and raised in a geisha house where she blossoms into the legendary geisha, Sayuri (Ziyi Zhang).
Li was then set to star in two big budget features: “Miami Vice” (2006), a remake of the popular 1980s television show starring Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx, followed “Behind the Mask”, a thriller that follows serial killer Hannibal Lecter’s childhood in Lithuania to his arrival in the United States.
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