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| 2 | Gong Li (巩俐, born 31 December 1965 in Shenyang, China) is a Chinese actress (with Singaporean citizenship since 2008), one of the first to gain international fame since the founding of the People's Republic of China. |
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| 4 | Born in 1965, she entered the Beijing Central Academy of Drama in 1985, and while studying there, caught the attention of Creator/ZhangYimou, who cast her in the lead role in his first film, ''Red Sorghum''. She [[TheMuse went on to star in Zhang's next five films]], ''Film/JuDou'', ''Film/RaiseTheRedLantern'', ''Film/TheStoryOfQiuJu'', ''Literature/ToLive'' and ''Film/ShanghaiTriad'', and had a supporting role in Chen Kaige's ''Film/FarewellMyConcubine'' in 1993. |
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| 6 | Her professional and personal relationship with Zhang became strained in the mid-1990s, and she began pursuing an international career, playing in such films as ''Film/ChineseBox'', ''Film/MemoirsOfAGeisha'' and ''Film/MiamiVice''. She has worked with Creator/StephenChow and co-starred in the 1993 Hong Kong {{Wuxia}} comedy ''Film/FlirtingScholar''. |
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| 8 | She later collaborated again with both Chen (for ''Film/TheEmperorAndTheAssassin'') and Zhang (for ''Film/CurseOfTheGoldenFlower''), and in 2011 co-starred alongside Creator/AndyLau in a Chinese remake of ''Film/WhatWomenWant''. |
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| 12 | * FakeNationality: She's Chinese, but has portrayed Japanese characters in ''Film/MemoirsOfAGeisha'' and ''Film/HannibalRising''. |
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