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Li Bingbing
Chinese actress (born 1973) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Li Bingbing (Chinese: 李冰冰; pinyin: Lǐ Bīngbīng; born February 27, 1973) is a Chinese actress. She gained critical acclaim for her role in Seventeen Years (1999) and received widespread success with films such as A World Without Thieves (2004), The Knot (2006), The Forbidden Kingdom (2008), The Message (2009), and Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010).[2] Li has also starred in Hollywood films Resident Evil: Retribution (2012), Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014), and The Meg (2018).
Li ranked 26th on Forbes China Celebrity 100 list in 2013,[3] 28th in 2014,[4] 13th in 2015,[5] 29th in 2017,[6] and 76th in 2019.[7]
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Li Bingbing was born to a workers' family in a small town of Wuchang, Heilongjiang, China.[8] She has a younger sister Li Xue.[8] At 16, she enrolled in a secondary specialized school, Jixi Normal School (now Heilongjiang University Of Technology).[8] Upon graduation in 1992, she became a probationary music teacher at an elementary school in Harbin for one year.[8] In 1993, she enrolled in the Shanghai Theatre Academy to study acting.[8]
Li gained critical acclaim for her role in Zhang Yuan's Seventeen Years (1999), for which she and Liu Lin shared the Best Actress Award at the 13th Singapore International Film Festival.[9] However, the film went unnoticed in China due to a domestic ban. In 2001, Li gained attention for starring in the popular television series Young Justice Bao. She followed with a number of wuxia television series, such as Taiji Prodigy and Eight Heroes, earning her a label of "action actress."
In 2004, Li achieved breakthrough with her performance in Feng Xiaogang's A World Without Thieves, for which she received a nomination of Best Supporting Actress at the Hundred Flowers Awards.[10] She then starred in Dayyan Eng's romantic comedy film Waiting Alone, for which she received her first Best Actress nomination at the Golden Rooster Awards.[11] In the same year, her sister, Li Xue, became her manager.
In 2009, Li won Best Actress at the 46th Golden Horse Film Awards for her performance in The Message.[12] Li then starred in Tsui Hark's 2010 action-mystery film Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame. She played Shangguan Jing'er, a fictional character based on Shangguan Wan'er, a prestigious politician during the Tang Dynasty.[13] She, along with other partners including Li Xue, established a studio Hesong Entertainment in the same year, co-starring and co-producing the film 1911 with Jackie Chan, which was released in September 2011 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution.[14]
Career in Hollywood
Li Bingbing's first time in an English-language film is Wayne Wang's Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, adapted from Lisa See's 2005 novel of the same title.[15] The film premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.[16] Li started to gain recognition in Hollywood after starring in Resident Evil: Retribution, playing Ada Wong.[17] The same year, she was cast in action fantasy film 400 Boys, directed by British director Alastair Paton.[18]
In 2013, Li attended the 4th Annual US-China Film Summit and received the East-West Talent Award.[19][20] Hollywood magazine Variety also named her Asian Star of the Year.[21] The following year, Li featured in Transformers: Age of Extinction, the fourth installment of the film franchise.[22] This helped solidify her success overseas.[23]
In 2015, she was cast in 3D science fiction thriller Nest (also known as Guardians of the Tomb), a Chinese-Australian co-production that was finally released in January 2018.[24] The same year, it was announced that Li would play China's first female superhero in upcoming film Realm, written by Stan Lee.[25]
In 2018, Li starred with Jason Statham in The Meg, an American-Chinese shark film based on Steve Alten's 1997 novel Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror.[26]
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Social activities
Li Bingbing has established L.O.V.E, a charitable organization dedicated to the promotion of a positive, environmentally responsible lifestyle. She is also one of the founders of the two-year One Million-Tree Forest project, launched in efforts to change the climate environment and help local residents of Gansu Province, Southwest China, to increase their incomes.[29] Her commitment to green and charitable causes has earned her the recognition as "the most influential global ambassador" from World Wildlife Fund.[30]
On July 24, 2013, it was reported that Li has a godfather Wang Lin,[31] a qigong and psi practitioner.[32] Li went to visit Wang for help to cure her mother of her disease.[31]
She is a member of China Zhi Gong Party.[33]
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