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Zaizai Lin
Taiwanese actress From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Zaizai Lin Chen-shi[a] (Chinese: 林辰唏; pinyin: Lín Chén Xī; born 22 May 1990) is a Taiwanese actress. She made her acting debut in Taipei Exchanges (2010), and was nominated for Best Leading Actress in a Television Series in the 48th Golden Bell Awards for her role in the romance series An Innocent Mistake (2012). She also starred in the lesbian-themed romance series Fragrance of the First Flower (2021–2024), and won Best Leading Actress in a Miniseries in the 57th Golden Bell Awards with her performance in the first season.
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Early life
Lin was born on 22 May 1990 in Taiwan.[2] Her parents divorced when she was ten years old.[3] To support Lin and her sister, her mother worked two jobs as an accountant and market hawker, prompting Lin to start working at a night market and restaurants to alleviate her mother's financial burdens.[3] Lin changed schools six times after her parents' divorce, citing her desire for attention as the reason.[4] During junior high school, she became involved with gangs and spent most of her time in billiard halls and comic book stores.[5][6] She often skipped classes in high school to work and eventually suspended her studies in the sophomore year.[4][7] She was discovered by a talent scout at the age of 16, and she accepted the offer due to the high salary.[5] She appeared on the variety program Guess in 2006, followed by serving as a recurring host on Blackie's Teenage Club starting that same year.[8] In 2008, Lin gained public recognition for her advertisements for Kymco and her appearance in Mayday's music video for "Suddenly I Miss You".[5][8]
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In 2010, Lin made her acting debut in Hsiao Ya-chuan's drama film Taipei Exchanges, starring alongside Gwei Lun-mei.[9] She described the experience as her motivation to enter showbiz, stating she was "fascinated" by the passion of the cast and crew.[5] That same year, she landed a recurring role in the PTS romance series Gloomy Salad Days directed by Zero Chau,[10] and secured leading roles in the sports film Jump Ashin! and the crime film The Killer Who Never Kills the following year.[11][12] In 2012, Lin starred alongside Wang Shih-hsien and Mo Tzu-yi in the romance series An Innocent Mistake,[13] which earned her a nomination for Best Leading Actress in a Television Series in the 48th Golden Bell Awards.[14]
In 2014, Lin played the female lead in the drama film Anywhere Somewhere Nowhere,[15] and appeared as the best friend of Ella Chen's character in the television series The Lying Game.[16] She then starred in Penguins at North Pole, Taiwan's first homosexual family comedy, as a woman romantically involved with another protagonist played by Nikki Hsieh.[17] The same year, she also made cameo appearances in Apple in Your Eye, a TTV series and the latest project of An Innocent Mistake's writer Mag Hsu, as lead actress Amber An's high school classmate,[18] as well as a news anchorwoman in the French sci-fi film Lucy directed by Luc Besson.[19] In 2015, Lin starred in the romance series Pisces.[20] She came out as bisexual in the same year,[21] and later revealed in an interview with TVBS that the decision led to her losing several film role offers.[22] She took a hiatus from acting the following year due to pregnancy and returned in 2017,[23] and starred in the Chinese-Hong Kong romance film A Nail Clipper Romance that was released in the same year.[24]
In 2018, Lin portrayed Alice, the girlfriend of Sam Yang's character, in the drama film Killed by Rock and Roll.[25] Han Cheung of Taipei Times praised her performance as "pretty solid" and lamented her character's lack of screen time.[26] She also starred in the drama film Tomorrow's Star alongside Lara Veronin that same year.[27] In 2021, Lin landed a lead role as Yi-ming, a married woman who reunites with a former romantic interest played by Lyan Cheng, in the lesbian-themed romance series Fragrance of the First Flower.[28] She won Best Leading Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film in the 57th Golden Bell Awards with the role,[29] and reprised it in the second season released in 2024.[28] Lin also made a voice cameo alongside Amber An, Ariel Lin, and Rainie Yang as Wu Kang-ren's character's ex-girlfriends in Mag Hsu's romance film I Missed You that same year.[30] She also played contract assassin Cheng Feng in the second and third seasons of her partner Lin Li-shu's legal drama series Best Interest,[31] and made a cameo appearance with her son in the series finale of the 2024 drama Imperfect Us.[32]
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Personal life
Lin came out as bisexual in 2015.[21][33] She had been dating both males and females since junior high school.[34] In November 2016, Lin announced that she had given birth to a son in September with her boyfriend and film director Lin Li-shu, after five years of dating.[35] The partners raised their son together and lived in Hualien County,[36][37] but they did not marry, with Lin describing them as in an open relationship and stating that they had no plans for marriage.[38][39] In August 2023, Lin published her autobiography We All Have the Ability to Experience Freedom.[40][41]
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Awards and nominations
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Notes
- Also credited as Mathilde Lin.[1]
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