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Gong Li is China's best-known actress in the West, with roles in films by Zhang Yimou, Ang Lee, and John Woo. See her photos, videos, credits, awards, and personal details on IMDb.
- January 1, 1
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- Shenyang, China
Gong Li is a renowned Chinese actress who starred in several Oscar-nominated films by Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige. She also appeared in English-language movies such as Memoirs of a Geisha and Miami Vice.
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- ‘Ju Dou’ (1990) Rotten Tomatoes Scores: 100% Gong played the titular character in Ju Dou, a drama film directed by Zhang Yimou. The film follows Ju Dou who is trapped in an arranged marriage to an older and abusive textile factory owner.
- ‘The Monkey King 2’ (2016) Rotten Tomatoes Scores: 100% The Monkey King 2 is loosely based on the Chinese novel Journey to the West and serves as a sequel to the 2014 film The Monkey King.
- ‘Raise the Red Lantern’ (1991) Rotten Tomatoes Scores: 97% Raise the Red Lantern is set in 1920s China and tells the story of Songlian, played by Gong, a young woman who becomes the fourth wife of a wealthy man in a polygamous household.
- ‘Shanghai Triad’ (1995) Rotten Tomatoes Scores: 90% Set in Shanghai during the 1930s, Shanghai Triad centers around a young boy named Shuisheng (Wang Xiaoxiao) who is sent to the city to work as a servant for his uncle, Tang (Li Baotian).
- To Live. You Ge, Gong Li, Niu Ben. 35 votes. Fugui's (Ge You) gambling leads him to lose everything, including his wife, Jiazhen (Gong Li), and his home. Over the following decades, he struggles to live as a peasant.
- Raise the Red Lantern. Gong Li, Ma Jingwu, Saifei He. 38 votes. Teenage Songlian (Gong Li), whose family has been devastated by the recent death of her father, becomes the third concubine of wealthy Master Chen (Ma Jingwu).
- Memoirs of a Geisha. Zhang Ziyi, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh. 28 votes. In the 1920s, 9-year-old Chiyo (Suzuka Ohgo) gets sold to a geisha house. There, she is forced into servitude, receiving nothing in return until the house's ruling hierarchy determines if she is of high enough quality to service the clientele -- men who visit and pay for conversation, dance and song.
- Farewell My Concubine. Leslie Cheung, Fengyi Zhang, Gong Li. 26 votes. Douzi (Leslie Cheung) is sent to an operatic school by his mother. Shitou (Fengyi Zhang), also a student at the school, befriends him, and the two endure abuse by the wretched school staff.
- Ju Dou. Ju Dou was originally banned in China when it came out in 1990, but it was one of Gong Li’s earliest prominent roles. It is also a rare example of Technicolor being used in this time period, as it had become uncommon by the nineties.
- The Story of Qiu Ju. The Story of Qiu Ju, like so many of Zhang Yimou’s movies, is based on a novel. The film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was a surprise hit abroad.
- Farewell My Concubine. Chen Kaige’s Farewell My Concubine is a cinematic masterpiece and one of the most stunning films ever made in movie history. Leslie Cheung portrays Cheng Dieyi, a Chinese opera singer who was trained to take on the female roles in opera performances.
- Raise the Red Lantern. Raise the Red Lantern is one of the most stunning movies when it comes to the cinematography, and that lends itself to the lanterns that appear throughout the film.
Browse the complete list of movies and TV shows featuring Gong Li, a Chinese-born Singaporean film actress and a Zhang Yimou collaborator. See her roles, awards, and biography on TMDB.
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