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- The couple have been married for 18 years. Both originally from Taiwan, Dr. Lin and Mr. Lee met while attending the University of Illinois at Urbana, where she earned her doctorate in microbiology and he received a bachelor's degree in theater. They have two sons, Haan, 16, and Mason, 10.
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Jan 28, 2001 · Dr Jane Lin, microbiologist and assistant professor at New York Medical College in Valhalla, NY, comments on her husband, Ang Lee, who has won Golden Globe for best director for Crouching...
- Who Is Ang Lee?
- Early Years and Education
- Directorial Debut
- Continued Success
Film director, producer and screenwriter Ang Lee made his directorial debut with Pushing Hands in 1992. Later films include Sense and Sensibility and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. In 2006, Lee became the first Asian to win an Academy Award for best director, for the film Brokeback Mountain.
Lee was born on October 23, 1954, in Taipei, Taiwan. He attended the National Taiwan College of Arts, where he graduated in 1975. He then relocated to the United States, where he studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and New York University.
Lee made his directorial debut in 1992 with Pushing Hands and earned Academy Award nominations for his next two films, The Wedding Banquet (1993) and Eat Drink Man Woman (1994). Later films include Sense and Sensibility (1995), starring Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet and Hugh Grant, and for which Lee earned an Academy Award nomination for best picture...
Lee went on to direct Se, jie (2007) and Taking Woodstock (2009). In 2006, he became the first Asian to win an Academy Award for best director, for his film Brokeback Mountain, a small-budget, low-profile independent film based on Annie Proulx's short story about gay ranch hands, starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal. Seven years later, in 2013...
Ang Lee: My family values. ... My wife [Jane Lin, a microbiologist] is the tiger mom in the home, the wise one in the family. I am like the third kid at home. She makes all the rules. We [our two ...
[Reuters] This is what Jane Lin did for her husband Ang Lee, who last week became the first Asian to have won the best director Oscar award for his love movie "Brokeback Mountain." Ang Lee was jobless upon graduation with a master's degree in film production from New York University in 1984. He had to stay at home as a house husband until 1990.
Lee met his future wife Jane Lin, a microbiologist while both were students at the University of Illinois. He married his longtime girlfriend on 19 August 1983. Ang Lee and his wife have welcomed two children together.
Jane grew up as a 1.5 generation immigrant in Southern California, the middle of 3 daughters of traditional Chinese parents. She and her husband are proud of encouraging their two children to become multilingual in English, Mandarin, and Spanish.
Alyssa Jayne Milano was born in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of New York City 's Brooklyn borough on December 19, 1972, [1] the daughter of fashion designer and talent manager Lin Milano and film music editor Thomas M. Milano. [citation needed] She is of Italian descent [2] and has a brother named Cory, [3] who is a decade younger. [4]
