Anastasia Lin
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Lin speaks at the National Press Club
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January 1, 1990 Hunan, China |
| Residence | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Citizenship | Canadian |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto |
| Occupation | Actress, model, human rights activist |
| Awards | Miss World Canada 2015, Leo Award for Best Actress 2016 |
| Website | anastasialin |
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| Chinese | 林耶凡 | ||||||
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Lín Yēfán |
Anastasia Lin (born January 1, 1990) is a Chinese-Canadian actress, model, beauty pageant titleholder and human rights advocate.
Lin won the Miss World Canada title in 2015 and was to represent Canada at Miss World 2015 pageant to be held in China but was refused a visa by Chinese authorities after being declared persona non grata. The news of her rejection from the pageant, and her subsequent attempt to enter China through Hong Kong, caused global media attention for several weeks, leading to a front page article in The New York Times and op-eds and editorials in major newspapers. Most of the coverage praised what it said was Lin's bravery for "resistance to tyranny" using the novel form of a beauty pageant, and she was hailed as "an outspoken advocate for freedom of conscience." Lin represented Canada at Miss World 2016 in Washington, District of Columbia.
Analysts widely suspected the reason for refusal of entry to be due to her advocacy of human rights in China and choice of film roles, and her rejection from the pageant caused widespread reflection on the ability of authoritarian China to exert its influence far beyond its own borders.
Lin is a graduate of University of Toronto (with Bachelor of Arts in theater and minor in history and political science) and has based her career acting in films that deal with human rights issues in her country of birth. In January 2016, she was listed as one of the "Top 25 Under 25" by MTV Fora. In June 2016 she won the Leo Award for best lead performance by a female for her role in the film The Bleeding Edge.
Lin was born in Hunan, China, attending elementary school there until moving to Toronto with her mother at the age of 13. She grew up in Changsha near the 1,000-year-old Yuelu Academy, where her mother took her to practice calligraphy as a toddler.
Lin's father is the CEO of a large company that supplies medical equipment, Samsung cellphones, and other products in China; he owned a chain of 50 hotpot restaurants, before selling them during the SARS crisis.
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