Jacklyn Wu | |||||||||
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Chinese name | 吳倩蓮 (traditional) | ||||||||
Chinese name | 吴倩莲 (simplified) | ||||||||
Pinyin | Wú Qiànlián (Mandarin) | ||||||||
Jyutping | Ng4 Sin3-lin4 (Cantonese) | ||||||||
Born |
Yuanchang Township, Yunlin County, Taiwan |
3 July 1968 ||||||||
Other name(s) | Jacqueline Wu, Ng Sin-lin | ||||||||
Occupation | Actress, singer | ||||||||
Years active | 1990–2005 | ||||||||
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Jacklyn Wu Chien-lien (born 3 July 1968) is a Taiwanese actress and singer who started her career in Hong Kong. She is best known to Western audiences for her role in Ang Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), where she played the second of three sisters. She started her acting career when Johnnie To cast her opposite Andy Lau in A Moment of Romance (1990).
Wu graduate from Taiwan International Arts University
Her most acclaimed role to date is in Ann Hui's Eighteen Springs (1997), for which she received a Hong Kong Film Award Best Actress nomination and won the Hong Kong Film Critics Society Best Actress Award.
Wu has also acted in television series produced in Taiwan, mainland China, and Singapore. Since the turn of the millennium her output has dwindled. Her last film appearance was in the 2004 Hong Kong film Jiang Hu.