Li Bingbing
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Li at the 2011 Cannes film festival
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| Background information | |
| Chinese name | 李冰冰 |
| Pinyin | Lǐ Bīngbīng (Mandarin) |
| Jyutping | Lei5 Bing1-bing1 (Cantonese) |
| Born |
February 27, 1973 Wuchang City, China |
| Occupation | Actress, singer |
| Years active | 1994–present |
| Ancestry | Jinzhong, Shanxi, China |
Li Bingbing (born February 27, 1973) is a Chinese actress and singer.
Li was born in Wuchang City, China. She had no intention of becoming an actress initially and she enrolled specifically in a high school for prospective school teachers. However, upon graduation, she discovered her interest in acting and was eventually persuaded by a friend to join the Shanghai Theatre Academy in 1993.
Li rose to fame after starring in Zhang Yuan's Seventeen Years (1999), which won her the Best Actress Award in the 1999 Singapore Film Festival. In 2001, Li starred in the television series Young Justice Bao, which propelled her to become one of the most famous actresses in China. That year she was awarded the title of one of the "Top Ten Best TV actors/actresses in China".
Li was subsequently labelled as an "action actress" as she starred in a number of wuxia television series, such as Taiji Prodigy and Eight Heroes.
In 2004, Li starred in director Dayyan Eng's romantic comedy Waiting Alone, which received three Chinese Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Li's first Best Actress nomination at the Golden Rooster Awards. That same year, Li won the title of the Most Popular Actress at the 12th Beijing College Film Festival. She went on to star in Feng Xiaogang's A World Without Thieves, which earned her a nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 2006 Hundred Flowers Awards.
In 2005, Li was invited by director Yi Li to star in his film The Knot, which won her Best Actress awards at the 2007 Huabiao Awards and at the 2008 Hundred Flowers Awards. The film was also China's entry for the Best Foreign Film award at the 2008 Academy Awards. She then co-starred with Jet Li and Jackie Chan in the 2008 blockbuster The Forbidden Kingdom as the White-Haired Witch. In order to lend realism to her scenes, Li performed the action sequences scenes herself without a stunt double.
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