Xu Qing | |
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Chinese name | 許晴 (traditional) |
Chinese name | 许晴 (simplified) |
Pinyin | Xǔ Qíng (Mandarin) |
Ethnicity | Tujia |
Born |
Beijing, China |
January 22, 1969
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1990–present |
Ancestry | China |
Alma mater | Beijing Film Academy |
Xu Qing (born January 22, 1969), known also as Summer Qing, is a Chinese actress. She was accepted into the acting class of Beijing Film Academy in 1988. She made her debut in the 1990 film Life on a String, directed by Chen Kaige. She graduated from Beijing Film Academy in 1992, and in that year, she was nominated for the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress. In the drama series Laughing in the Wind (2001), she portrayed Ren Yingying and Jin Yong himself said to her that, "You're the Ren Yingying I've always imagined her to be". On November 30, 2009, Xu became a contracted artiste under the talent agency Huayi Brothers. She portrayed Soong Ching-ling in the 2009 Chinese historical film The Founding of a Republic. Xu played the wife of Bruce Willis's character in the 2012 film Looper.