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Mainland China and Taiwan meet in new film festival

Shanghaiist - Found Jun. 24, 2009
Chinese director Feng Xiaogang inaugurated the festival together with Taiwan actress Shu Qi.

Posted on June 24, 2009, 11:00 am

Who Wore Bottega Veneta Better? Rosario Dawson or Shu Qi

Red Carpet Fashion Awards - Found May. 14, 2009
... dress, with matching heels, to her LA premiere of Seven Pounds, with co-star Will Smith, back in December. Shu Qi gave us our first re-run...

Posted on May 14, 2009, 1:00 pm

Jury member and Taiwan actress Shu Qi is seen on stage as she ...

CHINAdaily - Found May. 13, 2009
Jury members Taiwan actress Shu Qi (L) and Italian actress Asia Argento pose on the red carpet as they arrive for the screening of the animated film

Posted on May 13, 2009, 8:53 am

Jury member Shu Qi poseat the 62nd Cannes Film Festival

CHINAdaily - Found May. 13, 2009
Ju Jury member and Taiwan actress Shu Qi is seen on stage as she attends the opening ceremony of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival May 13, 2009. The 62nd ...

Posted on May 13, 2009, 7:28 am

Shu Qi arrive for screening of film "Inglourious Basterds"

EView Week - Found May. 22, 2009
Taiwan actress Shu Qi arrive on the red carpet for the read more

Posted on May 22, 2009, 2:48 am

First Cross-Straits Film Show opens in Taipei

People's Daily Online - Found Jun. 17, 2009
Actress Shu Qi (R) and director Feng Xiaogang attend the opening ceremony of the first Cross-Straits Film Show in Taipei of southeast China's Taiwan,

Posted on June 17, 2009, 8:15 am

FILM REVIEW: The odd couple

Taipei Times Online - Found Jun. 18, 2009
Page 16 FILM NOTES: If You Are the One (????) DIRECTED BY: Feng Xiaogang (???) STARRING: Ge You (??) as Qin Fen, Shu Qi (??) as ...

Posted on June 18, 2009, 7:39 am

New York, I Love You

Indiewire - Found Jun. 9, 2009
Ethan Hawke, John Hurt, Irfan Khan, Shia LaBeouf, Cloris Leachman, Natalie Portman, Rachel Bilson, Shu Qi, Christina Ricci, Olivia Thirlby...

Posted on June 9, 2009, 8:14 am

Stormriders [Anniversay Edition] [Blu-ray]

MovieWeb - Found Jun. 7, 2009
Muse (Shu Qi) takes care of Cloud, and her father gives Cloud his own arm for future fights.

Posted on June 7, 2009, 1:03 pm

Enlight plans ambitious release slate

Variety - Found Jun. 12, 2009
... include Benny Chan's "Entire City on Red Alert," which started lensing in Hong Kong last month and features Shu Qi and Zhang Jingchu.

Posted on June 12, 2009, 7:15 am

Shu Qi Biography

Shu Qi
extracted from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Shu.
Shu Qi

Chinese name 舒淇 (Traditional)
Chinese name 舒淇 (Simplified)
Birth name 林立慧 (Lín Lìhuì)
Born April 16, 1976 (1976-04-16) (age 33)
Taipei, Taiwan
Years active 1996 - present
Official site www.shu-qi.com

Shu Qi (Chinese: 舒淇; pinyin: Shū Qí; Wade-Giles: Shu Ch'i; born April 16, 1976) is the stage name of a Taiwanese actress born Lin Li-Hui (林立慧). Her stage name is occasionally romanized as Hsu Chi, Shu Qui or Shu Kei (Cantonese). Her name is sometimes seen in the Western order as Qi Shu.

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Biography

Early career

Born in Sindian City, Taipei County, the young Shu Qi moved to Hong Kong at the age of 17 where she became a model for hardcore adult magazinescitation needed and softcore movie shorts. She is the first Chinese porn idol to have crossed into cinema. She eventually came under the management of Hong Kong producer Manfred Wong, who signed her on to several softcore Hong Kong films such as Sex & Zen II.

Career

Shu Qi in The Transporter. Jason Statham also pictured.

She starred in Derek Yee's 1996 film, Viva Erotica, which was about the erotic film industry in Hong Kong, opposite the late Leslie Cheung and Karen Morris. At the Hong Kong Film Awards, she received the Best Supporting Actress award for the film. Since then, she has appeared in mainstream Hong Kong films such as Gorgeous (1998) opposite Jackie Chan, Stanley Kwan's The Island Tales (1999) and Hou Hsiao-Hsien's critically acclaimed Millennium Mambo (2000).

In 1999, Ang Lee approached the then very in demand Shu for the role of Jen in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Six weeks into filming, her manager, Manfred Wong, not foreseeing the film's massive international success, pulled her out to do a soft drink commercial in Japan, and the part went instead to little known Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi, who went on to international stardom. Shu Qi later parted with her manager because of this.

In 2002, she appeared in the Hollywood film The Transporter and the Asian action film So Close. In 2004, she played the main role in the Hong Kong horror film The Eye 2.

In 2005 she won the Best Actress Award at the 2005 Golden Horse Awards for her three roles in Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Three Times.

In 2006, she was selected by Kenzo to be part of the third advertising campaign for its successful fragrance, Flower by Kenzo. She remains its current face.

In 2008 she was member of the jury of the Berlinale, the Berlin International Film Festival.

Reputation

Despite her involvements in softcore films during her early stage of career, Shu Qi successfully overcame the pressure arisen from the Chinese conservative culture and gained her popularity through her acting talent and attractive appearance. She has been consistently ranked as one of the 99 most desirable women around the world by AskMen.Com

Among the men she has reputedly dated are Leon Lai and Wang Leehom.

In 2008, she was elected by American entertainment channel E! as "The Actress with the World's Sexiest Lips".

Partial filmography

Awards and Nominations

Year Award Film Category Result
1997 Golden Bauhinia Viva Erotica Best Supporting Actress Won
Golden Horse Award Fei Yat Boon Oi Ching Siu Suet Best Actress Nominated
Hong Kong Film Award Viva Erotica Best Supporting Actress Won
Best New Performer Won

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