Brigitte Lin
Birthday: 1954-11-03
Place of Birth: Taipei, Taiwan
Biography: Brigitte Lin Ching-Hsia (Chinese: 林青霞; pinyin: Lín Qīngxiá; born 3 November 1954) is a Taiwanese actress. She was a popular actress, regarded as an icon of Chinese cinema, who acted in both Taiwanese and Hong Kong films. She retired in 1994, although she had a minor role in the 1998 film Bishonen. She was born in Taipei, and was "discovered" in 1972 by a film producer, and first appeared in many Taiwanese romance films based on the novels of Chiung Yao. Her movie debut is in Chuangwai. She later switched over to making movies in Hong Kong. At the height of her popularity she was arguably one of the most sought-after actresses in the Chinese film industry. She starred in more than 100 movies. In Hong Kong movies, Lin made a career of playing transgender roles: in Peking Opera Blues she plays a tomboy who dresses in male Western clothes; in New Dragon Gate Inn she is a woman who dresses as a man, and in Swordsman II and III she plays a male character who castrates himself for power and so is now slowly turning into a woman. She had a good working relationship with Tsui Hark, acting in many of the films he directed (like Peking Opera Blues) and produced (Swordsman II). She married businessman Michael Ying in 1994 and left the film industry. She has two daughters, born in 1997 and 2001. She made her first public appearance since her marriage at a screening of Ashes of Time Redux at the 2008 New York Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brigitte Lin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Chungking Express
Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other...
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The Bride with White Hair 2
For ten years, Cho has been in the snow of Mount Shin Fung waiting for a rare flower to blossom that...
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Police Story
Officer Chan Ka Kui manages to put a major Hong Kong drug dealer behind the bars practically alone, ...
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Dragon Inn
During the Ming Dynasty, Tso Siu Yan, a power-crazed eunuch who rules his desert region of China as ...
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Ashes of Time
Ouyang Feng is a heartbroken and cynical man who spends his days in the desert, connecting expert sw...
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Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain
In the fifth century, constant civil war scars western China. To escape death, Ti, a young scout, ju...
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Fantasy Mission Force
A force of loners and fighters is put together to try and rescue the generals and save the war effor...
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The Dream of the Red Chamber
Pao-yu is in love with his cousin, Lin Tai-yu, but his family has other marital plans for him that w...
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The Maidens of Heavenly Mountains
Legend has it that in a faraway place beyond the edge of the earth, there exists a broken-hearted ma...
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Peking Opera Blues
In 1913 Beijing, three fierce women—disguised rebel Tsao Wan, jewel-seeking Sheung Hung, and opera h...
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Swordsman III: The East Is Red
A royal official accompanies a Portuguese warship to the Black Cliffs to see the site of the defeat ...
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The Legend of the Swordsman
Ling Wu Chung decides to hide from the chaotic world. Before leaving, he visits his friends, a tribe...
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Deadful Melody
A young security man must prove himself worthy by defending the one object wanted by all the masters...
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The Bride with White Hair
The sensitive swordsman Cho Yi-Hang is tired of his life. He is the unwilling successor to the Wu-Ta...
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Peony Pavilion
In 1930s Suzhou, the fifth wife of an opium-addicted aristocrat, her husband's female cousin, and a ...
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All the Wrong Spies
In Hong Kong, Circa 1940s, World War II, private detective Yoyo and friend Inspector Teddy Robin joi...
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Seven Black Heroines
A group of women with various criminal skills are thrown into prison during World War 2. They escape...
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Pink Force Commando
In a world where cowboys coexist with Chinese thugs, Arab swordsmen, Nazi troops, Klansmen and spand...
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The Three Swordsmen
Samurai and Smiling Sam are two famous martial arts masters in Central China. On the night before th...
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The Other Side of Gentleman
As part of a sociology experiment, Brigitte Lin tries to get lower-class playboy Alan Tam to fall in...
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Fire Dragon
Rebel fighter Yuen Ming (Max Mok) must protect an important letter with content that can expose the ...
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Love Massacre
Set in San Francisco, Love Massacre follows college student Ivy as she tries to help her friend Joy ...
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Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land
Two drama companies happened to share one auditorium for rehearsal. Friction was inevitable. One of ...
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Web of Deception
Jane is unknowingly being blackmailed by her co-worker May. When May's roommate Queenie needs a larg...
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Dream Lovers
Musician Song Yu and jewellery designer Yuet-heung, who barely know each other, meet in their dreams...
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Starry Is the Night
As Cai Mei, a single 40 year old woman and a social worker starts a relationship with a teen-ager Ti...
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The Black Panther Warriors
A group of specialists are recruited to steal from a police station....
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Red Dust
Stretching across the canvas of the Sino-Japanese War of the 30s, the subsequent Japanese surrender ...
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Lady in Black
Kin Seng (Leung Ka Fai) falls into big debts in the gambling house. He persuades his loving wife, Ma...
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True Colours
Lung and Wong are buddies in their ferocious youth. Lung fled from his motherland to escape a death ...
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Handsome Siblings
One hundred seventy years ago, a wise monk made a section of land known as the Villians Valley, a sa...
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The Eagle Shooting Heroes
A power struggle between the Queen's treasonous lover and a princess occurs amid musical numbers, sl...
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A Team of Prisoners, famous thieves and great fighters are assembled by a shadowy government agency ...
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The Forest of Forever
Among lofty mountains and valley, a family’s business successor, Luo Ya-nan, meets an engineer, Lu C...
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Different Love
Brigitte Lin is Sung Hsiao Yu, a young girl in love with Wen Hsing Yu (Charlie Chin), a botanist who...
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Ghost of the Mirror
Adapted from a Tang Dynasty fantasy tale, Sung Chuen-sau used the story of a scholar meeting a femal...
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Gone with the Cloud
After the death of her parents, a young woman (Tang Bao Yun) is forced to work as a barmaid to suppo...
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My Funny Intern
Alan Tang plays a famous soccer coach who comes down with the flu. He goes to a clinic for help and ...
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Outside the Window
Brigitte Lin's debut film is a melodrama in which her character gets involved in a socially unaccept...
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Forever My Love
Alan Tang plays an engineering student in Taipei, Taiwan who meets and falls in love with another co...
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The Women Soldiers
Four girls graduate from high school with the hope of joining the army, even though that may clash w...
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The Thirty Million Dollar Rush
Treasury employee Fatty (Eric Tsang) discovered that bags of used 30 million in Hong Kong Dollars ha...
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Misty Drizzle
A divorced entrepreneur (Yueh Yang) and his handsome partner (Charlie Chin) both fall for the beauti...
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Little Sister-in-law
Mr. and Mrs. Ho are longing for a grandson. Their son, Ho Chieh and daughter-in-law, Wan Ping, come ...
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Love of the White Snake
This early Brigitte Lin film is based on the same Chinese folk tale that Tsui Hark later used as his...
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Come Fly with Me
Charlie Chin is Cheng Chieh, an engineer obsessed with flying. Brigitte Lin is Liu Yen-mei, a rich ...
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The Autumn Love Song
When a rich guy met a poor gal and fell in love, his authoritative father disapproved of their relat...
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There's No Place like Home
Taiwanese romance film released to commemorate the 9th anniversary of First Films' founding....
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The House for Love
Lo Wen (Chin Han) is enamored of his college sweetheart Xiao Yu (Brigitte Lin), and the two wish to ...
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Run Lover Run
Brigitte Lin stars as a young girl on the cusp of becoming a woman...a problem for her mother, who t...
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Love's Many Faces
An unusual tale about the love between a female cat-burglar and a university student....
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Return of Monsoon
Chia Yi is already engaged but she still feels lonely deep in her heart. She has a tough decision to...
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Bishonen
A hustler and a model policeman who is uneasy with his own secret homosexuality begin a secret relat...
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By Love Obsessed
While taking pictures in a remote forest, a young photographer encounters a beautiful, mysterious gi...
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Seven Foxes
Billionaire Suen falls seriously ill, he hopes to find his only son who has been missing for twenty ...
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Poor Chasers
Pairs of best college friends, Shen Jung (Brigitte Lin) and Li Lun-mei (Chelsia Chan); Chen Cheng-hs...
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Morning Fog
In "Morning Fog", Brigitte Lin plays Tu Hsiao Meng, a spirited young woman who's had an unenviable l...
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Lily Under the Gun
In a valiant attempt to rescue her younger brother, a young woman goes head to head with a group of ...
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Burn Phoenix Burn
A young lady sacrificed her first love when she discovered her boyfriend had a crush on her younger ...
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Eight Hundred Heroes
As battle rages in Shanghai, a single battalion of soldiers led by Xie Jinyuan is ordered to hold ba...
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The Unforgettable Character
The Unforgettable Character is a 1975 Taiwanese romantic drama film directed by Chang Mei-chun and w...
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The Chasing Game
Mandarin movie about the romance of an undergraduate with the prettiest girl on campus....
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The Wild Goose on the Wing
After studying drama in the UK, Tan-feng returns to Taiwan to investigate her sister's death. She su...
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The Misty Moon
Brigitte Lin and Charlie Chin star in this Taiwanese drama about a kindergarten teacher who falls in...
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An Unforgettable Day
Taiwanese romantic drama set in a mining town starring Brigitte Lin....
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Night Orchid
A secret society is out to ruin a nobleman’s reputation and destroy those closest to him while a swo...
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Cloud of Romance
TUAN Wan-lu is a naïve and carefree young woman raised in the family of a professor and doted on by ...
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Love, Love, Love
Love, Love, Love is a Taiwanese film, released in 1974 by Central Motion Pictures Corporation and sp...
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The Life God
Tells the story of "Bao sheng da di"--A marvelous man who wanted to become a doctor so that he could...
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The Love Affair of Rainbow
The son of a wealthy man married a peasant’s daughter against his family’s objection . When he becam...
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The Great Surprise
Taiwanese comedy. A large diamond named "The Light of Shanghai" is given as a gift to the boss of S...
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Royal Tramp
The story of Wai Siu Bo, a pimp who after saving Chan Kan Nam, the leader of the Heaven and Earth so...
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Royal Tramp 2
After discovering that the Empress is actually Lung Erh, a member of the St Dragon Sect, and that sh...
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