Bai Ling (Chinese: , created October 10, 1966) is a Chinese-born American actress known for her work in movies like “The Crow”, “Red Corner” and “Wild Wild West”, and in TV series like “Entourage” and “Lost”. She speaks both English and Mandarin fluently. The show gave several non-vocalist stars a chance to sing on every episode and after that let the audience as well as home viewers to vote off one contestant each week. Bai Ling was most well-known for her raunchy ensembles and her performances of Madonna’s “Like a Virgin” and The Ramones’ “I Wanna Be Sedated”. She was removed only prior to the grand ending but was encouraged back in the last week to get a unique performance of Divinyls’ “I Touch Myself”. She played a stunt coordinator named Li Lei, who prepares Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier) for scenes in a drink advertisement made for the Chinese marketplace. She’s later seen hanging with all the gang at an EA Sports sponsored video game occasion. In 2011 she served as an official festival judge for the Noor Iranian Film Festival in La.
Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, New York University
Nationality
China
Parents
Bai Yuxiang, Chen Binbin
Siblings
Bai Chen, Bai Jie
Nicknames
Ling Bai
Awards
Hong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting Actress
Movies
Crank: High Voltage, Red Corner, The Crow, The Gene Generation, Wild Wild West, Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, Anna and the King, Southland Tales, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Love Ranch, Dumplings, Taxi 3, She Hate Me, Circle of Pain, Locked Down, A Beautiful Life, Samura...
Star Sign
Libra
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Quote
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[on her role in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)] A lot of my friends asked, "What's it like working with Jude Law? He's so handsome!" I said, "Well, I'm lucky; I got to kick his butt".
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Fact
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Perhaps her first public appearance in the U.S. was on Jan. 16, 1994, when she accepted the Best Supporting Actress Award on behalf of the winner, her countrywoman Li Gong, who could not attend, at the annual New York Film Critics Circle ceremony held at the Pegasus Room (Rockefeller Center).
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Arrested for shoplifting at Los Angeles International Airport on February 13, 2008.
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She turned in one of her most acclaimed performances in her first Hong Kong movie Saam gaang yi (2004) ("Three Extremes: Dumplings"). Her character is a creepy 60-year-old ageless beauty, and she helps women by performing illegal abortions, but also uses the unwanted fetuses to be made into dumplings, which is her secret for ageless beauty.
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Was the July 2007 entry in Stuff magazine's 2006-2007 pin up calendar.
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Cut off most of her waist-length hair for her role in Anna and the King (1999).
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She took classes at The Lee Strasberg Institute (1991) and New York University. (1991)
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Claimed that her role on Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) was cut during editing because of her posing for the June 2005 issue of US "Playboy" magazine. She was the first woman from the People's Republic of China on its cover. George Lucas strongly denied that this was the reason she was cut.
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Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) in 2005. Memorable for her light dresses that didn't always cover her essentials all the time. German tabloids nicknamed her "die Berlinackte" ("the Berlinaked").
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Name means "white spirit" in English.
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Lives in Southern California.
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Had a four-line appearance in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005). Unfortunately her appearance (along with a small cameo of George Lucas' daughter) got cut out. Lucas explained, "It wasn't like it was a major thing to begin with and I just cut that whole secondary story out of the movie quite a while ago".
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Bai Ling served three years in the People Liberation's Army in China entertaining troops in Tibet. She had a bout of depression which sent her to a mental hospital. She then became a Chinese movie star. All of this occurred before she was 18.
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One of People Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People in the World 1998".