Biography
Gong Li is a Chinese-born Singaporean film actress. Gong first came into international prominence through close collaboration with Chinese director Zhang Yimou and is credited with helping bring Chinese cinema to Europe and the United States. She has twice been awarded the Golden Rooster and the Hundred Flowers Awards as well as the Berlinale Camera, Cannes Festival Trophy, National Board of Review, New York Film Critics Circle Award, and Volpi Cup. She married Singaporean businessman Ooi Hoe...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Saturday Fiction
2021
as Yu Jin
Iconic actress Jean Yu returns to Japanese-occupied China to star in a play directed by her former lover. However, her undercover work for the Allies ...

The Hand
2021
as Miss Hua
Hong Kong, 1960s. Zhang, a shy tailor's assistant, is riveted by his imperious client Miss Hua. Upon meeting her, she seduces him to make sure he will...

One-Tenth of a Millimeter Apart
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Tracing the beginnings of Jet Tone Films, which was founded in 1991 by Wong Kar Wai for the production of Ashes of Time (1994), the film features neve...

Leap
2020
as Lang Ping
After 12 years, the Chinese women's volleyball team again reached the Olympic final. The ups and downs of the Chinese women's volleyball team for more...

Leap
2020
Executive Producer
After 12 years, the Chinese women's volleyball team again reached the Olympic final. The ups and downs of the Chinese women's volleyball team for more...

Mulan
2020
as Xian Niang
When the Emperor of China issues a decree that one man per family must serve in the Imperial Chinese Army to defend the country from Huns, Hua Mulan, ...

The Monkey King 2
2016
as Lady White
Taking place 500 years after the Havoc in Heaven, the Tang Priest is appointed by Buddha to go to the West to fetch the sacred scriptures, only to acc...

Coming Home
2014
as Feng Wanyu
Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolutio...

What Women Want
2011
as Li Yilong
After an accident, a chauvinistic executive gains the ability to hear what women are really thinking.

Shanghai
2010
as Anna Lan-Ting
An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he un...

Hannibal Rising
2007
as Lady Murasaki
The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter – from his hard-scrabble Lithuanian childhood, where he witnesses...

Curse of the Golden Flower
2006
as Empress Phoenix
During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as his wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest...

Miami Vice
2006
as Isabella
A case involving drug lords and murder in South Florida takes a personal turn for undercover detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. Unorthodox C...

Memoirs of a Geisha
2005
as Hatsumomo
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

The Hand
2005
as Miss Hua
Zhang, a shy tailor's assistant, is riveted by his imperious client Miss Hua. Upon meeting her, she seduces him to make sure he will truly remember he...

Eros
2004
as Miss Hua
A three-part anthology about love and sexuality: a menage-a-trois between a couple and a young woman on the coast of Tuscany; an advertising executive...

2046
2004
as Su Li Zhen
Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.

Zhou Yu's Train
2002
as Zhou Yu / Xiu
Zhou Yu, a ceramic artisan in China's rural Northwest, has a deep rapport with Chen Qing, a shy sensitive poet. Taking a long train ride every weekend...

Breaking the Silence
2000
as Sun Liying
Gong Li stars in this low-key drama about a single mother who will do anything to provide for her son. Sun Liying (Li) struggles to care for her heari...

The Emperor and the Assassin
1998
as Lady Zhao
In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot, but as the king's cruelty mo...

Chinese Box
1997
as Vivian
The story of Hong Kong, from New Year's Day to June 30th, 1997, when the British left their colony and turned it over to the People's Republic of Chin...

Temptress Moon
1996
as Pang Ruyi
Set in the decadent 1920s, Temptress Moon tells the very complicated story of a wealthy family living on the outskirts of Shanghai. Their youngest dau...

Shanghai Triad
1995
as Bijou / Xiao Jinbao
Shanghai, China, 1930. When young Shuisheng arrives from the countryside, his uncle Liushu puts him at the service of Bijou, the mistress of Laoda, su...

Big Fish in China
1994
as Self
Recording of the documentary 'Big Fish in China', a film looking at the work and life of Zhang Yimou, one of China's most famous film directors, and h...

西楚霸王II 楚漢爭霸
1994

The Great Conqueror's Concubine
1994
as Lu Zhi
Insurrection deposes the tyrannical first emperor of China during the evil Qin Dynasty. Warrior/general Xiang Yu and the cunning peasant Liu Pang join...

To Live
1994
as Xu Jiazhen
Married couple Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in mid-20th century mainland China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownershi...

A Soul Haunted by Painting
1994
as Pan Yuliang
A Chinese prostitute weds, studies painting, and becomes a renowned artist and professor in Paris.

The Maidens of Heavenly Mountains
1994
as Mou Hang-wan
Legend has it that in a faraway place beyond the edge of the earth, there exists a broken-hearted man with infinite power. Abandoned by his loved ones...

Flirting Scholar
1993
as Chou Heung
A scholar in search of true love. Disguising himself as a houseboy, he indentures himself to a rich family in order to pursue the ravishing servant gi...

Farewell My Concubine
1993
as Juxian
Two boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and endure some of the most troubles...

Mary from Beijing
1992
as Mary
Ma Lei which sounds like "Mary" is a Chinese citizen, living in Hong Kong as the kept woman of a jeweler. She wishes for two things: to get her Hong K...

The Story of Qiu Ju
1992
as Qiu Ju
When her husband is kicked in the groin by the village head, Qiu Ju, a peasant woman, despite her pregnancy, travels to a nearby town, and later a big...

潇洒闯红尘
1992
Special Musical Movie

Raise the Red Lantern
1991
as Song Lian
In 1920s China, 19-year-old Songlian becomes a concubine of a powerful lord and is forced to compete with his three wives for the privileges gained.

The Banquet
1991
as Self
Developer Tsang Siu Chi and his agent have bought two of a group of four properties. Rival developer, Boss Hung has secured the other two properties. ...

God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai
1991
as Yu San / Yu Mong
While battling a psychic gambler, Sing hurtles back in time to 1937 Shanghai. Now he must come to grips with his family history and get back to 1991.

Ju Dou
1990
as Ju Dou
A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her so...

A Terra-Cotta Warrior
1989
as Dong Er / Zhu Lili
An awakened immortal warrior struggles between defending the emperor and the actress he believes to be his love of old.

Code Name: Cougar
1989
as Ah Li
A commercial airliner on a routine flight between Taipei and Seoul is hijacked and taken to mainland China by the Taiwan Revolutionary Army Front. Chi...

The Empress Dowager
1989
as Guilian
Han Hsiang Li's lush epic re-creates the fascinating life and times of Tzu Hsi, the Manchu Qing dynasty empress who rose from the ranks of Emperor Xia...

Red Sorghum
1988
as Jiu'er
An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by the narra...