Gong Li

Gong Li

1965-12-31 Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China 42 Credits

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...

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Saturday Fiction

Saturday Fiction

2021

as Yu Jin

6.8
Acting

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

The Hand

2021

as Miss Hua

7.1
Acting

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

One-Tenth of a Millimeter Apart

2021

as Self (archive footage)

7.1
Acting

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

Leap

2020

as Lang Ping

6.6
Acting

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

Leap

2020

Executive Producer

6.6
Producing

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

Mulan

2020

as Xian Niang

6.9
Acting

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

The Monkey King 2

2016

as Lady White

5.9
Acting

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

Coming Home

2014

as Feng Wanyu

7.3
Acting

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

What Women Want

2011

as Li Yilong

6.0
Acting

After an accident, a chauvinistic executive gains the ability to hear what women are really thinking.

Shanghai

Shanghai

2010

as Anna Lan-Ting

6.1
Acting

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

Hannibal Rising

2007

as Lady Murasaki

6.2
Acting

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

Curse of the Golden Flower

2006

as Empress Phoenix

6.9
Acting

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

Miami Vice

2006

as Isabella

6.0
Acting

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

Memoirs of a Geisha

2005

as Hatsumomo

7.7
Acting

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

The Hand

2005

as Miss Hua

Acting

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

Eros

2004

as Miss Hua

5.7
Acting

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

2046

2004

as Su Li Zhen

7.2
Acting

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

Zhou Yu's Train

2002

as Zhou Yu / Xiu

6.4
Acting

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

Breaking the Silence

2000

as Sun Liying

6.4
Acting

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

The Emperor and the Assassin

1998

as Lady Zhao

7.0
Acting

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

Chinese Box

1997

as Vivian

5.9
Acting

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

Temptress Moon

1996

as Pang Ruyi

6.8
Acting

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

Shanghai Triad

1995

as Bijou / Xiao Jinbao

6.8
Acting

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

Big Fish in China

1994

as Self

Acting

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

西楚霸王II 楚漢爭霸

1994

Acting
The Great Conqueror's Concubine

The Great Conqueror's Concubine

1994

as Lu Zhi

7.7
Acting

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

To Live

1994

as Xu Jiazhen

8.1
Acting

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

A Soul Haunted by Painting

1994

as Pan Yuliang

5.8
Acting

A Chinese prostitute weds, studies painting, and becomes a renowned artist and professor in Paris.

The Maidens of Heavenly Mountains

The Maidens of Heavenly Mountains

1994

as Mou Hang-wan

5.2
Acting

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

Flirting Scholar

1993

as Chou Heung

7.4
Acting

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

Farewell My Concubine

1993

as Juxian

7.9
Acting

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

Mary from Beijing

1992

as Mary

5.8
Acting

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

The Story of Qiu Ju

1992

as Qiu Ju

7.3
Acting

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

潇洒闯红尘

1992

Acting

Special Musical Movie

Raise the Red Lantern

Raise the Red Lantern

1991

as Song Lian

7.9
Acting

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

The Banquet

1991

as Self

5.2
Acting

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

God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai

1991

as Yu San / Yu Mong

6.9
Acting

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

Ju Dou

1990

as Ju Dou

7.2
Acting

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

A Terra-Cotta Warrior

1989

as Dong Er / Zhu Lili

6.7
Acting

An awakened immortal warrior struggles between defending the emperor and the actress he believes to be his love of old.

Code Name: Cougar

Code Name: Cougar

1989

as Ah Li

5.5
Acting

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

The Empress Dowager

1989

as Guilian

6.5
Acting

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

Red Sorghum

1988

as Jiu'er

7.2
Acting

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...