Shu Qi
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Shu Qi Real name Li Lin Hui Date of birth April 16, 1976 Birthplace Taiwan Nationality Taiwanese Religion Catholic Height 168 cm Measurements 86-61-89 Weight 50 kg Bloodtype A Artist name Shu Qi Alternate spelling Hsu Chi Shu Kei Fanny Lin Fanny Hsu Filmography Beijing Rocks Bishonen Blacksheep Affair, The Born to Be King City of Glass Dragon Heat Extreme Crisis Eye 2, The Flyin Dance Foliage, The For Bad Boys Only Fruit is Swelling, The Gorgeous Growing Up Haunted Office Hidden Whisper Home in My Heart Home Sweet Home Iron Sister Island Tales, The Just One Look Looking for Mr. Perfect L-O-V-E... Love Love Is Not a Game, But a Joke Love: Amoeba Style Love Generation Hong Kong Love Me, Love My Money Lucky Guy, The Man Called Hero, A Martial Angels Metade Fumaca Millennium Mambo My Dad Is a Jerk My Loving Trouble 7 My Name Is Nobody Portland Street Blues Queer Story, A Seoul Raiders Sex & Zen II Skyline Cruisers So Close Storm Riders, The Street Angels Those Were the Days Three Times Till Death Do Us Laugh Transporter, The Unexpected Challenges Visible Secret Viva Erotica Wesley's Mysterious File, The When I Look Upon the Stars Women from Mars Young & Dangerous 5 Young & Dangerous: The Prequel Biography She was born Li Lin Hui into a relatively poor Taiwanese family. As a child she never had much money and were very seldom allowed to buy things for herself. An upbringing with being hit and scolded as main ingredients made her grow up early and at the same time develop a very independent character. As a teenager she ran away for shorter periods more than 10 times and at the age of 16, she took off for six months. Shu Qi knows if she doesn’t strip, she can’t be a star Shu Qi, August 2002 At 17 she started modelling, with a face and body to die for, she soon was doing nude picture series. Seing her face on a magazine cover, Hong Kong producer Manfred Wong tracked her down and became her agent. He signed her for Sex & Zen II, a category III (adults only, soft porn) movie. After that she starred in Viva Erotica, which won her recognition and several prizes. In 1997 her manager Manfred Wong told TIME: “If you’re an unknown and from Taiwan, there is no such thing as doing art and high-class films. Shu Qi knows if she doesn’t strip, she can’t be a star.” A telling remark about the state of Hong Kong Cinema. Making movies and more movies, but no Crouching Tiger After her awards for "Viva Erotica", Shu Qi started getting roles in typical Hong Kong movies. She showed off that gorgeous body, she smiled her dazzling widescreen smile and she fluttered around as a no-brain butterfly (how Hong Kong movies see a lot of their female stars). But when she was allowed to act ("For Bad Boys Only", "City of Glass" and "Portland Street Blues"), she showed enormous potential. For a movie star to cross over from (soft) porn to mainstream is extremely difficult – and nearly unheard of in Hong Kong. For any actress anywhere to get good female roles with meat on them is very hard as well. When you see a good role – grab it fast. Shu Qi got the chance in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". Ang Lee’s first choice for the role of Jen (Zhang Ziyi got it) was Shu Qi. She was on board for eight weeks, before she was pulled by her manager Manfred Wong – to do a commercial for Coca-Cola in Japan! If Wong succeeds in keeping her locked in the local industry’s churn-out-the-crap-fast way of doing business, we may never see Shu Qi live up to her full potential. And the winner is… But there is hope yet. Leading roles in movies like Millenium Mambo, Beijing Rocks, The Transporter and several upcoming projects shows a tendency towards better roles to showcase Shu Qi’s talent as a powerful actress – and not just a knock-out body with a trademark dizzying smile. As much as we like to see 5-6 new films with Shu Qi every year, we would much prefer to see her in one or two really good films. For that to happen, she would probably have to look outside Hong Kong. Hong Kong movie industry still has tremendous energy, but scripts are inferior, production too fast and good roles for women virtually non-existent.These days Korea have taken over in Asia, as the country where the best movies are being made. And the journalists in Hong Kong are enough to drive anybody away. Can you hear the claws being sharpened in this line from The Straits Times’ Clara Chow: “RUMOUR has it that Taiwanese starlet Shu Qi, Chinese actress Vicki Zhao Wei and Hongkong singer-actress Karen Mok did not get along on the set of their latest movie, So Close.” (August 27, 2002) Not belittling Vicki Zhao or Karen Mok, but Shu Qi is by far the better actress. Starlet?? Luckily, several directors outside of Hong Kong and Asia are starting to be aware of, what Shu Qi can do. If she is lucky and chooses wisely, we may see her on the podium at a future Oscar-night. She has the potential. Did she dream of that as a little girl? Did she practice her acceptance speech in front of the mirror? Wishes do come true from time to time – “A date, did you say? Oh, Yes!” All info comes from http://www.shuqi.org/main/main.shtml This is one AWESOME site. o:)