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Movies
Go Straight to Hell (2010)
Back2Hell (2010)
The Lazarus Papers (2010)
The Bad Penny (2010)
The Gauntlet (2010)
Circle of Pain (2010)
The Confidant (2010)
Locked Down (2010)
Love Ranch (2010)
Chain Letter (2010)
Magic Man (2009)
Crank: High Voltage (2009)
Dim Sum Funeral (2008)
A Beautiful Life (2008)
Toxic (2008)
The Hustle (2008)
The Gene Generation (2007)
Shanghai Baby (2007)
Living & Dying (2007)
Scarface: The World Is Yours (2006)
Southland Tales (2006)
Man About Town (2006)
Edmond (2005)
Nomad (2005) (voice: English version)
Lords of Dogtown (2005)
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Sam gang yi (2004)
Gaau ji (2004)
She Hate Me (2004)
The Beautiful Country (2004)
My Baby’s Daddy (2004)
Paris (2003)
The Extreme Team (2003)
Taxi 3 (2003)
Point of Origin (2002)
Storm Watch (2002)
Face (2002)
The Breed (2001)
Siu lam juk kau (2001) (voice)
The Lost Empire (2001)
Anna and the King (1999)
Wild Wild West (1999)
Row Your Boat (1999)
Somewhere in the City (1998)
Red Corner (1997)
Nixon (1995)
Dead Weekend (1995)
Dead Funny (1994)
The Crow (1994)
Pen Pals (1992)
Hu guang (1988)
Shan cun feng yue (1987)
Yue Yue (1986)
Lei sa Gu Su (1985)
Hai tan (1984)
Biography
Bai Ling (born October 10, 1966) is a Chinese-born American actress.
Bai was born in Chengdu, People’s Republic of China; “Bai”, her family name, literally means “white”. Ling, a common Chinese given name, means clever. Her father, Bai Yuxiang, was a musician in the People’s Liberation Army, and later a music teacher. Her mother, Chen Binbin, was a dancer, stage actress, and a literature teacher in Sichuan University; Bai’s maternal grandfather was a military officer of the Kuomintang army, and thus was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution. In the early 1980s, Bai Ling’s parents divorced, and later remarried. Her mother remarried to the writer Xu Chi, renowned for his report titled Goldbach’s Conjecture, about Chinese mathematician Chen Jingrun. Bai Ling has one older sister Bai Jie, who works for the Chinese tax bureau, and a younger brother Bai Chen, who emigrated to Japan and works for an American company.
Bai has described herself as a very shy child who found that she best expressed herself through acting and performing. She has said that acting allows one to ignore how society tells one to behave and allows other parts within oneself to be expressed. During the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), she learned how to perform by participating in Eight model plays her elementary school shows. After her graduation from middle school, she was sent to do labor work at Shuangliu, a suburb county of Chengdu, where the Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport is located.
Before long, she managed to pass the People’s Liberation Army’s exams, and became an “artist soldier” at Linzhi, Tibet. Her main activity there was entertaining in the musical theater. She also served shortly as an Army nurse. Three years later, she was discharged from the army.
Subsequently, Bai spent some time in a mental hospital. Though she insisted then and now, “I’m not crazy,” she maintains to this day that she is from the moon, where her grandmother lives, “I’m not really in reality. I’m in my own universe and my mind is a million miles somewhere else,” she claims, further explaining, “Why I feel like I come from the moon is because my mother told me I was found somewhere.” She believes that when she looks up at the moon, she can often spot her grandmother there, still living in her childhood home.
Soon after her release from the hospital, Bai joined People’s Art Theater of Chengdu, and became a professional actress. Her performance as a young man in the stage play Yueqin and Little Tiger drew the attention of movie director Teng Wenji, which gained her her first movie role in On The Beach (1985), as a village girl who becomes a factory worker and struggled against her father’s will for her to marry her cousin.
In later years, she appeared in several movies. She temporarily moved to New York in 1991 to attend New York University’s film department as a visiting scholar, but later obtained a special visa that allowed her to remain in the United States until she became a citizen in 1999.
Bai had previously appeared in several Chinese movies. In 1984, Bai appeared as a fishing village girl in the movie On the Beach. Later she filmed several other movies, including Suspended Sentence, Yueyue, Tears in Suzhou without much attention. She became famous after playing a girl with a psychological disorder who has an affair with her doctor, in the film Arc Light directed by Zhang Junzhao. She attended Moscow International Film Festival in 1989. Since coming to the United States in 1991, she has appeared in a number of American movies.
She appeared in The Crow (1994), playing the half-sister/lover of the main villain, Top Dollar. Hu guang was her most celebrated role in the Chinese film industry, and Red Corner (1997) would be considered her break-out role in English film. She was named one of People magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful People in the World” in 1998. She appeared in Chris Isaak’s music video “Please” in 1998. She shaved off her hair, which had exceeded a length of 36 in (90 cm) for her role in Anna and the King, and is widely known in Thailand as “Tuptim”, her character’s name from the film, even though the movie is officially banned because of its depiction of the King of Siam. She filmed scenes for Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005) as Senator Bana Breemu, but her role was cut during editing. She claimed that this was because of her posing nude for the June 2005 issue of Playboy magazine, whose appearance on newsstands coincided with the movie’s May 2005 release, but director George Lucas denied this, stating that the cut had been made more than a year earlier. Her scenes were included in the “deleted scenes” feature of the DVD release.
Later in 2005 Bai was a castmate of the VH1 program called But Can They Sing?. The show gave several non-singer celebrities an attempt at singing on every episode and then allowed the audience and home viewers to vote off one contestant each week. Bai Ling was most famous for her risqué and raunchy get-ups and her performances of Madonna’s “Like a Virgin” and The Ramones’ “I Wanna Be Sedated”. Bai was eliminated just before the grand finale but was invited back on the final week for a special performance of Divinyls’ “I Touch Myself”.
She has appeared in the show Lost as part of Jack’s flashbacks. Her character, Achara, has predictive powers, and is the artist of Jack’s tattoo reading “He walks amongst us, but he is not one of us.” Achara attests to predicting Jack’s leadership role on the island.
Bai made a guest appearance on a episode of Entourage titled “China Town”. She played a stunt co-ordinator named Li Lei, who Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier) sleeps with.
On February 14, 2008 Bai Ling was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport for shoplifting two magazines and a package of batteries. It was an “emotionally crazy” day, Bai explained to E! News. She was coping with the “huge problem of breaking up [before] Valentine’s Day…wrong boyfriend.” She also wrote on her blog after the incident: “Life happens to you either you liked it or not, sometimes I feel you have to be so brave to stand in front of the World, and just hope that people will have a tender heart toward you.” On March 5, 2008 she pleaded guilty to the charge of disturbing the peace. She was then fined $200 (US$700 when totaling the fine and penalties) for the action at the airport.
Trivia
Bai Ling often exposes her boobs at parties because she thinks it’s part of her duty to oblige fans
She wrote a book called Nipples: A Novel
She also made a short film: Nipples: Secrets of My Dreams
One of People Magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful People in the World 1998″
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.
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’s daughter) got cut out (G. Lucas: “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”).
Lives in Marina Del Rey
Name means ‘white spirit’ in English
Member of jury at the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) in 2005; for her light dresses that didn’t always cover her essentials all the time, German tabloids nicknamed her “die Berlinackte” (“the Berlinaked”).
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.
She took classes at The Lee Strasberg Institute (1991) and New York University. (1991)
Cut off most of her waist-length hair for her role in Anna and the King (1999).
Was the July 2007 entry in Stuff magazine’s 2006-2007 pin up calendar.
She turned in one of the most acclaimed performances for her first Hong Kong movie Sam gang yi (2004) ( “Three Extremes: Dumplings”). Her character is a creepy 60 year old ageless beauty, and she helps women by performing illegal abortions, but she also uses the unwanted fetuses to be made into dumplings which is her secret for ageless beauty.
Good friends with Kimberly Stewart.
Arrested for shoplifting at Los Angeles International Airport on February 13, 2008.
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 Ctr.).
When she started working in Hollywood and her English wasn’t as fluent, a woman asked her if she was “bi.” Ling responded enthusiastically, “Oh, yes. I am Bai.” The other woman followed up, “So, you like women?” “Oh yes,” Ling answered. “Men too!” It wasn’t until much later that she understood what was meant.
Personal Quotes
[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.’”
[On public wardrobe malfunctions] “That is part of the job… You have to sell magazines. Sometimes, as an actor, part of our job is to be a clown.”
[On her nude scenes, photos and carefully planned public slips] “If photos of my nipples give a little smile to others, that is my duty. In exchange, I get to enjoy the luxuries of being an actress.”
“In China even the word ’sex’ is dirty. Nobody told me how to please a man.”
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