Xu Jinglei
Xu Jinglei images, movies, bio – Xu Jinglei (徐靜蕾, born 16 April 1974) is a Chinese actress and film director.
Xu Jinglei rose to fame in China with the television series A Sentimental Story, where she played a policewoman who falls for a gangster. Thereafter, she starred in romance film Spicy Love Soup, where she won the Society Award at the Golden Phoenix Awards for her performance. In 1998, Xu and actor Li Yapeng paired up in Cherish Our Love Forever, a story based off the life and love between a group of young college students. The two would later pair up again for the film sequel Eternal Moment, set ten years after the drama. Xu solidified her success in 2002 with the films Spring Subway and I Love You, both popular hits in China and particularly with younger audiences. Along with Zhang Ziyi, Zhou Xun and Zhao Wei, Xu was hailed as one of the Four Dan Actresses in China. Xu won the Huabiao Award for Outstanding New Actress for her performance in I Love You and the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress for Spring Subway. The same year, she won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Far from Home. In 2006, Xu starred alongside Takeshi Kaneshiro , Tony Leung and Shu Qi in the crime drama Confession of Pain. She received her first acting award in Hong Kong; the year’s Most Attractive Actress at the Hong Kong Society of Cinematographers Awards. Xu was then cast as the female lead in the war epic, The Warlords by Peter Chan. After an extended hiatus from acting, Xu made a comeback in the science fiction thriller Battle of Memories. [wikipedia]