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Tang Wei (Chinese: 湯唯; pinyin: Tang Wéi), born 7 October 1979, is a Chinese actress. She was selected from more than 10,000 actresses to appear in Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution (Winner of the 2007 Golden Lion award) as Wong Chia Chi, co-starring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Joan Chen, and Wang Lee-Hom. For the role of Wong Chia Chi, she has won in category Best New Performer of Golden Horse award. She has also been nominated for the Independent Spirit Award.

Tang Wei profile

Chinese name 湯唯 (Traditional)
Chinese name 汤唯 (Simplified)
Born October 7, 1979 (1979-10-07) (age 29)
Yueqing, Zhejiang, China

On 5 October 2007, Tang revealed that her Western name is Rebecca in an interview on KTSF television channel 26 in San Francisco. Her mother is an actress and her father is a painte. (more…)

Eva Huang Sheng Yi is a Chinese actress, born and raised in Shanghai, China on February 11, 1983. Her father lived and studied in the USA in the early 1990s and her mother works for a well known and famous newspaper office as an editor in Shanghai. In 2001, she graduated from Beijing film academy and is sometimes credited in her films as Eva Huang or Eva Wong. Huang is best known for her role as Fong, the lollipop girl in Kung Fu Hustle.

Kung Fu Hustle

Huang Shengyi shot to fame after starring in the comedic martial arts film titled Kung Fu Hustle, directed by and also starring acclaimed Chinese film star Stephen Chow. Her role in the film was the character by the name of Fong, an ice-cream girl who was a humble, polite and most notably sweet girl who was mute, unable to speak. She plays the role of the romance in the movie of Chow’s character Sing, the wanna-be gangster out on his luck. (more…)

Crystal Liu Yifei (born 25 August 1987 in Wuhan, China) is a Chinese actress and singer. Although she is often credited as Liu Yi Fei (Traditional Chinese: 劉亦菲; Simplified Chinese: 刘亦菲), her legal name is Liu Xi Mei Zi (Traditional Chinese: 劉茜美子; Simplified Chinese: 刘茜美子: 茜 Xi is from German movie “Sissi” (Chinese translation 茜茜公主—hence the pronunciation of xi not qian; her mother calls her Xixi). At the age of 15, Liu Yifei’s role as “Wang Yuyan” in the television serial, Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils propelled her to fame in China.

Biography
Born at Tongji hospital in Wuhan, China on August 25, 1987, Liu’s birthname was An Feng (Traditional Chinese: 安風; Simplified Chinese: 安风). Her father was a university professor while her mother was a dancer and a stage performer. They divorced when she was 7 years old. After her parents’ divorce, Liu lived with her mother, Liu Xiao Li (Traditional Chinese: 劉曉莉; Simplified Chinese: 刘晓莉) and her name was changed to Liu Xi Mei Zi. She began modelling at the age of 8 and was trained in singing, dancing and the piano. Moving to the United States in 1998 with her mother, Liu lived there for four years. She returned to China in June 2002 to pursue an acting career and adopted her stage name Liu Yi Fei. In September 2002, she was accepted into the Performance Institute of Beijing Film Academy at the age of 15, She graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in July 2006.
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