Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
July 3, 1968
Place of Birth:
Taipei, Taiwan
Jacklyn Wu Chien-Lien, 吳倩蓮, sometimes also spelt Jacqueline Wu Chien-Lien (born July 3, 1968), is a Taiwanese actress and singer. She is best remembered by Western audiences for her role in Ang Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), where she played the second of three sisters. She started her acting career when Johnnie To cast her opposite Andy Lau in A Moment of Romance (1990).
Her most acclaimed role to date is in Ann Hui's Eighteen Springs (1997), for which she received a Hong Kong Film Award Best Actress nomination and won the Hong Kong Film Critics Society Best Actress Award.
Wu has also acted in TV serials in Taiwan, China and Singapore. Since the turn of the millennium her output has dwindled. Her last film appearance was in 2004's Hong Kong movie Jiang Hu.
Year | TV Show | Role |
---|---|---|
2013 | Romantic Heroes of the Tang Dynasty | Ye Tian Lian/Shu Qing |
2012 | 缘海情天 | 洪威 |
2006 | Empress Feng of the Northern Wei Dynasty | Empress Dowager Feng |
2005 | Center Stage: Ruan Ling Yu | 阮玲玉 |
2005 | The Story of Han Dynasty | Lü Zhi |
2004 | Autumn Water | |
2001 | Zen Master | |
1999 | 情牵日月星 | 桑若岚 |
1998 | The Return of the Condor Heroes | Hsiao Lung Nu |
1997 | Beijing Hong Kong Love Connection | Fang Ming |
1992 | The Modern Love Story |