- This is a Chinese name; the family name is Shu.
| Shū Qí 舒淇 |
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|---|---|
| Birth name | 林立慧 Lín Lì-Huì |
| Born | April 16 1976 Taipei, Taiwan |
| Years active | 1996–present |
| Official site | http://www.shu-qi.com/ |
Shu Qi (Chinese: 舒淇; pinyin: Shū Qí; Wade-Giles: Shu Ch'i) (born April 16, 1976) is the stage name of a Taiwanese actress born Lin Li-Hui (林立慧). Her stage name is occasionally romanized as Hsu Chi or Shu Kei (Cantonese). Her name is sometimes seen in the Western order as Qi Shu.
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Biography
Early career
Born to a financially challenged family in Taiwan, the young Shu Qi moved to Hong Kong at the age of 17 where she became a model for adult magazines and softcore movie shorts. She eventually came under the management of Hong Kong producer Manfred Wong, who signed her on to several softcore porn Hong Kong films such as Sex & Zen II.
Career
She starred in Derek Yee's 1996 film, Viva Erotica, which was about the erotic film industry in Hong Kong, opposite the late Leslie Cheung and Karen Morris. At the Hong Kong Film Awards, she received the Best Supporting Actress award for the film. Since then, she has appeared in mainstream Hong Kong films such as Gorgeous (1998) opposite Jackie Chan, Stanley Kwan's The Island Tales (1999) and Hou Hsiao-Hsien's critically acclaimed Millennium Mambo (2000). In 1999, Ang Lee approached Shu for the role of Jen in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Six weeks into filming, her manager, Manfred Wong, not foreseeing the film's massive international success, pulled her out to do a soft drink commercial in Japan, and the part went instead to Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi. In 2002, she appeared in the Hollywood film The Transporter and the Asian action flick So Close. In 2004, she had a role in the Hong Kong horror film The Eye 2. In 2005 she won the Best Actress Award at the 2005 Golden Horse Awards for her three roles in Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Three Times.
Partial filmography
- The Monster (2007)
- Blood Brothers (2007)
- My Wife is a Gangster 3 (2006)
- Confession of Pain (2006)
- Forest of Death (2006)
- Home Sweet Home (2005)
- Three Times (2005)
- Seoul Raiders (2005)
- The Foliage (2004)
- The Eye 2 (2004)
- Looking for Mr. Perfect (2003)
- Haunted Office (2002)
- The Transporter (2002)
- Just One Look (2002) (cameo)
- So Close (2002)
- Women From Mars (2002)
- The Wesley's Mysterious File (2002)
- Beijing Rocks (2001)
- Love Me, Love My Money (2001)
- Visible Secret (2001)
- Millennium Mambo (2001)
- Martial Angels (2001)
- For Bad Boys Only (2000)
- My Name Is Nobody (2000)
- Dragon Heat (2000)
- Skyline Cruisers (2000)
- Flyin' Dance (2000)
- Born to Be King (2000)
- Hidden Whisper (2000)
- My Loving Trouble 7 (2000)
- Metade Fumaca (1999)
- When I Look Upon the Stars (1999)
- The Island Tales (1999)
- Iron Sister (1999)
- A Man Called Hero (1999)
- Gorgeous (1999)
- Extreme Crisis (1998)
- Another Meltdown (1998)
- Portland Street Blues (1998)
- Young & Dangerous: The Prequel (1998)
- City of Glass (1998)
- Bishonen (1998)
- Love Generation Hong Kong (1998)
- The Storm Riders (1998)
- Young and Dangerous 5 (1998)
- The Lucky Guy (1998)
- L-O-V-E... Love (1997)
- My Dad Is a Jerk (1997)
- Love Is Not a Game, But a Joke (1997)
- Those Were the Days (1997)
- (1997)
- The Fruit is Swelling (1997) (cameo)
- A Queer Story (1996)
- Till Death Do Us Laugh (1996)
- Street Angels (1996)
- Queer Story (1996)
- Growing Up (1996)
- Viva Erotica (1996)
- Sex & Zen II (1996)
References
- http://www.shuqi.org/profile/biography.shtml
- http://www.shuqiworld.com/about-shu-qi.php
- http://www.moono.com/html/shu-qi/shu-qi-biography.cfm
- http://www.sensasian.com/isroot/sensasian/artists/shu_qi.htm
- http://www.askmen.com/women/actress_300/310_shu_qi.html
- http://global.yesasia.com/en/Emagazine/ArticlePage.aspx/articleId-123/
- http://skywoland.narod.ru/HsuChi/Hsu.htm
Footnotes
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2007/12/21/for-the-record-89520-20261711/
