Gong Li was born in Shenyang, Liaoning, China, the fifth child in her family.

Despite her high profile, Gong Li had four years put off working on Hollywood films, due to both her lack of confidence speaking English and her discontent with the types of roles having been offered to her[9]. Her first major English-language role came in 2005 when she starred as the beautiful but vindictive Hatsumomo in Memoirs of a Geisha. Her performance met generally rave reviews.

Her other English-language roles to date have been in Miami Vice in 2006 and Hannibal Rising in 2007. In all three films, she learned her English lines phonetically.

Generally considered the epitome of Chinese beauty, she is doing more Hollywood roles and becoming more confident with her English speaking skills.

Gong created a major stir at Peking University in 2000 when the univesity accepted her to take an undergraduate degree course in social studies. Students of the institution felt her celebrity allowed her to "jump the queue" when other prospective students are held to much more competitive standards. In her defence, Gong said she simply wanted to "pursue the spirit of learning."

The story of a most dysfunctional royal family of the Teng Dynasty with Chow Yun-Fat playing the Emperor and Gong Li as his Empress.

Chinese actress Gong Li.

Gong Li (巩俐) plays the Empress. Of course that's an unhappy character. I have never seen any happy character Gong Li ever played.

Desirous of abetting his career in villainy, and hoping to have material for our blog, we counseled him to emulate the great Gong Li.

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