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| Birth Name(s) : Ling Bai |
Date of Birth: October 10, 1970 |
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Dating
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Chris Isaak |
| Profession:
Actor |
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Full Ling Bai Biography
Ling Bai joined the People's Liberation Army in China at 14 years of age as an entertainer. She later moved to Beijing and easily gained stardom through seven feature films. It was then that Ling decided she needed to move to North America.
"Red Corner" (1997) was her breakthrough film with Richard Gere. Other feature films include "Wild Wild West" (1999) and "Anna and the King" (1999). |
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Additional Ling Bai Biography
Bai Ling (traditional Chinese: 白靈; simplified Chinese: 白灵; pinyin: Bái Líng) (born October 10, 1961) is a Chinese/American actress.
Bai has described herself as a very shy child who found that she best expressed herself through acting and performing. She has since said that acting allows one to ignore how society tells one to behave and allows other parts within oneself to be expressed. During the Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1976), she learned how to perform by participating in Eight model plays shows in her elementary school. After her graduation of middle school, she was sent to do labor work at Shuangliu (双流), a suburb county of Chengdu, where the Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport is located.
Before long, she managed to pass the People's Liberation Army's exams, and became an "artist soldier" at Linzhi, Tibet. Her main activity there was to entertain with musical theater. She also served as a nurse for a while in the army. Three years later, she was discharged from the army, and joined People's Art Theater of Chengdu, and became a professional actress. Her performance in a stage play Yueqin and Little Tiger as a young man drew attention of movie director Teng Wenji (滕文骥), and gained her her first movie role in On The Beach （1985), as a village girl who becomes a factory worker and fights against her father's will for her to marry her cousin.
Bai had previously appeared in several Chinese movies when she was in China. In 1984, Bai appeared as a fishing village girl in the movie On the Beach (海滩). Later she filmed several other movies, including Suspended Sentence (缓期执行), Yueyue (月月), Tears in Suzhou (泪'姑苏) without much attention. Her role as a girl with psychological disorder who had affair with her doctor gained her fame, in the movie Arc Light (弧光) directed by director Zhang Junzhao (张军'). She attended Moscow Movie Festival in 1989 due to this role. When she was in China, her photographs had been used in magazines and calendars frequently, mostly with her whole shoulder and upper breasts exposed, which was not common in China at that time. Since coming to the United States in 1991, she has appeared in a number of American movies.
She began in the cult movie The Crow (1994), playing the half-sister/lover of the main villain, Top Dollar. Hu guang was her most celebrated role in the Chinese film industry, and Red Corner (1997) would be considered her break-out role in English film. She was named one of People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" in 1998. She appeared in Chris Isaak's music video "Please" in 1998. She shaved off her hair, which had exceeded a length of 36 in. (91.44 cm.) for her role in Anna and the King, and is widely known in Thailand as "Tubtim", her character's name from the film, even though the movie is officially banned because of its depiction of the King of Siam. She filmed scenes for Star Wars: Episode III (2005) as Senator Bana Breemu, but her role was cut during editing. She claimed that this was because of her posing nude for the June 2005 issue of Playboy magazine, whose appearance on newsstands coincided with the movie's May 2005 release, but director George Lucas denied this, stating that the cut had been made more than a year earlier. Her scenes were included in the "deleted scenes" feature of the DVD release.
Later in 2005 Bai was a castmate of the VH1 program called But Can They Sing?. The show gave several non-singer celebrities an attempt at singing on every episode and then allowed the audience and home viewers to vote off one contestant each week. Bai Ling was most famous for her risqué and raunchy get-ups and her performances of Madonna's "Like a Virgin" and The Ramones' "I Wanna Be Sedated". Bai was eliminated just before the grand finale but was invited back on the final week for a special performance of Divinyls' I Touch Myself.
She has most recently appeared in the show Lost as part of Jack's flashbacks. Her character is Achara, who many believe to be associated with the Dharma Initiative. She has predictive powers, and is the artist of Jack's tattoo reading "He walks amongst us, but he is not one of us." Achara attests to predicting Jack's leadership role on the island. She is expected to be on for three episodes.
Bai once claimed publicly that she was engaged to Nick Carter, but Carter immediately denied it and the two have never married.. She has further claimed that she was "cut out" of Star Wars due to her appearance in Playboy magazine while also insinuating a large role for her character; George Lucas denied this, citing the facts that the edit had been done months before the Playboy appearance was known and stating that Bai's role was only a few lines of unimportant dialogue.
On Angelina Jolie: "We shared a special attraction. I felt this energy between us, when we look at each other there is an energy, an attraction. Her eyes transfer a sexual energy to me that makes her irresistible. We could have hooked up, but it just wasn't the right time or place. But she told me, 'My heart's open to you.' She is like me. She is totally open sexually. I've always thought Brad Pitt was the sexiest man on the planet. So now that Brad and Angelina are together, now maybe I could experience both at the same time!" |
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