Friday, April 24, 2009

Shu Qi Profile

Name: Shu Qi
Birth name: Shu Qi
Date of birth: April 16, 1976
Birthplace: Taipei, Taiwan

Shu Qi was born on April 16, 1976. She is the stage name of a Taiwanese actress born Lin Li-Hui. Her stage name is occasionally romanized as Hsu Chi or Shu Kei. Her name is sometimes seen in the Western order as Qi Shu. 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