Actor

Jacklyn Wu Chien-Lien

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Movies: 40Series: 11

TMDB ID: 65353

IMDb ID: nm0943072

Known for: Acting

Born: July 3, 1968

Age: 57

Place of birth: Taipei, Taiwan

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1990 - 2013

Years active: 24

Average TMDB rating: 6.49

Wikidata: Q701962

Also known as

Ng Sin-Lin • Wu Chien-Lien • Jacklyn Wu • 오천련 • Jacklyn Ng Sin-Lin • 吳倩蓮 • 吴倩莲 • Jacklyn Wu Chien-Lien

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Biography

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.