Bai Ling
She may not have her butt-length hair any more but she's still to die for!
Bai Ling (October 10, 1970) was recently seen in Wild Wild West (1999) and
Anna and the King (1999). What can I say more about her? She was born near the
end of the Cultural Revolution in China
when her parents were treated cruelly due to the fact that they taught. Her father was a
music teacher and her mother was a stage actor and dancer. Soon after her birth, Bai Ling
moved to Szechwan, China to live with her grandmother. She became a "soldier" in the Chinese
army in Tibet at the age of 14. Her main activity there was to entertain with musical theater.
She was considered a movie star in mainland China after making seven feature films and performing
in many plays. Bai Ling - which means 'White Spirit' in English - describes herself as having
been a very shy child who found that she best expressed herself through acting and performing.
Bai Ling ended up in NY where she took classes at The Lee Strasberg Institute (1991) and New
York University (1991). It was supposedly a temporary move, but she was issued a special visa
to stay due to her involvement in the pro-democracy movement in Tiananmen Square, Beijing in
1989.
Besides Wild Wild West (1999) and Anna and the King (1999), she played in the following
movies: Somewhere in the City (1998), Row Your Boat (1998), Red Corner (1997),
Nixon (1995), Dead Weekend (1995), Dead Funny (1994), and The Crow (1994).
Selected Links:
The Internet Movie Database
Bai Ling Fansite
The Bai Ling Website
Bomis: Ling Bai Ring
Canoe
Interview with Asian Connections
