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Gong Li is a Chinese-born Singaporean film actress. Gong first came into international prominence through close collaboration with Chinese director Zhang Yimou and is credited with helping bring Chinese cinema to Europe and the United States. She has twice been awarded the Golden Rooster and the Hundred Flowers Awards as well as the Berlinale Camera, Cannes Festival Trophy, National Board of Review, New York Film Critics Circle Award, and Volpi Cup. She married Singaporean businessman Ooi Hoe Soeng in 1996, and became a Singaporean citizen in 2008.
Gong Li is a highly acclaimed Chinese-born Singaporean actress who rose to global prominence as the muse of director Zhang Yimou, helping bring Chinese cinema to international audiences.
She is celebrated for her performances in classic films like Raise the Red Lantern, Farewell My Concubine, To Live, and her Hollywood roles in Memoirs of a Geisha and Miami Vice.
She specializes in nuanced, emotionally charged dramas and visually striking period epics, often exploring themes of resilience, historical change, and feminine struggle.
Her career launched while she was a student at the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing, when she was cast as the lead in Zhang Yimou's debut film, Red Sorghum (1987).