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Xu Jinglei
徐静蕾

Born April 16 1974 (age 33)
Beijing, China
Years active 1997 - present


Xu Jinglei (Chinese: 徐静蕾; Pinyin: xú jìnglěi) or Jane Xu; born 16 April 1974 is a famous actress, singer and director in Mainland China. Born in Beijing, Xu was admitted to the Performance Institute of Beijing Film Academy in 1993. She graduated from there in 1997.

In mid 2006, her blog had the most incoming links of any on the Internet, according to Technorati.[1] Xu also starred in Leon Lai's film "heroic Duo.

Biography

Early life

Xu Jinglei was born at April 16, 1974 at the capital of China - Beijing, she had a normal childhood as many others. She said that her early life passed smoothly, but she always couldn't do the things she wanted do and she had to do what she didn't like. Her father forced her to practice the Chinese calligraphy which she hated to do when she was a little girl, but what she liked was painting, she practiced a lot of painting and went to take the exam to study in an art university. however, she didn't pass it, then she tried to applied the faculty of stage art in Central Academy of Drama and she failed again. When she left the academy, a director saw her and thought that she was a student of the faculty of acting. Then she tried to apply the faculty of acting in Beijing Film Academy and easily got proven. Thus, she began her life as an actress, but she was always shy in all her academy life. In her first movie, she was so nervous that she couldn't even speak in front of the camera, she passed a long time like that till she worked in more movies.

Career

Xu Jinglei began her career with a lot of pure characters from the year 1996, she kept her way of acting for many years, and her image in the movie fans' minds is always the cute girl next door. In 2002, she directed her first movie My Father and I and make herself an excellent new face among the directors. She kept on acting and directing, and her movie A Letter from an Unknown Woman won the Best Director of the 52th San Sebastian International Film Festival in the year 2004.

Personal life

Xu Jinglei has a really clean personal life. She has worked together with many famous actors, but there wasn't any personal scandal about her and some actors. In the recent years, she began to blog on the famous Chinese website sina.com and write a lot of small stuffs about her personal life, and she got more popular through her blog, which is actually the most popular blog in the world.[citation needed]

Filmography

As director
Dreams May Come (2006)
A Letter from an Unknown Woman (2004)
My Father and I (2003)

As actress
The Warlords (2007)
Confession of Pain (2006)
Dreams May Come (2006)
A Letter from an Unknown Woman (2004)
Last Love, First Love (2004)
Brothers (2004)
I Love You (2003)
My Father and I (2003)
Spring Subway (2002)
Dazzling (2002)
The Storm Riders (1998)
Spicy Love Soup (1997)

Awards and nominations (until 2004)
1998 Winner of the third award of "the most popular TV star to the college student"
1998 One of the top 10 beauties of《New Weekly》
1999 Winner of the 7th GOLDEN PHOENIX AWARDS
1999 Winner of《Popular TV》's "Star of the Youth"
2000 The image representative of elong-CCTV's Olympics website
2001 The honored healthy representative of Women Activities Club of China
2001 Most Popular Actress to the college students in the first TV Festival of College Students
2002 Most Popular Actress of the 9th Beijing University Students' Film Festival
2002 The image representative of the first Beijing Girl University Students Festival
2002 Most Popular Pctress of Chinese Public Media Awards
2002 Best New Artist of the 9th Chinese Film Huabiao Awards
2003 Best Actress of the 26th Popular Cinema "A Hundred Flowers Awards"
2003 Best Supporting Actress and the Best Direction Maiden Work of the 23th Chinese Film Golden Rooster Awards
2004 Best Screenwriter, Best New Director, and Most Popular Actress of China Mainland
2004 Best Director of the 52th San Sebastian International Film Festival[2]

Notes and references
^ Fickling, David, Internet killed the TV star, The Guardian NewsBlog, 15 August 2006
^ Xu Jinglei's awards. xujinglei.org.

External links
(Chinese) Xu Jinglei blog on sina.com
(English) Translation of Xu Jinglei's blog on blogspot.com
(English) Xu Jinglei profile and biography
(Chinese) a website created by Xu Jinglei's fans