| Biography | Nama : Bai Ling
Birth Name : Bai Ling
Birth Date : 10/10/1970
Birth Place : Chengdu, China
Height : 5' 3"
Sex : F
Nationality : American
Occupation : Actress
Father : Bai Yuxiang
Mother : Chen Binbin
Relation : Nick Carter (singer, 2005), Chris Isaak (singer), Scott DeGirolamo (businessman, scientist)
Claim Fame : As Shen Yuelin in "Red Corner" (1997)
Bai Ling (traditional Chinese: ?? ,simplified Chinese: ??,Hanyu Pinyin: B?i L?ng) (b. October 10, 1970) is a Chinese actress. "Bai Ling" in Chinese means "White Spirit/Light".
Her father was a music teacher, and her mother was a stage actor and dancer. She describes herself as having been a very shy child who found that she best expressed herself through acting and performing. She was born near the end of the Cultural Revolution when her parents were treated cruelly due to the fact that they taught. Soon after her birth, she moved to Sichuan, live with her grandmother. She became a "soldier" in the People's Liberation 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.
She came to the US in 1991 in NY while going to NYU's film department as a visiting scholar. Since that, she starred many movies. Ling Bai has recently starred in the movies Star Wars: Episode III (2005) playing the role of Senator, and World of Tomorrow, The (2004) as Mysterious Woman. Ling Bai has also featured in many movies such as Beautiful Country (2003), My Baby's Mama (2003), and Paris (2003). Some of Ling Bai's early movie break throughs were in Shan cun feng yue (1987), Hu guang (1988) as Jing Huan, Crow, The (1994) as Myca, and Dead Funny(1994) as Norriko.
She was named one of People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" in 1998. According to Bai Ling, acting is a great job. In acting, you can defy how society tells you to behave and allow other parts within you to be expressed. Bai Ling encourages all you Asian actors out there to try out for roles, and not necessarily roles written for Asian actors, but roles for anyone
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