Xu Jinglei

Xu Jinglei (born April 16, 1974) is a Chinese actress and film director. She graduated from Beijing Film Academy in 1997.^[1] She has also spanned an acting career with directing since 2003.

Although not well known outside of China, Xu is popular domestically: in mid-2006, her Chinese-language blog had the most incoming links of any blog in any language on the Internet, according to Technorati.^[2][3][4] She is considered one of the "Four Dan Actresses" of China.^[5]

She was the editor of monthly Chinese e-zine Kaila (开啦) at Kaila.com.cn, which was started on April 16, 2007.^[6] The e-zine ceased publication at the end of 2011.

Awards

• 2003 – Best Actress (for Spring Subway) at the 26th annual Hundred Flowers Film Awards^[7]
• 2003 – Best Actress (for Far From Home and I Love You) at the 9th annual Huabiao Film Awards^[8]
• 2003 – Best Supporting Actress (for Far From Home) and Best New Female Director (for My Father and I) at the 23rd annual Chinese Golden Rooster Awards^[9]
• 2004 – Best New Director and Best Actress (both for My Father and I) at the 4th annual Chinese Film Media Awards^[10]
• 2004 – Silver Shell for Best Director for A Letter from an Unknown Woman at the 52nd annual Donostia-San Sebastián International Film Festival^[11]

Filmography

As a writer

• My Father and I (2003)
• Letter from an Unknown Woman (2004)
• Dreams May Come (2006)
• Go Lala Go! (2010)

As a director

• My Father and I (2003)
• Letter from an Unknown Woman (2004)
• Dreams May Come (2006)
• Go Lala Go! (2010)
• Dear Enemy (2011)
• Somewhere Only We Know (2015)

As an actress

• Spicy Love Soup (1997)
• The Storm Riders (1998)
• Dazzling (2002)
• Spring Subway (2002)
• Far From Home (2002)
• I Love You (2002)
• Heroic Duo (2003)
• My Father and I (2003)
• Brothers (2004)
• Last Love, First Love (2004)
• Letter from an Unknown Woman (2004)
• Dreams May Come (2006)
• Confession of Pain (2006)
• The Warlords (2007)
• Shinjuku Incident (2009)
• Go Lala Go! (2010)
• Eternal Moment (2011)
• Dear Enemy (2011)
• Better and Better (2013)
• One Step Away (2014)
• Somewhere Only We Know (2015)
• Fading Wave (2015)

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Notes

External links

• Xu Jinglei at the Internet Movie Database

Chinese

• Xu Jinglei's blog
• Kaila, a web-zine edited by Xu Jinglei

English

• Translation of Xu Jinglei's blog