Maggie q gong li biography
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One of the screen's all time great beauties turns 50 today and she's still completely förtrollande. Gong Li holds the fascinating distinction of being the only Chinese cinema star that Oscar has ever been consistently interested in. Despite Oscar's historic (and frankly bizarre) resistance to Asian cinema, even in the utländsk film categories, an incredible six films from her resume have been nominated for Oscars.
Alas she has not been nominated herself, though she was "in the conversation" as it were on two separate occassions. A Gong Li beauty break and those six of her most famous films after the jump...
at the Met Gala earlier this year
At the premiere of her most recent film Coming Home (2014)
If you've only ever seen Gong Li in her two back-to-back high profile Hollywood gigs in the mid-Aughts (i.e. Memoirs of a Geisha and Miami Vice) you're in for such a treat should you venture further back into the filmography. She's one of the great film stars and here
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'The Protégé' Star Maggie Q On Kicking Michael Keaton's Ass And Playing A Vietnamese Action Hero [Interview]
Maggie Q started her career as a protégé of sorts: while modeling in Hong Kong, she was handpicked by Jackie Chan as the next martial arts action star. She wowed the international superstar in Hong Kong action films like Gen-Y Cops, landing her roles in Rush Hour 2 and Mission: Impossible III. But apart from a leading role in the CW TV series Nikita, Maggie Q never got the shine that Chan may have thought she deserved.
It's only in 2021, more than two decades after she began her acting career, that Maggie Q has gotten her starring action movie vehicle. But taking on the lead role in The Protégé, directed by Martin Campbell and co-starring Samuel L. Jackson and Michael Keaton, was not an immediate "yes" for Q.
"It was daunting because I was like, 'Am I young enough to do this?'" Q said.
Until recently, action movies had been exclusive to the young, AKA th
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Lisa Funnell.Warrior Women: Gender, Race, and the Transnational Chinese Action Star. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2014. 294 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-5249-4; $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4384-5248-7.
Reviewed by Amy Lee
Published on H-Asia (April, 2015)
Commissioned by Douglas Slaymaker (University of Kentucky)
Chinese Warrior Women on the World Screen
Ang Lee's 2000 blockbuster hit Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, a centerpiece of Lisa Funnell's meticulously researched study on Chinese female action stars, Warrior Women: Gender, Race, and the Transnational Action Star, exemplified what would become a new era of transnational and transpacific cinematic production. In this context, Hollywood continues to dominate the new global cinema but Hong Kong, through its formative role in the development of action cinema, plays no small part. Marked by what Stephen Teo has identified as a “globalizing postmodern” aesthetic, in which the cultural a