Jacklyn Wu Chien-Lien

Born: 1968-07-03, Taipei, Taiwan

Biography

Jacklyn Wu Chien-Lien, 吳倩蓮, sometimes also spelt Jacqueline Wu Chien-Lien (born July 3, 1968), is a Taiwanese actress and singer. She is best remembered by Western audiences for her role in Ang Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), where she played the second of three sisters. She started her acting career when Johnnie To cast her opposite Andy Lau in A Moment of Romance (1990). Her most acclaimed role to date is in Ann Hui's Eighteen Springs (1997), for which she received a Hong Kong Film Award Best Actress nomination and won the Hong Kong Film Critics Society Best Actress Award. Wu has also acted in TV serials in Taiwan, China and Singapore. Since the turn of the millennium her output has dwindled. Her last film appearance was in 2004's Hong Kong movie Jiang Hu.

Filmography

• 飲食男女 (1994)
• 天若有情 (1990)
• 阮玲玉 (2005)
• 賭神2 (1994)
• 楚汉风云 (2005)
• 北魏冯太后 (2006)
• 97家有囍事 (1997)
• 赤脚小子 (1993)
• 和平飯店 (1995)
• 至尊無上II：永霸天下 (1991)
• 大冒險家 (1995)
• 花旗少林 (1994)
• 江湖 (2004)
• 都市情緣 (1994)
• 天若有情III烽火佳人 (1996)
• 天若有情II：天長地久 (1993)
• 呆佬拜壽 (1995)
• 没完没了 (1999)
• 半生緣 (1997)
• 攝氏32度 (1996)
• 一千零一夜之夢中人 (1995)
• 奪舍 (1997)
• 夜半歌聲 (1995)
• 大汉风1：群雄并起 (2005)
• 大汉风5：破釜沉舟 (2005)
• 大汉风9：谋士范增 (2005)
• 沙灘仔與周師奶 (1991)
• 恐怖雞 (1997)
• 大汉风15：韩信点兵 (2004)
• 等着你回来 (1994)