Gong Li Biography

Gong Li — also credited as Li Gong — was still in acting school when she got the lead role in the 1988 film Red Sorghum. She was an international hit and starred in many Chinese films throughout the 1990s, including Farewell My Concubine (1993).

She made several films with director Yimou Zhang, with whom she had a personal relationship until 1995, including Red Sorghum, Ju Dou (1990), Raise the Red Lantern (1991), The Story of Qiu Ju (1992), To Live (1994) and Coming Home (2014).  She has also appeared in the English language features Memoirs of a Geisha (2005, starring Michelle Yeoh), Miami Vice (2006, with Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx) and Shanghai (2010, starring John Cusack).