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Brigitte Lin (November 3, 1954 -), Taiwanese actress and writer. In 1973, when she was only 19 years old, she made her official debut in Qiong Yao's film "Outside the Window". She was one of Taiwan's Qiong Yao-style romance film superstars in the late 1970s. She was known as the "Two Qin and Two Lins" together with Qin Xianglin, Qin Han, and Lin Fengjiao. In the mid-to-late 1980s, she gradually shifted her focus to the Hong Kong film industry. In the 1990s, she successfully transformed into costumed martial arts movies. The Invincible East is her most representative movie role. Brigitte Lin has been in the film industry for more than 20 years. She retired from the film industry after getting married in 1994. Before her retirement, she had appeared in more than 100 films, half of which were literary and romantic films. In 1976, she won the Best Actress at the 22nd Asian Film Festival for her role as Yang Huimin in the patriotic and anti-Japanese film "Eight Hundred Heroes". In 1990, she won the Best Actress at the 27th Golden Horse Awards for her role as the female writer Shen Shaohua in "Red Dust". In 2023, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 60th Golden Horse Awards.

Category
Film & TV
Nationality
Republic of China
Born
1954-11-03
Wikidata
Q256942
Occupations movie actortelevision actor
Aliases Brigitte LinBrigitte Lin Ching-hsiaLin Ching-HsiaLin QingxiaLin QingxiaBrigitte Lin

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