Li Bingbing

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Li Bingbing, born in Wuchang City, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, China on February 27, 1973, graduated from the undergraduate class of performance Department of Shanghai Academy of drama. She is a Chinese film actress and singer.

In 2000, she was known by the audience for her starring in the TV series "young Bao Qingtian" and starring in the TV series "smart little don't understand". She won the best female host award of the 13th Singapore International Film Festival for her film "going home for the new year". In 2005, she won the best actress nomination of the 25th Golden Rooster Award for Chinese film for her film "waiting alone"; in the same year, she starred in the TV series "eight heroes". In 2006, she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in the 28th popular film Hundred Flowers Award for her film "no thieves in the world". In 2007, she won the outstanding actress award of the 12th China Film Huabiao Award for her film "yunshuiyao" and the best actress award of the 29th popular film hundred flowers award the next year. In the same year, she became the Asia Pacific spokesperson of Montblanc brand jewelry, so she became the first Chinese actress to speak for international luxury goods. In 2009, she won the best actress award of the 46th Taiwan Golden Horse Film Award for her film "the wind"; in the same year, she set up a personal public welfare brand L.O.V.E and initiated and participated in many environmental protection activities. Since 2010, he has become the first Chinese global goodwill ambassador of the United Nations Environment Programme, the global ambassador of the World Wide Fund for nature (WWF), and the Asia Pacific Ambassador of the international climate organization "million forests". In 2012, he served as a judge of Shanghai International Film Festival and signed up with UTA, an American agency, at the end of the year. In early 2013, he acted as the global spokesperson of Gucci, an international luxury brand. This is the first time that a Chinese actor has acted as the spokesperson of an international luxury brand. He starred in biochemical crisis 5 and transformers 4, and served as the judge of the 50th Golden Horse Award.

On February 19, 2015, the movie "Zhong Kui subdues the devil: Snow Demon" was released, and he was also the tutor of Zhejiang satellite TV variety reality show "I see you have a play". In 2018, the box office of the Hollywood movie "megatooth shark" topped one billion.

Early experience

In the spring of 1973, Li Bingbing was born in Wuchang County, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province. As the eldest daughter of an ordinary worker's family in an isolated small county, she has not been the apple of her parents' eyes since childhood. Although her parents like literature and art, her mother is good at singing and dancing, her father can play erhu, and Li Bingbing is deeply influenced, she has never been recognized by her family because of her poor study in primary school (Wuchang No.1 Primary School in Harbin). Her parents are especially partial to her sister Li Xue, who has good grades. Her teachers don't like her students who are partial to science, especially her father, who is a traditional Chinese tutor. He only criticizes her severely and refuses to encourage her. All these lead to Li Bingbing's lack of self-confidence in her childhood, her character becomes silent and introverted, and her inferiority complex makes her even walk with her head bent down.

In 1989, she graduated from junior high school (Wuchang No.3 middle school in Harbin). Her parents hoped that she would go to senior high school, and then go to university to get out of the closed county. But she thought it was out of reach. In order to work early and subsidize her family, she insisted on choosing and admitted to Jixi normal school. At the age of 16, she left home alone. At school, she was good at musical instruments (piano, accordion), singing and dancing, painting and acrobatics, and was praised by her teachers and classmates.

In 1992, Li Bingbing, a 19-year-old music teacher of Wuchang Experimental Primary School in Harbin, just graduated from technical secondary school (Jixi normal school in Heilongjiang, which is now merged into Heilongjiang Institute of Technology). She performed at the "Jixi Spring Festival Gala" and was discovered by Gao Qiang, an actress. She strongly suggested that she go to the film academy. Although Li Bingbing didn't want to be an actor, she made up her mind to become a college student for her parents' expectation. A few months before the examination, I tried my best to review the culture course of the college entrance examination, and finally got into Shanghai drama academy with a score of 30 points higher than the admission mark. When she received the admission notice at her own expense, her mother had a heart attack, and the operation cost alone was 30000 yuan. This makes the family with a monthly income of less than 300 destitute, and Li Bingbing wants to give up. Father anxious, said: "other children want to take the exam, but also failed, the family is to send you to university."

He was admitted to the University at the age of 20, and won the first prize of the National Prize for his sketches. She used all her spare time to make money to pay her mother's high medical expenses and debts, and became the pillar of the family. In addition to subsidizing her sister's tuition and living expenses, as soon as she has time, she takes the train to visit her sister with big and small bags.

Acting experience

She made her debut in 1994 and starred in 2000 in the 56th Venice International Film Festival. With this, she and Liu Lin shared the best actress award of the 13th Singapore International Film Festival. However, due to the domestic ban, "going home for the new year" did not attract attention.

In 2004, her sister Li Xue officially accepted Li Bingbing's job as an agent. In 2005, she was nominated for best actress in the 25th China Golden Rooster Film Award for her film "waiting alone"; in the same year, she took part in the film "there are no thieves in the world" and was shortlisted for supporting actress in the Hundred Flowers Award for her role as pornographic thief Xiao Ye. Since then, she has been shortlisted for best actress in the Golden Rooster Hundred Flowers Award for two consecutive years.

In 2005, he starred in the TV series eight heroes. Until director Yin Li invited her to star in the film "cloud water ballad", the film finally won the outstanding actress award of the 12th China Film Huabiao award, the best actress award of the 29th popular film Hundred Flowers Award, and played Ye Wanxin with Liu Xiaoqing and other leading roles in the TV drama "huiniang Wanxin".

In 2008, Li Bingbing, who plays the white haired witch in the king of Kung Fu, took part in all the plays in person for the effect of the role; in the same year, she starred in the love movie butterfly flying and played the paranoid lawyer Fu Enjia.

In 2009, she won the best actress award of the 46th Golden Horse Award for her performance in the wind, and then took part in many commercial films, such as the Empire of Di Renjie, the king of guns, and I'd like to Ido. In the same year, she established a personal public welfare brand "L.O.V.E", which advocates responsible life with the content of "caring for life and protecting the environment" In December, as a special host, he made a speech in English at the Copenhagen global climate conference.

In 2010, he set up his own studio and invested in the revolution of 1911 as one of the producers. In addition to acting as an agent for its domestic performing business, the studio also tries to diversify its operations such as film investment. Since then, Li Bingbing began to reduce production and keep improving the quality of his works. In the same year, Deng Wendi invited Li Bingbing to play the female No.1 in the Hollywood literary film "Snow Flower Secret Fan". At the film's premiere in New York, Paul Anderson, director of biochemical crisis 5, invited Li Bingbing to play the role of female No.2 ADA.

In 2011, Harper's bazaar, the world's fashion magazine, held an editorial conference in New York to select the world's best cover in 2010 for the 24th anniversary of the Chinese version of bazaar, which is the first time that the Chinese version of bazaar won the honor. "Li Bingbing's" flaming red lips "was also hung at the junction of West 57th Street and 8th Avenue in Manhattan, New York In the same year, he won the film star of the year award of the Asia Pacific Film Expo.

In 2012, she was invited to participate in the 84th Academy Awards for "snowflake and Secret Fan"; on February 10, the starring film "I would like to Ido" was released; in September of the same year, Li Bingbing became the first mainland female star to enter Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in Hong Kong, and also the first mainland female star to have wax statues in Shanghai and Hong Kong at the same time. Later, she was absent from "biochemical crisis 5" due to the Diaoyu Island incident At the Beijing premiere, Li Bingbing made clear her position that she would never go to Japan in the event of Diaoyu Island incident. In October of the same year, she signed a contract with UTA headquarters, a Hollywood agency, which acts as Li Bingbing's agent in the United States and overseas. Since then, Li Bingbing has been studying foreign languages in Los Angeles alone for half a year.

In January 2013, she became the first global spokesperson of international luxury brand Gucci in a century (in 2012, she was the spokesperson of Asian region). Her personal welfare brand L.O.V.E. cooperated with Gucci deeply and launched a special watch engraved with "gucciand Li Bing Bing for responsive life", making her the first Chinese star to engrave her name and environmental protection concept into luxury products, Hollywood magazine Variety held an award ceremony for Li Bingbing in Los Angeles and awarded her the honor of "Asian Star"; in August, she took part in Paramount's Hollywood film transformers 4: vanishing and rebirth, playing Su Yueming, the No.2 female scientist in charge of making transformers; in November, at the Sino US film summit held in Los Angeles, Li Bingbing was awarded "East West" award At the end of November, he was invited to Taiwan to be the judge of the 50th Taiwan Golden Horse Awards.

On June 27, 2014, "Transformers 4" was released, and the final box office of the film was 1.97 billion, breaking many box office records and becoming the box office champion of mainland films in that year.

On February 19, 2015, "Zhong Kui subdues the devil: The Snow Demon demon" was released, and Li Bingbing commented that the film won the most influential overseas actor award and best actress award in the third London International Chinese Film Festival; in the same year, he served as the tutor of Zhejiang satellite TV's reality show "I see you have a play"; at the end of the year, he starred in Oriental imperial mausoleum adventure film "Enigma nest", and served as the creative producer .

In May 2016, he was invited to attend the 69th Cannes Film Festival, and the red carpet design of its opening ceremony was approved

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