1994Winner
Best Performance
Eat Drink Man Woman
Jacklyn Wu Chien-Lien
Actor
Taipei, Taiwan
July 3, 1968
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.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1990Nominee
Best Performance
A Moment of Romance
1994Nominee
Best Performance
God of Gamblers' Return
Career Highlights
1997Highlight
Best Performance
All's Well, End's Well '97
2003Highlight
Best Performance
The Stories of Han Dynasty
Video
Eat Drink Man Woman
A Moment of Romance
God of Gamblers' Return