Born in Taiwan, Shu Qi's acting career began in Hong Kong after a meeting with action film director Andrew Lau, who cast her as the lead in five movies, beginning with Storm Riders in 1998.
In 2000, she appeared in Vivian Chang's Hidden Whisper, but it was her devastating performance the following year in Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Millennium Mambo that revealed the true depth of her talent. She has pursued an eclectic path, ranging from action movies like The Transporter (2002) to the powerful drama Three Times (2005), which reunited her with Hou Hsiao-Hsien, and for which she was awarded the Best Actress Prize at the Golden Horse Film Festival in Taiwan.
Shu Qi was a jury member at the Berlin Film Festival in 2008 and the Cannes Film Festival in 2009. Also in 2009, she appeared in the film New York, I Love You in a cast that included such stars as Natalie Portman, Orlando Bloom and Bradley Cooper.
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