Wu Chien-Lien
Jacklyn Wu Chien-lien, sometimes also spelt Jacqueline Wu (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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 5.212 |
Birthday | 1968-07-03 |
Place of Birth | Taipei, Taiwan |
Also Known As | Ng Sin-Lin, Wu Chien-Lin, Jacklyn Wu Chien-lien, Wu Chien-Lien, Jacklyn Wu, 오천련, Jacklyn Ng Sin-Lin, |
1994
Eat Drink Man Woman
7.564/334
A retired and widowed Chinese master chef Chu and his family live in modern day Taipei, Taiwan. He lives with his three attractive daughters, all of w...
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Eat Drink Man Woman
1997
Eighteen Springs
7.3/16
In 1930s Shanghai, a young office girl falls in love with a factory worker in the same company.
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Eighteen Springs
2004
Triad Underworld
6.1/27
When Triad leader Hung considers leaving the world of the gangsters, a brutal war begins in the world of jiang-hu. Meanwhile, an internal conflict beg...
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Triad Underworld
2005
No Retreat
0/0
Po Fu Chen Zhou is a re-enactment of the most fascinating Chinese historical legend. Mainland famous actor Wu Jun stars as an ancient Conqueror while...
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No Retreat
1994
Treasure Hunt
5.6/17
A C.I.A. agent is assigned to go to Beijing to look for a hidden "treasure," which turns out to be a woman who has supernatural powers, and is the Nat...
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Treasure Hunt
1996
Beyond Hypothermia
6.4/29
A mysterious and highly successful hitwoman in Hong Kong is paid to assassinate top-level crime bosses. After beginning a relationship with a noodle v...
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Beyond Hypothermia
1990
A Moment of Romance
7.1/50
After a young Triad member takes an upper-class girl hostage during his escape from a jewelry heist, the two find themselves falling in love, in spite...
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A Moment of Romance
1994
God of Gamblers' Return
6.8/148
Chow returns to play Ko Chun, a skilled gambler who now lives in retirement in France. Wu Xingguo plays an evil gangster who forces Ko out of retireme...
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God of Gamblers' Return
2005
Banquet at Hongmen
0/0
A retelling of the fateful Feast at Swan Goose Gate, a historical event that involved two rebel leaders opposing the Qin dynasty.
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Banquet at Hongmen
2004
The Game of Killing
5/2
Killing games are quite popular among young people. Seven friends played this game in the bar. Unfortunately, the fake came true, and the game became...
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The Game of Killing
1999
Sorry Baby
6.5/27
The film tells of the attempts made by a Beijing van driver to obtain his wage arrears from travel agency boss even to the point of kidnapping the lat...
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Sorry Baby
1991
Casino Raiders II
6/12
Chicken Feet assists in running an honorable gambling den owned by the crippled Uncle Fan and his son Kit. Having previously tried to shut down the ga...
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Casino Raiders II
1993
Top Cool
0/0
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Top Cool
1996
A Moment of Romance III
5.1/10
Lau Tin-Wai is a fighter pilot in the Chinese airforce who is forced to ditch in a field; he is taken in by the remote community of farmers who nurse...
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A Moment of Romance III
1997
Intruder
6.1/14
A mainland Chinese girl is, with her husband, a wanted criminal and they have to get to Hong Kong in order to stay alive and be free.
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Intruder
1993
A Moment of Romance II
5.9/12
A street racer encounters a mainland courtesan under an extraordinary circumstances. A moment of Romance between them follows after.
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A Moment of Romance II
1994
In Between
4.7/3
Three flatmates share a luxury flat. A philandering hairdresser meets his match. A young stockbroker meets his boss's soon-to-be-ex-wife. A pregnant l...
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In Between
1995
Only Fools Fall in Love
6.6/8
Poor girl meets rich boy as they quarrel over a food seller's once a year delicacy. His brother pays her to marry the brother so he can stage an assa...
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Only Fools Fall in Love
1993
The Bare-Footed Kid
6.2/29
A poor barefoot young man from the country arrives in the city to start work with the friend of his dead father.
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The Bare-Footed Kid
1994
To Live and Die in Tsimshatsui
7/2
An undercover cop finds himself tortured by his life among the triads. He’s locked into his job with no way out, and he’s starting to find the triad g...
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To Live and Die in Tsimshatsui
1994
The Returning
5/1
Chung has a book project that will make his career in publishing: a collector's edition of the work of Siu Lau, a reclusive woman who died mysteriousl...
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The Returning
1992
Three Summers
6/1
Three Summers opens, a young man with a difficult past leaves his present home in the city of Hong Kong and hearkens back to the fishing village of hi...
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Three Summers
1994
Beginner's Luck
0/0
Lau and Chow are roommates and they both dream to strike it rich at the races. They invent a device that allows them to eavesdrop on jockeys in traini...
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Beginner's Luck
1994
Love and the City
7/2
A young mobster falls in love with the young head gang's girlfriend.
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Love and the City
1994
Oh! My Three Guys....
2.7/3
Young gay men in Hong Kong. Hoi, Fa, and Kau have been friends since Third Form. They're now young gay adults sharing an apartment. Fa, who writes fil...
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Oh! My Three Guys....
1995
Dream Lover
1/2
Popular Hong Kong actress Sharla Cheung actually produced two versions of this romantic seriocomedy -- starring in the second one, Romantic Dream -- a...
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Dream Lover
1995
The Phantom Lover
5.7/13
In 1936 China, a nearly bankrupt drama troupe starts performing in a burned-out theater where the great actor Song Danping was killed. One of the acto...
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The Phantom Lover
1997
All's Well, Ends Well '97
6.1/32
Old Mr. Lo has three sons and the youngest one Lo Kung is his favorite. However, Kung does nothing but fool around all day long. Old Mr. Lo is very an...
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All's Well, Ends Well '97
1995
The Adventurers
5.7/16
After the murder of his parents and sister at the hands of the villianous gun-running billionaire Ray Lui, crack fighter pilot Yan vows revenge.
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The Adventurers
1995
Peace Hotel
5.9/34
After his wife's murder, widow Wong A Ping sets up a Peace Hotel to act as a sanctuary for anyone who needs protecting. One day a mysterious woman sho...
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Peace Hotel
1995
Mean Street Story
5.5/2
Miu (Ekin Cheng) grew up on Temple Street, where most of the gangsters in the area gathered, but he never hung around with them. When he accidentally...
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Mean Street Story
1991
The Royal Scoundrel
5.222/9
Beach Boy is a maverick cop whose unorthodox and incompetent ways are frowned upon by his uptight superiors. His inept partner Mr. Chow isn't much hel...
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The Royal Scoundrel
1997
Walk In
7/1
The "walk in" of the title refers to one person allowing another's soul to take possession of his body at the time of death.
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Walk In
1999
Four Chefs and a Feast
0/0
Fifty years after partners in a prestigious Shanghai restaurant split, others try to restore it to its glory.
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Four Chefs and a Feast
1994
How Deep Is Your Love
3.5/2
David's lover has died and his Lovers Sister is coming back from America to tie up loose ends. David who is gay soon finds he is in love with his exes...
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How Deep Is Your Love
1997
Dragon Town Story
6.5/6
A woman works with an assassin to get revenge upon the man who murdered her family nine years earlier.
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Dragon Town Story
2003
The Stories of Han Dynasty
8/3
Po Fu Chen Zhou is a re-enactment of the most fascinating Chinese historical legend. Mainland famous actor Wu Jun stars as an ancient Conqueror while...
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The Stories of Han Dynasty
1998
Ninth Happiness
6.3/6
Choi Hung village is full of innocents: people sing and work. The town beauty, Chi Wan, sees a stranger in the woods and falls in love, believing he's...
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