Bai Ling (1966)

Bai Ling
General Information
Birth Name	Bai Ling
Gender	Female
Birth Place	Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Birth Date	October 10, 1966
Occupation	Actress, Composer, Producer, Writer
Years Active	1981 to Present

Filmography

• Hai tan (1984)
• Tears in Suzhou (1985)
• Yue Yue (1986)
• Shan cun feng yue (1987)
• Da xue sheng yi shi (1987)
• Wu qiang qiang shou (1988)
• Arc Light (1989)
• Pen Pals (1992)
• Escape from China (1992)
• Homicide: Life on the Street (1993) 1 episode
• The Crow (1994)
• Dead Funny (1994)
• The Cosby Mysteries (1995) 1 episode
• Dead Weekend (1995)
• Nobody's Girls: Five Women of the West (1995)
• Nixon (1995)
• Red Corner (1997)
• Touched by an Angel (1998) 2 episodes
• Somewhere in the City (1998)
• Row Your Boat (1999)
• Wild Wild West (1999)
• Anna and the King (1999)
• Chi-Chian: The Black Seed (2000)
• Angel (2000) 1 episode
• The Wild Thornberrys (2000) 2 episodes
• The Lost Empire (2001)
• Shaolin Soccer (2001)
• The Breed (2001)
• Face (2002)
• Storm Watch (2002)
• Point of Origin (2002)
• Taxi 3 (2003)
• The Extreme Team (2003)
• Paris (2003)
• Jake 2.0 (2003) 1 episode
• My Baby's Daddy (2004)
• The Beautiful Country (2004)
• She Hate Me (2004)
• Dumplings (2004)
• Three... Extremes (2004)
• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
• Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
• Lords of Dogtown (2005)
• Ego Trip's Race-O-Rama (2005) ? episodes
• Peace, Love & Bikinis! (2005)
• Entourage (2005) 1 episode
• Nomad: The Warrior (2005)
• Edmond (2005)
• Man About Town (2006)
• Best of Chris Isaak (2006)
• Southland Tales (2006)
• Lost (2007) 1 episode
• Living & Dying (2007)
• The Unit (2007) 1 episode
• Shanghai Baby (2007)
• The Gene Generation (2007)
• A Place in Time (2007)
• In the Mood for Doyle (2007)
• Fashion News Live (2007-10) 4 episodes
• The Hustle (2008)
• Toxic (2008)
• Ka Shen's Journey (2008)
• A Beautiful Life (2008)
• Dim Sum Funeral (2008)
• Crank: High Voltage (2009)
• Chain Letter (2010)
• Comedy Makes You Cry (2010)
• Love Ranch (2010)
• Circle of Pain (2010)
• The Naturalized (2010)
• The Confidant (2010)
• Magic Man (2010)
• Petty Cash (2010)
• Locked Down (2010)
• The Bad Penny (2010)
• The Lazarus Papers (2010)
• The Being Frank Show (2010-11) 2 episodes
• Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew (2011) 10 episodes
• Love Cures Cancer: Take a Chance on Love II (2011)
• Hawaii Five-0 (2012) 1 episode
• The Unemployment of Danny London (2012) 1 episode
• Clash of the Empires (2012)
• Yellow Hill: The Stranger's Tale (2012)
• Speed Dragon (2013)
• Game of Assassins (2013)
• American Girls (2013)
• Blood Shed (2014)
• The Key (2014)
• Vultures in the Void (2014)
• Assassin's Game (2015)
• 6 Ways to Die (2015)
• League of Superheroes (2015)
• Boned (2015)
• Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance (2015)
• MoreHorror in Hollywood (2015) 1 episode
• Sacred Blood (2015)
• Everlasting (2016)
• Beyond the Game (2016)
• Classic Hollywood Cinemas (2016)
• Lord of Shanghai (2016)
• Better Criminal (2016)
• Call Me King (2017)
• To Pimp a Butterfly (2017)
• Gown and Out in Beverly Hills (2017) 1 episode
• Sharknado 5: Global Swarming (2017)
• Maximum Impact (2017)
• Detective Chinatown 2 (2018)
• Andover (2018)
• Barbee Rehab (2018) 2 episodes
• Assassins Revenge (2018)
• The Final Level: Escaping Rancala (2019)
• Airliner Sky Battle (2020)
• Jack Be Nimble (2022)
• Johnny & Clyde (2023)

Trivia

• One of People Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People in the World 1998".
• Bai Ling served three years in the People Liberation's Army in China entertaining troops in Tibet. She had a bout of depression which sent her to a mental hospital. She then became a Chinese movie star. All of this occurred before she was 18.
• Name means "white spirit" in English.
• Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2005. Memorable for her light dresses that didn't always cover her essentials all the time. German tabloids nicknamed her "die Berlinackte" ("the Berlinaked").
• Claimed that her role on Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith was cut during editing because of her posing for the June 2005 issue of US "Playboy" magazine. She was the first woman from the People's Republic of China on its cover. George Lucas strongly denied that this was the reason she was cut.
• Cut off all of her waist-length hair for her role in Anna and the King.
• Was the July 2007 entry in Stuff magazine's 2006-2007 pin up calendar.
• Arrested for shoplifting at Los Angeles International Airport on February 13, 2008.

Quotes

• A lot of my friends asked, "What's it like working with Jude Law? He's so handsome!" I said, "Well, I'm lucky; I got to kick his butt".