Jin Yinglian

Biography

Jin Yinglian is a Chinese Hong Kong actress, born on August 18, 1940, in Guangzhou, Guangdong. Her original name was Jin Yinglian but it was commonly miswritten. She emigrated with her parents to Southeast Asia in her childhood and came to Hong Kong by chance in 1961, entering the world of Cantonese opera and Hong Kong cinema. She was a prominent Cantonese opera supporting flower dan actress and film actress active in the early 1960s. Her screen debut was in the film "Divine Serpent and Flying Tiger Save the Right Empress" in 1961, and her final film before retirement was "Modern Monk Jigong" in 1965, with approximately 70 films to her credit. She formed a sisterhood with eight other actresses in the Hong Kong film industry, including Li Xiangqin and Ren Binger, known as the "Nine Sisters." The Nine Sisters founded a film company in 1964 and produced one film titled "The Nine Ladies of Fragrant City." She gave birth to her first child, a son, on April 6, 1965.