April

Biography

Bing-Ying Hou is a Taiwanese actress born in Taipei in 1968. She comes from an artistic family; her father Jin Tao was a founding member of the Bamboo Union and a prominent TV actor in the 1970s, while her mother Li Jia-Qian is a renowned culinary expert. She entered the film industry at age 14 when her mother introduced her to the field, enrolling in the fifth training course of Shaw Brothers film studio. She moved to Taiwan in 1996 and rose to fame through the TV series "Shi Gong Qi An" on CTS. She suffered a spinal injury due to exhaustion during filming but courageously continued working. She also worked in Malaysia for a year with HVD Chinese television. She retired from acting at the height of her career due to cervical cancer and turned to writing, publishing the novel "Matchbox" in 2009.