李琳琳

简介

Actress Maggie Li Lin Lin, formerly known as Li Yue Ling, was born on November 13, 1948 and grew up in Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, and was active in the Tsim Sha Tsui area. She studied at St. Cecilia's Divine School and began learning singing at age eight, then turned to studying Peking opera under teacher Fen Jiehua from age nine, alongside classmates such as Chen Bao Zhu and Xiao Fang Fang. She joined the film industry in 1963 when she was selected to participate in the film "Teach Me How Not to Think About Her" through an open audition, and signed a contract with Dianyi Film Company. Between 1967 and 1979, she starred in over thirty films, most notably the dance film "Melody of Youth." In the mid-1970s, she transitioned to television, appearing in the sitcom "Nice to Meet You," as well as "A Heart With a Thousand Knots" and "Little Li's Flying Dagger," which were widely popular. She is fluent in four languages: Cantonese, English, Mandarin, and Shanghainese. In the 1980s and 1990s, she worked as a host for the program "New Women" before immigrating to Canada in the early 1990s. She returned to Hong Kong in 2007 and resumed her artistic activities in 2024, participating in the American series "Expats" and the short film "The Perfect Him," as well as the film "From Now On," which was selected for the Berlin International Film Festival.