Brigitte Lin

Biography

Brigitte Lin is a Taiwanese actress and writer, born on November 3, 1954 in Taipei, Taiwan. She began her acting career in 1973 at the age of nineteen with the film *Outside the Window*, directed by Song Cunshou and based on a novel by Chiung Yao. She became one of the stars of Chiung Yao-style romance films in the 1970s and was grouped with Charlie Chin, Chin Han, and Joan Lin as the "Two Chins and Two Lins." In the late 1980s she shifted her focus to the Hong Kong film industry, and in the 1990s she successfully reinvented herself in wuxia costume films, with her role as the "Invincible East" becoming her most iconic character. Among her major achievements, she won the Best Actress award at the 22nd Asia-Pacific Film Festival in 1976 for *Eight Hundred Heroes*, and the Best Actress award at the 27th Golden Horse Awards in 1990 for *Red Dust*. She retired from acting in 1994 after her marriage, having appeared in over one hundred films, half of which were literary romance films. In 2023 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 60th Golden Horse Awards.