---
name: "Brigitte Lin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/brigitte-lin"
fi1m_id: "brigitte-lin"
imdb_id: "nm0510857"
tmdb_id: 56830
wikidata_id: "Q256942"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "3 November 1954"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T14:13:31.836015+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Brigitte Lin

## Identity

Brigitte Lin

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/brigitte-lin
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** brigitte-lin
- **IMDb ID:** nm0510857
- **TMDB ID:** 56830
- **Wikidata ID:** Q256942
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Lin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q256942, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0510857/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/56830

Actor. Born 3 November 1954 in Taipei, Taiwan.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 3 November 1954, Taipei, Taiwan
- **Active:** 1974–1994
- **Also known as:** Venus Lin, Lam Ching-Ha, Lin Ching-Ha, Lin Ching-Tsia, Lam Cheng-Ha, Lin Chin-Hsia, 林青霞, Lin Ching Hsia, 임청하, หลินชิงเสีย, Lâm Thanh Hà, Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Lin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q256942, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0510857/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/56830

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Chungking Express*](https://film.one/film/chungking-express.md) (85)

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## Fi1m on Brigitte Lin

> Brigitte Lin brings feeling to martial-arts roles and a welcome hardness to romance. We rate her ability to make such heightened characters matter, even when a film gives its easier pleasures to somebody else.

In *Chungking Express* (1994), Brigitte Lin's woman in a blonde wig gives the romantic wandering a harder edge. The lonely policemen can be funny and faintly ridiculous; her presence makes their self-absorption feel less like the only thing happening in Hong Kong. We value that difference. Wong Kar-wai makes their embarrassment part of the pleasure of watching them, but Lin offers a useful change of tone. She need not be the most immediately engaging person in the film to improve it.

Her career began in Taiwanese romantic drama with *Outside the Window* (1973), before the move into Hong Kong cinema from 1983. *Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain* (1983) marks the turn towards genre work, with *Peking Opera Blues* (1986) and *Swordsman II* (1992) among the important films that followed. Working with directors including Tsui Hark, she took on action and androgynous roles, notably the cult leader Dongfang Bubai in *Swordsman II*. The early romances could be formulaic, but her ability to convey romantic innocence remained useful when the parts became fiercer. Wong Kar-wai's *Ashes of Time* (1994), with its dual-gender roles, offers another way into this side of her work.

*Chungking Express* gives her a busy city to contend with. Cinematographers Andrew Lau Wai-Keung and Christopher Doyle use handheld images and bold colour to keep Hong Kong moving around the characters. We were more moved than we expected by the policemen's loneliness, because those crowded streets made it look so ordinary. Against that, Lin's severity is welcome: another wistful performance would make the company less varied. The film benefits from having someone who brings a harder feeling into its romantic scenes, rather than simply adding another version of the same unhappiness.

Wong also gives Lin useful competition: Faye Wong's playful performance makes the second story the more engaging one. That is worth saying, because an appreciation of Lin need not pretend that she is the chief attraction here. There are stretches when the music and colour do more work than the scenes deserve, and no performance quite solves that. Even so, the cast makes the wandering worth following. Start with *Chungking Express*, then try *Swordsman II* for the action roles that became such an important part of her work.

## Biography

Brigitte Lin is a Taiwanese actress. Born on 3 November 1954 in Sanchong, Taipei County, she was discovered on the streets of Taipei in 1972 and made her film debut in the 1973 adaptation of *Outside the Window*. She appeared in numerous Taiwanese romance films during the 1970s before moving to Hong Kong cinema.

In Hong Kong she took on a range of roles, including in *Police Story* (1985), *Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain* (1983), *New Dragon Gate Inn* (1992), *The Bride with White Hair* (1993) and *Ashes of Time* (1994). She retired from acting following her marriage to businessman Michael Ying in 1994. In 2023 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Golden Horse Awards.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Chungking Express* (1994), Fi1m 85, as Woman in Blonde Wig — [page](https://film.one/film/chungking-express.md)

## Complete filmography (105)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Ashes of Time Redux* (2008), as 慕容嫣、慕容燕
- *Peony Pavilion* (2001), as Narrator
- *Bishonen* (1998), as Narrator
- *Ashes of Time* (1994), as Murong Yang / Murong Yin / Dugu Qiubai
- *Fire Dragon* (1994), as Ha / Fire Dragon
- *The Three Swordsmen* (1994), as Ming Kim
- *Chungking Express* (1994), as Woman in Blonde Wig — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/chungking-express.md)
- *The Maidens of Heavenly Mountains* (1994), as Li Chou-Shui / Li Chong-Hoi
- *Deadful Melody* (1994), as Snow
- *The Bride with White Hair 2* (1993), as Lien Ni Chang
- *The Black Panther Warriors* (1993), as Chin Chin
- *The Bride with White Hair* (1993), as Lien Ni Chang
- *Boys Are Easy* (1993), as Ching Siu Tung
- *Swordsman III: The East Is Red* (1993), as Dung Fong Bat Bai
- *The Eagle Shooting Heroes* (1993), as Third Princess
- *Handsome Siblings* (1992), as More
- *Royal Tramp 2* (1992), as Divine Lady of Dragon Sect
- *New Dragon Gate Inn* (1992), as Yau Mo Yan
- *Royal Tramp* (1992), as Divine Lady of Dragon Sect
- *The Legend of the Swordsman* (1992), as Dung Fong Bat Bai
- *Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land* (1992), as Yun Zhifan
- *Red Dust* (1990), as Shen Shao-Hua
- *Web of Deception* (1989), as Jane Lin
- *Starry Is the Night* (1988), as To Caimei
- *Flag of Honor* (1987), Actor
- *The Thirty Million Dollar Rush* (1987), as Sister Maria
- *Lady in Black* (1987), as May
- *True Colours* (1986), as May
- *Peking Opera Blues* (1986), as Tsao Wan
- *Dream Lovers* (1986), as Cheung Yuet-Heung
- *Police Story* (1985), as Salina Fong
- *Seven Foxes* (1985), Actor
- *The Other Side of Gentleman* (1984), as Jo Jo
- *Be Careful Sweetheart* (1984), Actor
- *The Great Surprise* (1983), as Robber Robin
- *Fire Dragon* (1983), as Lily (archive footage)
- *Seven Black Heroines* (1983), as 黑狐方慧君 Black Fox
- *The Four Sheepish Dummies* (1983), Actor
- *All the Wrong Spies* (1983), as Bridget
- *Fantasy Mission Force* (1983), as Lily
- *Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain* (1983), as Ice Queen
- *Night Orchid* (1983), as Su-su
- *Black and White* (1983), Actor
- *The Switch* (1982), as Shen Yin-Pai
- *Burn Phoenix Burn* (1982), as Wei Yen-jan
- *Pink Force Commando* (1982), as Jackal
- *Phoenix the Raider* (1982), Actor
- *Lily Under the Gun* (1982), as Lily
- *The Women Soldiers* (1981), Actor
- *Love Massacre* (1981), as Ivy
- *无情荒地有情天* (1981), Actor
- *Magnificent 72* (1980), Actor
- *The Marigolds* (1980), Actor
- *Poor Chasers* (1980), as Shen Jung
- *Love Under a Rosy Sky* (1979), as Tsai Chin
- *An Unforgettable Day* (1979), as Tien Yu-Chiu
- *By Love Obsessed* (1979), Actor
- *Return of Monsoon* (1979), as Wen Jiayi
- *The Wild Goose on the Wing* (1979), as Tao Tan-feng
- *A Love Seed* (1979), Actor
- *Off to Success* (1979), Actor
- *A Journey of Love* (1979), Actor
- *Love of the White Snake* (1978), as White Snake
- *Love's Many Faces* (1978), Actor
- *Morning Fog* (1978), Actor
- *Birds Are Singing Everywhere* (1978), Actor
- *The Story of Green House* (1978), Actor
- *The Misty Moon* (1978), Actor
- *The Dream of the Red Chamber* (1977), as Jia Baoyu
- *Orchid in the Rain* (1977), as Chiu Meng
- *Love in My Heart* (1977), Actor
- *There's No Place like Home* (1977), Actor
- *Cloud of Romance* (1977), as Tuan Wanlu
- *The Love Affair of Rainbow* (1977), as Xiao Hong
- *The Beauty with Two Faces* (1976), Actor
- *Love By Post* (1976), Actor
- *The Chasing Game* (1976), Actor
- *My Funny Intern* (1976), Actor
- *Different Love* (1976), as Sung Hsiao Yu
- *Forever My Love* (1976), Actor
- *The Autumn Love Song* (1976), as Zhi Jun
- *Tomorrow I'm 20* (1976), Actor
- *Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow* (1976), Actor
- *Love Forever* (1976), as 依莲 I Lien
- *Come Fly with Me* (1976), as Liu Yen-mei
- *Run Lover Run* (1975), as Hsu Li Ping
- *The Forest of Forever* (1975), as Luo Ya-nan
- *He Loved Once Too Many* (1975), Actor
- *Eight Hundred Heroes* (1975), as Yang Hui Min
- *True Love* (1975), Actor
- *Hot Wave* (1975), as Hsiao Shao-Yu
- *The Unforgettable Character* (1975), as Tu Hsiao-Shuang
- *The Life God* (1975), Actor
- *Misty Drizzle* (1975), Actor
- *Little Sister-in-law* (1975), Actor
- *Green Green Meadow* (1974), Actor
- *Girl Friend* (1974), as Hsia Hsiao-tsan
- *News Hen* (1974), Actor
- *The House for Love* (1974), as Xiao Yu
- *Ghost of the Mirror* (1974), as Su-Su / Yau Ying
- *Love, Love, Love* (1974), as Lin Chunchun
- *Long Way from Home* (1974), Actor
- *Gone with the Cloud* (1974), Actor
- *Moon River* (1974), as 梁新蘭 Liang Hsin Lan
- *Outside the Window* (1973), as 江雁容 Chiang Yen Yung

## Gallery

- ![Star, hand prints and autograph of Brigitte Lin Ching Hsia on the Avenue of Stars in Hong Kong. (2007)](https://film.one/media/person/84166/gallery-c82985200111.jpg) Star, hand prints and autograph of Brigitte Lin Ching Hsia on the Avenue of Stars in Hong Kong. (2007) — BrokenSphere, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Brigitte_Lin%2C_Avenue_of_Stars.JPG/1280px-Brigitte_Lin%2C_Avenue_of_Stars.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Brigitte Lin](https://film.one/media/person/84166/gallery-fa9c3a98933c.jpg) Brigitte Lin — HKIFFMarketing, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Brigitte_Lin_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![安達臣道 (林青霞豪華巨宅)](https://film.one/media/person/84166/gallery-9c32fe3cc259.jpg) 安達臣道 (林青霞豪華巨宅) — ken93110, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/%E5%AE%89%E9%81%94%E8%87%A3%E9%81%93_%28%E6%9E%97%E9%9D%92%E9%9C%9E%E8%B1%AA%E8%8F%AF%E5%B7%A8%E5%AE%85%29_-_panoramio.jpg/1280px-%E5%AE%89%E9%81%94%E8%87%A3%E9%81%93_%28%E6%9E%97%E9%9D%92%E9%9C%9E%E8%B1%AA%E8%8F%AF%E5%B7%A8%E5%AE%85%29_-_panoramio.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Brigitte Lin (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/84166/gallery-2087ced02295.jpg) Brigitte Lin (2018) — HKIFFMarketing, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/%E6%9E%97%E9%9D%92%E9%9C%9E.jpg/1280px-%E6%9E%97%E9%9D%92%E9%9C%9E.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Brigitte Lin](https://film.one/media/person/84166/gallery-26691ed838db.jpg) Brigitte Lin — Image via TMDB
- ![Brigitte Lin](https://film.one/media/person/84166/gallery-279537d7376e.jpg) Brigitte Lin — Image via TMDB
- ![Brigitte Lin](https://film.one/media/person/84166/gallery-6dd2aeca7a3a.jpg) Brigitte Lin — Image via TMDB
- ![Brigitte Lin](https://film.one/media/person/84166/gallery-d1cb93357152.jpg) Brigitte Lin — Image via TMDB
- ![Brigitte Lin](https://film.one/media/person/84166/gallery-6b94cc421eb1.jpg) Brigitte Lin — Image via TMDB
- ![Brigitte Lin](https://film.one/media/person/84166/gallery-4399ce2cf12a.jpg) Brigitte Lin — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress 1990: Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress (won), for *Red Dust*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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