--- name: "Shu Qi" canonical: "https://film.one/person/shu-qi" roles: ["Actor"] born: "16 April 1976" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-17T12:38:44.885901+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." --- # Shu Qi Actor. Born 16 April 1976 in Taipei, Taiwan. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 16 April 1976, Taipei, Taiwan - **Also known as:** Shu Kei, Hsu Chi, Lin Li-hui, 舒淇, Шу Ці, 서기, Seo Ki, Thư Kỳ, 林立慧, شو کی, شو چی - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shu_Qi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q233859, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0795517/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/21911 ## Streaming the US now - **Apple TV:** [*The Assassin*](https://film.one/film/the-assassin.md) (82) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Shu Qi > Shu Qi's best work is in stillness: she lets you watch her decide before she acts, and the deciding is the performance. Hou Hsiao-hsien found this in her over three films, and *The Assassin* (2015) is where it pays off. In *The Assassin* (2015) Shu Qi says perhaps thirty lines. She wears the same dark tunic from first scene to last, so that in a candlelit room she reads as a gap in it, and Hou Hsiao-hsien is content to leave her at the edge of the frame and let her look. Yinniang is a woman trained out of wanting anything, and the performance is in how long she watches before she decides whether something is still there. It is acting by delay, and it only works with a director prepared to hold the shot. She did not start there. She left Taiwan for Hong Kong at 17, modelled, and worked in Category III films before *Viva Erotica* (1996) moved her into the mainstream. Then came Hou: *Millennium Mambo* (2001), *Three Times* (2005) and *The Assassin*, three films across fourteen years, and the three most often named when critics talk about her seriously. Around them she has made commercial pictures across Hong Kong, Taiwan and the mainland, including three with Feng Xiaogang, and the popular films and the Hou films are usually discussed as if made by two different people. What works is patience. We spent stretches of *The Assassin* holding our breath in scenes where nothing was happening, because she made not moving look like a choice being made in front of us; when she did move, briefly and without flourish, it landed harder than the film's few fights. Huang Wen-ying, who designed both the sets and the clothes, deserves a share of it: one dark figure against lit rooms gives the eye a place to rest, and Shu Qi knows how to be rested on. *Three Times* is singled out for a similar reason, one actor carrying three women in three different eras, though we have not reviewed it and will not pretend to more than that. The cost of the method is obvious. It needs a camera that waits, and not every director she has worked with has been in the business of waiting. She has now gone behind the camera herself. *Girl* (2025) is her directorial debut, developed over a decade with Hou's encouragement, and she has said of him, "Mr. Hou is like a father to me. He always asked me to challenge myself." Whether the stillness she learned in front of his camera can be taught to actors standing in front of hers is the question the next one will answer. Until then, start with *The Assassin*, and watch her before she speaks. ## Biography Shu Qi, also credited as Hsu Chi, Shu Kei or Lin Li-hui, is a Taiwanese actress and model. Born Lin Li-hui on 16 April 1976 in Xindian, Taipei County (now New Taipei City), she moved to Hong Kong at the age of 17 to pursue a film career and began in softcore modelling before appearing in Category III films such as *Sex & Zen II* (1996). She gained wider recognition with her performance in *Viva Erotica* (1996). Shu Qi has collaborated repeatedly with director Hou Hsiao-hsien, appearing in *Millennium Mambo* (2001), *Three Times* (2005) and as Nie Yinniang in *The Assassin* (2015). Other notable films include *Gorgeous* (1999), *The Transporter* (2002), *Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons* (2013) and *Mojin: The Lost Legend* (2015). She has won multiple Hong Kong Film Awards and Golden Horse Awards, and served on the main competition juries at the Berlinale, Cannes and Venice film festivals. In 2016 she married actor-director Stephen Fung; she made her directorial debut with *Girl* (2025). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *The Assassin* (2015), Fi1m 82, as Nie Yinniang — [page](https://film.one/film/the-assassin.md) ## Complete filmography (104) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Resurrection* (2025), as The Great Other / Mother / Voiceover - *Girl* (2025), Director, Writer - *Good Autumn, Mommy* (2025), as Chen Fengdi, Presenter - *The Resurrected* (2025), series, as Wang Hui-chun - *If You Are the One 3* (2023), as Liang Xiaoxiao - *Impermanence Is Eternity* (2021), Acting - *The Best Acting Performances: A Self-inflicted Whistleblower* (2019), as the bar owner - *Shanghai Fortress* (2019), as Lin Lan - *The Island* (2018), series, as Shan Shan - *The Island* (2018), as Shan Shan - *The Adventurers* (2017), as Red - *Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back* (2017), as Miss Duan - *The Village of No Return* (2017), as Autumn - *My Best Friend's Wedding* (2016), as Gu Jia - *Mojin: The Lost Legend* (2015), as Shirley Yang - *The Last Women Standing* (2015), as Sheng Ruxi - *All You Need Is Love* (2015), as Yeh Fenfen - *The Assassin* (2015), as Nie Yinniang — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/the-assassin.md) - *Gone with the Bullets* (2014), as Wanyan Ying - *继续宠爱·十年·音乐会* (2013), Acting - *Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons* (2013), as Miss Duan - *Chinese Zodiac* (2012), as David's Wife - *Tai Chi Hero* (2012), as Mother Yang - *Tai Chi Zero* (2012), as Mother Yang - *The Second Woman* (2012), as Wai Heung / Wai Bo - *Love* (2012), as Zoe Fang - *Beautiful University* (2012), as Qin Yue - *10 Plus 10* (2011), as The Young Woman (segment "La Belle Epoque") - *A Beautiful Life* (2011), as Li Peiru - *If You Are the One 2* (2010), as Liang Xiaoxiao - *Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen* (2010), as Kiki - *City Under Siege* (2010), as Angel Chan - *Look for a Star* (2009), as Milan Sit - *If You Are the One* (2008), as Liang Xiaoxiao - *New York, I Love You* (2008), as Chinese Herbalist - *To Each His Own Cinema* (2007), as Pregnant Woman - *Blood Brothers* (2007), as Lulu - *Forest of Death* (2007), as Detective C.C. Ha - *My Wife is a Gangster 3* (2006), as Lim Aryoung / Lam Ngar Ling - *Confession of Pain* (2006), as Hung - *风尘三侠之红拂女* (2006), series, as 红拂 - *Romance of Red Dust* (2006), series, as Hong Fu Nu - *Three Times* (2005), as May / Courtesan / Jing - *Home Sweet Home* (2005), as May Cheng - *Seoul Raiders* (2005), as J.J. - *The Eye 2* (2004), as Joey Cheng - *The Foliage* (2004), as Ye Xing Yu - *Looking for Mr. Perfect* (2003), as Grace - *The Transporter* (2002), as Lai - *Just One Look* (2002), as Mysterious girl on balcony - *Haunted Office* (2002), as Shan - *Women from Mars* (2002), as Messenger of Hell - *So Close* (2002), as Ai Lin / Lynn - *The Wesley's Mysterious File* (2002), as Pak Sue - *Millennium Mambo* (2001), as Vicky - *Beijing Rocks* (2001), as Yang Yin - *Love Me, Love My Money* (2001), as Choi - *Visible Secret* (2001), as June / Wong Siu Kam - *Martial Angels* (2001), as Cat - *For Bad Boys Only* (2000), as Shadow/Kwan Chin/Eleven - *Flyin' Dance* (2000), as Siu Yu - *Skyline Cruisers* (2000), as June - *Hidden Whisper* (2000), as Xiaobai - *The Duke of Mount Deer* (2000), series, as 小金魚 - *Born to Be King* (2000), as Mei Ling - *The Island Tales* (2000), as Mei Ling - *My Name Is Nobody* (2000), as Bitter - *Metade Fumaça* (1999), as Ah Nam - *Dragon Heat* (1999), Acting - *A Man Called Hero* (1999), as Mu - *My Loving Trouble 7* (1999), as Julia - *Gorgeous* (1999), as Ah Bu - *When I Look Upon the Stars* (1999), as Kiki - *Home in My Heart* (1999), as Lai - *难得有情人* (1999), series, Acting - *The Blacksheep Affair* (1998), as Chan Pun - *City of Glass* (1998), as Vivien Hung - *Extreme Crisis* (1998), as Anita Lee - *Bishonen* (1998), as Kana - *Love Generation Hong Kong* (1998), as Joey - *The Storm Riders* (1998), as Chu Chu - *Young and Dangerous: The Prequel* (1998), as Fei - *Portland Street Blues* (1998), as Scarface - *Young and Dangerous 5* (1998), as Tang Mei Ling - *The Lucky Guy* (1998), as Law Fon Fon - *Love Is Not a Game, But a Joke* (1997), as Sandy Lee Lai-Shan - *My Dad Is a Jerk* (1997), as Angela - *Those Were the Days* (1997), as Siu Fong Fong - *L-O-V-E...... Love* (1997), as Faye Lok - *Iron Sister* (1997), as Ironic Suen - *Love: Amoeba Style* (1997), as Boy - *A Queer Story* (1997), as Little Fai - *張國榮跨越97演唱會* (1997), Acting - *Viva Erotica* (1996), as Mango - *Till Death Do Us Laugh* (1996), as Yu Wai-Kei - *Growing Up* (1996), as Maggie Shao - *Street Angels* (1996), as Ming-Ming - *Sex and Zen II* (1996), as Siu Chui - *Shu Qi: Viva! Island Girl* (1996), as 梦娇 - *Tender Feeling* (1996), Acting - *Unexpected Challenges* (1995), as Zsa Zsa - *Flayer*, Acting - *狄仁杰之三尸九虫*, Acting - *Decent Things*, Acting ## Gallery - ![Shu Qi](https://film.one/media/person/695512/gallery-614a6fa1d632.jpg) Shu Qi — Sara Komatsu, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Shu_Qi_at_the_2025_Toronto_International_Film_Festival._01_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Shu_Qi_at_the_2025_Toronto_International_Film_Festival._01_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Shu Qi attends the premiere for the film "Resurrection" at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/695512/gallery-d23222200501.jpg) Shu Qi attends the premiere for the film "Resurrection" at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival — Gabriel Hutchinson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Shu_Qi_at_the_2025_Cannes_Film_Festival_01.jpg/1280px-Shu_Qi_at_the_2025_Cannes_Film_Festival_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Shu Qi attends the premiere for the film "Resurrection" at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/695512/gallery-e1f0c8b39ccc.jpg) Shu Qi attends the premiere for the film "Resurrection" at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival — Gabriel Hutchinson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Shu_Qi_at_the_2025_Cannes_Film_Festival_02.jpg/1280px-Shu_Qi_at_the_2025_Cannes_Film_Festival_02.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Shu Qi attends the premiere for the film "Resurrection" at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/695512/gallery-609dac36d705.jpg) Shu Qi attends the premiere for the film "Resurrection" at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival — Gabriel Hutchinson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Shu_Qi_at_the_2025_Cannes_Film_Festival_03.jpg/1280px-Shu_Qi_at_the_2025_Cannes_Film_Festival_03.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Shu Qi](https://film.one/media/person/695512/gallery-86ce6cba81ad.jpg) Shu Qi — Image via TMDB - ![Shu Qi](https://film.one/media/person/695512/gallery-99a32f4284fc.jpg) Shu Qi — Image via TMDB - ![Shu Qi](https://film.one/media/person/695512/gallery-51635399ac9a.jpg) Shu Qi — Image via TMDB - ![Shu Qi attends the premiere for the film "Resurrection" at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/695512/gallery-3375636a3b2a.jpg) Shu Qi attends the premiere for the film "Resurrection" at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival — Gabriel Hutchinson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Shu_Qi_at_the_2025_Cannes_Film_Festival_04.jpg/1280px-Shu_Qi_at_the_2025_Cannes_Film_Festival_04.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Shu Qi attends the premiere for the film "Resurrection" at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/695512/gallery-a2b3de548e6a.jpg) Shu Qi attends the premiere for the film "Resurrection" at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival — Gabriel Hutchinson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Shu_Qi_at_the_2025_Cannes_Film_Festival_05.jpg/1280px-Shu_Qi_at_the_2025_Cannes_Film_Festival_05.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Shu Qi](https://film.one/media/person/695512/gallery-a483c21939bf.jpg) Shu Qi — Image via TMDB - ![Shu Qi](https://film.one/media/person/695512/gallery-c33f4dfccd6b.jpg) Shu Qi — Image via TMDB - ![Shu Qi](https://film.one/media/person/695512/gallery-9d2fdd1e4aea.jpg) Shu Qi — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Other awards — 2 won - Asian Film Award for Best Actress 2016: Asian Film Award for Best Actress (won), for *The Assassin* - Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress 2005: Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress (won), for *Three Times* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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