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name: "Yang Kuei-mei"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/yang-kuei-mei"
fi1m_id: "yang-kuei-mei"
imdb_id: "nm0945992"
tmdb_id: 65354
wikidata_id: "Q701002"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "6 September 1959"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T04:34:52.675934+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."
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# Yang Kuei-mei

## Identity

Yang Kuei-mei

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/yang-kuei-mei
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** yang-kuei-mei
- **IMDb ID:** nm0945992
- **TMDB ID:** 65354
- **Wikidata ID:** Q701002
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Kuei-mei, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q701002, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0945992/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/65354

Actor. Born 6 September 1959 in Taipei, Taiwan.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 6 September 1959, Taipei, Taiwan
- **Also known as:** Gui-Mei Yang, Kuei-Mei Yang
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Kuei-mei, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q701002, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0945992/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/65354

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Eat Drink Man Woman*](https://film.one/film/eat-drink-man-woman.md) (82)

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## Biography

Yang Kuei-mei is a Taiwanese actress. She was born on 6 September 1959 in Taipei, Taiwan.

She is known for her roles as Jia-Jen in *Eat Drink Man Woman* (1994), May Lin in *Vive L'Amour* (1994) and the Woman Downstairs in *The Hole* (1998). She won the Best Actress award at the Singapore International Film Festival for *Vive L'Amour* and *The Hole*, and the Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress for *The Moon Also Rises* (2004).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Eat Drink Man Woman* (1994), Fi1m 82, as Jia-Jen — [page](https://film.one/film/eat-drink-man-woman.md)

## Complete filmography (68)

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

- *Happily Ever After* (2026), as Wang Shu Fen
- *Dua Ji* (2026), as A-Hsien (Big Sis)
- *Double Happiness* (2026), as Carina Bai
- *Our Bar* (2025), series, as Ms. Fong
- *A Journey in Spring* (2024), as Siù-Tuān
- *Born for the Spotlight* (2024), series, as Yu Yen-fang
- *Yen and Ai-Lee* (2024), as Ai-Lee Wu
- *A Table for One (Is Great Too)* (2024), series, as Aunt Ku
- *Dark Wave* (2023), Actor
- *Living* (2023), series, as Chen Li-ying
- *Women in Taipei* (2022), series, as Mrs. Kuei
- *Echo* (2022), Actor
- *Can You Hear Me?* (2021), as Ming Zhu Wang
- *The Silent Forest* (2020), as Principal
- *Tigertail* (2020), as Minghua
- *Koali & Rice* (2020), Actor
- *Best Interest* (2019), series, as Chang Hsiu Min
- *Back to Home* (2019), series, as Zhou Huimin
- *The World Between Us* (2019), series, as Kao-Chang Yu-min
- *Han Dan* (2019), as Liao Chin-Hua
- *媽媽不見了* (2017), series, Actor
- *She's Family* (2017), Actor
- *Hanky Panky* (2017), Actor
- *Damn Mother* (2017), Actor
- *苏足* (2016), series, Actor
- *The Crossing II* (2015), Actor
- *The Crossing I* (2014), as Yan's mother
- *Stray Dogs* (2014), as Woman
- *Lion Dancing* (2014), Actor
- *Home* (2012), series, as 苏廖清美
- *Alice in Wonder City* (2012), series, as Jin Li Suo / "Lisa King"
- *Love* (2012), as Mark's Mother
- *Visage* (2009), Actor
- *Tears of Happiness* (2009), series, Actor
- *Our Island, Our Dreams* (2009), as Huang De Yue
- *Detours to Paradise* (2009), as Man-Guang Fei
- *I Do?* (2008), series, as 符明珠
- *Pleasure Factory* (2007), as Linda
- *The Knot* (2006), as 徐凤娘
- *Blue Cha Cha* (2006), Actor
- *Moonlight in Tokyo* (2005), as Yan
- *The Moon Also Rises* (2005), as Pao-chai
- *Fire Ball* (2005), as Princess Fan
- *The Wayward Cloud* (2005), as Imaginary girl
- *Goodbye, Dragon Inn* (2003), as Peanut Eating Woman
- *Robinson's Crusoe* (2003), as Billie
- *Double Vision* (2002), as Coroner
- *A Little Life-Opera* (1998), as Xueyan
- *The Hole* (1998), as The Woman Downstairs
- *The River* (1997), as Woman in Hotel
- *Tonight Nobody Goes Home* (1996), as Qin Zhen
- *In a Strange City* (1996), Actor
- *Lonely Hearts Club* (1995), as Miss Lin
- *Sun Valley* (1995), Actor
- *Modern Republic* (1995), Actor
- *Vive L'Amour* (1994), as May Lin
- *Eat Drink Man Woman* (1994), as Jia-Jen — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/eat-drink-man-woman.md)
- *火浴鳳凰* (1993), series, as Chen Yufen
- *Hill of No Return* (1992), as Ah Rou (Jou)
- *良人* (1992), series, as 月霞
- *花祭* (1990), Actor
- *We Are All Taiwanese* (1989), Actor
- *My Beloved* (1988), Actor
- *Strawman* (1987), as Wide Mouth Wife
- *Everlasting Chivalry* (1980), Actor
- *Another Spring* (1980), Actor
- *Bad Girl*, Actor
- *Don't Father Me!*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Yang Kuei-mei](https://film.one/media/person/5531948/gallery-131028c90382.jpg) Yang Kuei-mei — PlayIN, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Yang_Kuei-mei_20200303.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Yang Kuei-mei](https://film.one/media/person/5531948/gallery-db651083f4d2.jpg) Yang Kuei-mei — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress 2004: Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress (won), for *The Moon Also Rises*

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

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