Brigitte Lin ( ) or Brigitte Lin Ching Hsia (born November 3 1954) is a Taiwanese actress.
She was born in Taipei, and was "discovered" in 1972 by a film producer, and first appeared in many Taiwanese romance films based on the novels of Qiong Yao, also known as Chiung Yao. She later switched over to more mainstream movies in Hong Kong. At the height of her popularity she was arguably one of the most sought after actresses in the Chinese film industry. She starred in more than 100 movies .
Lin made a career of playing transgender roles: in Peking Opera Blues she plays a tomboy who dresses in male Western clothes; in New Dragon Gate Inn she is a woman who dresses as a man, and in Swordsman II and III she plays a castrated male fighter slowly turning into a woman.
She married businessman Michael Ying in 1994 and left the film industry, and now lives in Hillsborough, California. She has two daughters, born in 1997 and 2001.
(1984-1985) Was Engaged to Chinese film Star actor Charlie Chin Hsion-Lin
(1997) She gave birth to a baby girl named Ai-Ling Ying
She is a Chinese SUPER STAR. Made over 100 films. She was discovered as a teenager (17 years old) back in the late 70's on a busy street in Teipai, Taiwan. At age 17, she was cast as a student falling in love with her teacher in the film "Out side my window." Dated actor Hong Chin for over ten years in the 80's. No one in the modern Chinese film history has maintained a career as her. She is the "Grable" of Chinese films.
Often portrays men in Kung Fu/period movies.
