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Gong Li (Wallpaper 2). Gong Li widescreen wallpapers 2. Gong Li hot pictures and photoshoots collection 2. Gong Li beautiful and hot images gallery 2. Gong Li was born in Shenyang, Liaoning, the youngest in a family of five children. Her father was a professor of economics and her mother, who was 40 when Gong was born, was a teacher. Gong grew up in Jinan, the capital of Shandong. In 1985, Gong sought to study at China's top music school, but was denied entrance. Later that same year, she was accepted to the prestigious Central Academy of Drama in Beijing and graduated in 1989. While as a student at Central Academy of Drama, she was discovered by Zhang Yimou, who chose her for the lead role in Red Sorghum, his first film as a director. China's most internationally famous actress and a significant creative force in the new era of Chinese film in the 1980s, Gong Li began her film career in Zhang Yimou's "Red Sorghum" (1987), for which she received considerable international acclaim. A frequent collaborator with Yimou throughout her career, Li came to embody a new generation of Chinese woman - one brought up amid ancient tradition but reaching toward feminist values - with empowered roles in films like "Ju Dou" (1990), "Farewell My Concubine" (1993), and "Memoirs of a Geisha" (2005). Gong Li (Wallpaper 2). Gong Li widescreen wallpapers 2. Gong Li hot pictures and photoshoots collection 2. Gong Li beautiful and hot images gallery 2. Li's compelling, naturalistic performances as women struggling to overcome feudalism and patriarchy contributed to the international success of her films, and Li herself was credited with helping attract American audiences to Chinese film for the first time. Li continued holding their interest into the next millennium with lead roles in a variety of Academy Award-nominated films exploring Chinese culture, history, politics and passion. Gong Li was born Dec. 31, 1965, and raised in Shenyang as the youngest child of college professors in Beijing, China. With her early passion for singing, dancing and acting, Li was uninterested in following in her family's academic footsteps, and she went against their wishes by enrolling in Beijing's Central Academy of Drama after high school. It was there that she met budding young actor and director Zhang Yimou, who would launch both their careers with his 1987 film "Red Sorghum," which starred Li as a meek bride who becomes a powerful woman when she takes over her husband's winery after his death. The role set the tone for actress' future endeavors playing strong lead characters who often go against tradition, including her follow-ups "The Empress Dowager" (1988), directed by Li Hanxiang, and "The Terra Cotta Warrior" (1989), for which Li was nominated for a Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress. "Ju Dou" (1990), in which Li played the "purchased" wife of an abusive man who finds solace and tragic consequences in the company of another family member, marked Li (and director Yimou's) international breakout with a Palm D'Or nomination at the Cannes Film Festival and an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Film - the first Chinese film ever bestowed with that honor. Gong Li (Wallpaper 2). Gong Li widescreen wallpapers 2. Gong Li hot pictures and photoshoots collection 2. Gong Li beautiful and hot images gallery 2.