Xu Jinglei (Was born April 16, 1974 in Beijing) is an actress and director most famous in mainland China. Xu graduated from the Beijing Film Academy’s prestigious Performance Institute in 1997. Along with Zhao Wei, Zhou Xun, and Zhang Ziyi, the mainland Chinese media considers her a member of the Four Young Dan actresses (Chinese: 四小花旦).

Although not well known outside of China, she is popular domestically: in mid 2006, her Chinese language blog had the most incoming links of any blog in any language on the Internet, according to Technorati.

Success - Awards:

1. 2003 - Best Actress (for Spring Subway) at the 26th annual Popular Cinema Hundred Flowers Film Awards
2. 2003 - Best Actress (for Far From Home and I Love You) at the 9th annual Huabiao Film Awards
3. 2003 - Best Supporting Actress (for Far From Home) and Best New Female Director (for My Father and I) at the 23rd annual Chinese Golden Rooster Awards
4. 2004 - Best New Director and Best Actress (both for My Father and I) at the 4th annual Chinese Film Media Awards
5. 2004 - Silver Shell for Best Director for A Letter from an Unknown Woman at the 52nd annual Donostia-San Sebastián International Film Festival.

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