
Jacklyn Wu Chien-Lien
Jacklyn Wu Chien-Lien, 吳倩蓮, sometimes also spelt Jacqueline Wu Chien-Lien (born July 3, 1968), is a Taiwanese actress and singer. She is best remembered by Western audiences for her role in Ang Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), where she played the second of three sisters. She started her acting career when Johnnie To cast her opposite Andy Lau in A Moment of Romance (1990).
Her most acclaimed role to date is in Ann Hui's Eighteen Springs (1997), for which she received a Hong Kong Film Award Best Actress nomination and won the Hong Kong Film Critics Society Best Actress Award.
Wu has also acted in TV serials in Taiwan, China and Singapore. Since the turn of the millennium her output has dwindled. Her last film appearance was in 2004's Hong Kong movie Jiang Hu.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.245 |
Birthday | 1968-07-03 |
Place of Birth | Taipei, Taiwan |
Also Known As | Ng Sin-Lin, Wu Chien-Lien, Jacklyn Wu, 오천련, Jacklyn Ng Sin-Lin, 吳倩蓮, 吴倩莲, Jacklyn Wu Chien-Lien, |

1994

Eat Drink Man Woman
7.6/351
A retired and widowed Chinese master chef Chu and his family live in modern day Taipei, Taiwan. He lives with his three attractive daughters, all of w...
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Eat Drink Man Woman

1997

Eighteen Springs
7.1/17
In 1930s Shanghai, a young office girl falls in love with a factory worker in the same company.
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Eighteen Springs

2004

Triad Underworld
6.1/30
When Triad leader Hung considers leaving the world of the gangsters, a brutal war begins in the world of jiang-hu. Meanwhile, an internal conflict beg...
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Triad Underworld

2005

No Retreat
4/1
Po Fu Chen Zhou is a re-enactment of the most fascinating Chinese historical legend. Mainland famous actor Wu Jun stars as an ancient Conqueror while...
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No Retreat

1994

Treasure Hunt
5.5/18
A C.I.A. agent is assigned to go to Beijing to look for a hidden "treasure," which turns out to be a woman who has supernatural powers, and is the Nat...
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Treasure Hunt

1996

Beyond Hypothermia
6.4/32
A mysterious and highly successful hitwoman in Hong Kong is paid to assassinate top-level crime bosses. After beginning a relationship with a noodle v...
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Beyond Hypothermia

1990

A Moment of Romance
7/53
After a young Triad member takes an upper-class girl hostage during his escape from a jewelry heist, the two find themselves falling in love, in spite...
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A Moment of Romance

1994

God of Gamblers' Return
6.629/205
Ko Chun, the God of Gamblers, vows to keep his identity hidden while looking for the gangsters who murdered his pregnant wife.
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God of Gamblers' Return

2005

Banquet at Hongmen
4/1
A retelling of the fateful Feast at Swan Goose Gate, a historical event that involved two rebel leaders opposing the Qin dynasty.
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Banquet at Hongmen

2004

The Game of Killing
4.667/3
Killing games are quite popular among young people. Seven friends played this game in the bar. Unfortunately, the fake came true, and the game became...
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The Game of Killing

1999

Sorry Baby
6.4/29
The film tells of the attempts made by a Beijing van driver to obtain his wage arrears from travel agency boss even to the point of kidnapping the lat...
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Sorry Baby

1991

Casino Raiders II
5.9/13
Chicken Feet assists in running an honorable gambling den owned by the crippled Uncle Fan and his son Kit. Having previously tried to shut down the ga...
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Casino Raiders II

1993

Top Cool
0/0
After training in the United States, instructor Yu Da-peng comes back to Taiwan to train the first batch of pilots to receive new fighter jets.
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Top Cool

1996

A Moment of Romance III
5/11
Lau Tin Wai is a fighter pilot in the Chinese airforce who is forced to ditch in a field; he is taken in by the remote community of farmers who nurse...
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A Moment of Romance III

1997

Intruder
5.765/17
A mainland Chinese girl is, with her husband, a wanted criminal and they have to get to Hong Kong in order to stay alive and be free.
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Intruder

1993

A Moment of Romance II
5.8/13
A street racer encounters a mainland courtesan under an extraordinary circumstances. A moment of Romance between them follows after.
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A Moment of Romance II

1994

In Between
4.5/4
Three flatmates share a luxury flat. A philandering hairdresser meets his match. A young stockbroker meets his boss's soon-to-be-ex-wife. A pregnant l...
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In Between

1995

Only Fools Fall in Love
6.333/9
Poor girl meets rich boy as they quarrel over a food seller's once a year delicacy. His brother pays her to marry the brother so he can stage an assa...
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Only Fools Fall in Love

1993

The Bare-Footed Kid
6.156/32
A poor barefoot young man from the country arrives in the city to start work with the friend of his dead father.
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The Bare-Footed Kid

1994

To Live and Die in Tsimshatsui
6/3
An undercover cop finds himself tortured by his life among the triads. He’s locked into his job with no way out, and he’s starting to find the triad g...
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To Live and Die in Tsimshatsui

1994

The Returning
4.5/2
Chung has a book project that will make his career in publishing: a collector's edition of the work of Siu Lau, a reclusive woman who died mysteriousl...
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The Returning

1994

Beginner's Luck
4/1
Lau and Chow are roommates and they both dream to strike it rich at the races. They invent a device that allows them to eavesdrop on jockeys in traini...
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Beginner's Luck

1992

Three Summers
6/1
Three Summers opens, a young man with a difficult past leaves his present home in the city of Hong Kong and hearkens back to the fishing village of hi...
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Three Summers

1994

Love and the City
6/3
A young mobster falls in love with the young head gang's girlfriend.
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Love and the City

1994

Oh! My Three Guys....
3/4
Young gay men in Hong Kong. Hoi, Fa, and Kau have been friends since Third Form. They're now young gay adults sharing an apartment. Fa, who writes fil...
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Oh! My Three Guys....

1995

Dream Lover
2/3
Cheung Kar Shing, an inventor who participates in illegal road races in his spare time. Their relationship blossoms into romance, but when Kitty's fat...
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Dream Lover

1995

The Phantom Lover
5.536/14
In 1936 China, a nearly bankrupt drama troupe starts performing in a burned-out theater where the great actor Song Danping was killed. One of the acto...
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The Phantom Lover

1997

All's Well, Ends Well '97
6.071/35
Old Mr. Lo has three sons and the youngest one Lo Kung is his favorite. However, Kung does nothing but fool around all day long. Old Mr. Lo is very an...
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All's Well, Ends Well '97

1995

The Adventurers
5.6/17
After the murder of his parents and sister at the hands of the villianous gun-running billionaire Ray Lui, crack fighter pilot Yan vows revenge.
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The Adventurers

1995

Peace Hotel
5.8/36
After his wife's murder, Ping sets up a Peace Hotel to act as a sanctuary for anyone who needs protecting. One day, a mysterious woman shows up who se...
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Peace Hotel

1995

Mean Street Story
5/3
Miu (Ekin Cheng) grew up on Temple Street, where most of the gangsters in the area gathered, but he never hung around with them. When he accidentally...
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Mean Street Story

1991

The Royal Scoundrel
5.1/10
Beach Boy is a maverick cop whose unorthodox and incompetent ways are frowned upon by his uptight superiors. His inept partner Mr. Chow isn't much hel...
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The Royal Scoundrel

1997

Walk In
5.5/2
The "walk in" of the title refers to one person allowing another's soul to take possession of his body at the time of death.
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Walk In

1999

Four Chefs and a Feast
4/1
Fifty years after partners in a prestigious Shanghai restaurant split, others try to restore it to its glory.
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Four Chefs and a Feast

1997

Dragon Town Story
6.143/7
A woman works with an assassin to get revenge upon the man who murdered her family nine years earlier.
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Dragon Town Story

2003

The Stories of Han Dynasty
8/3
Po Fu Chen Zhou is a re-enactment of the most fascinating Chinese historical legend. Mainland famous actor Wu Jun stars as an ancient Conqueror while...
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The Stories of Han Dynasty

1994

How Deep Is Your Love
3.667/3
David's lover has died and his Lovers Sister is coming back from America to tie up loose ends. David who is gay soon finds he is in love with his exes...
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How Deep Is Your Love

1998

Ninth Happiness
5.5/8
Choi Hung village is full of innocents: people sing and work. The town beauty, Chi Wan, sees a stranger in the woods and falls in love, believing he's...
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Ninth Happiness


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