If actresses from Taiwan, such as Wang Zuxian, Lin Qingxia and Wu Qianlian, can achieve fame, in some ways thanks to the golden age of the Hong Kong film industry, then there is another actress also from Taiwan who is popular in the trough of Hong Kong films, she is Lin Xilei.
Since entering the Hong Kong entertainment industry in 1999, in just a few years, she has cooperated with male stars such as Stephen Chow, Andy Lau, Zheng Yijian, Liu Qingyun and Zhang Jiahui, and is also one of the "crystal girls" who were in the limelight at that time.
Born in Taiwan in 1975, Lin Xilei immigrated to Los Angeles with her family at the age of 10. Don't look at the screen is known for "bold and bold", in reality, she is a graduate of the University of California in the United States, and has obtained a double degree in economics and literature. After returning to Taiwan, she was discovered by a star scout during a shopping trip, and began to work as an advertising model, and it was not long before she got the opportunity to change into an actress, and successively starred in "Joy Club" and "New Shaolin Five Ancestors". Although these two works did not make Lin Xilei famous at that time, they made her the favor of director Wang Jing.
In 1999, Lin Xilei was signed by Wang Jing's film company and officially entered the Hong Kong film industry with "Gambler vs Las Vegas". At that time, Wang Jing's "popularity" strategy for her was to make her a new generation of "sexy goddesses" after Guan Xiumei, Zhang Huiyi and Shu Qi, which can be proved by the several "seduction scenes" designed by Wang Jing in the film.
Subsequently, Lin Xilei starred in Wang Jing's other gambling film "King of a Thousand Kings 2000", in which she played the seductive female killer "First Love". It is this movie that tells us that there is a female artist like her who can combine purity and beauty in one, and her body is hot but not "dusty". In the same year, "Legend of the Furious Chariot 2" also appeared Lin Xilei's Qianzi, needless to say, it must be Wang Jing who recommended Lin Xilei to its director Liu Weiqiang (the best partner company of the film producer has Wang Jing's shares). In the top ten films in the 1999 Hong Kong film box office list, Lin Xilei participated in 3 films, and it is not surprising that she became popular in Hong Kong overnight.
However, "showing off sexiness" is not Lin Xilei's will, because it also invisibly brought her into the dilemma of career development, at that time, some media said that she was just a vase actor. To this end, Lin Xilei once said that during that time, she could hardly receive any films that could exercise her acting skills, the role type tended to be fixed, and she was not happy, and the "Underground Court" in 2000 was that she was "tricked" into participating, which directly made her have the idea of giving up being an artist.
Due to a coincidence, Lin Xilei switched to China Star Film Company and began to seek transformation opportunities. In the 2002 comedy film "Pork Chop Grand League", Lin Xilei incarnated as the "modern version of Zhong Wuyan", and Li Jiaxin, Karen Mok, and Guan Xiumei dressed up ugly and funny, at this time, she could not wait to take off the "vase" label on her body.
An important promoter of Lin Xilei's popularity is Wang Jing, but it is undoubtedly Du Qifeng who has made her acting career enter the second stage and completed the "transformation".
The first cooperation between the two was in 2001's "Full-time Killer", in fact, Miss Qin, played by Lin Xilei in this play, is still not completely out of the feeling of "vase", but in the later "Dark War 2", "I See the Ghost in My Left Eye", "Wen Que 2", "Iron Triangle" and "Regeneration", the role played by Lin Xilei began to have a greater breakthrough. From the female executive of the insurance company, the mysterious woman who runs desperately in the city, to the wife who is in a trance after losing her husband in a car accident, Lin Xilei's acting skills other than sexy have gradually begun to attract more people's attention.
In 2009, Lin Xilei was invited to join Star City Entertainment, founded by Yang Ziqiong and Zhang Jiazhen, to enter the mainland market with films such as "Gentleman of The Gentleman" and "Sword Rain", which according to Lin Xilei's words, these films are what she really wants to make. But for most media, they don't care too much about Lin Xilei's "acting skills", and her "lace news" has hype value. For example, in 2006, Lin Xilei's rivalry with Aaron Kwok in "Father and Son", as well as her love affair with rich businessmen and male stars, were all pulled out, which also made Lin Xilei tired of life in the entertainment industry.
In 2011, after filming the thriller "Deadly Heartbeat", Lin Xilei announced her marriage to the outside world. Her husband, Yang Chen, a Chinese-American, runs her own clothing industry in the United States. In the same year, their first daughter fell to the ground, so Lin Xilei also faded out of the entertainment circle, no longer taking over the drama, while helping her husband take care of business while teaching her husband and children. Their second daughter was born in 2014, and now the family of four is happy.
What is surprising is that the "song king" Xiao Jingteng and Lin Xilei have a personal relationship: the reason is that Lin Xilei and Yang Chen wanted to find a spokesperson for their own clothing brand, so they chose Xiao Jingteng. Later, with the frequent movement of the two parties in private, Lin Xilei asked her two daughters to recognize Xiao Jingteng as a dry father.
Although Lin Xilei is 44 years old today, she has a skill in freezing age and is still beautiful. The years have not left too obvious marks on her body, whether it is appearance or figure. Although she has stopped filming for the time being, I believe that many viewers still can't forget the shadows she left on the screen.