Liu Xiaoqing (born 30 October 1955[1]) is a Chinese actress and businesswoman.[2] She was one of the leading actresses in China in the 1980s.
In her early days Liu worked as a farm labourer, then as a propagandist for the People's Liberation Army and later a stage actor for the Chengdu Military Drama Group.[3][5]
Liu acted in mainland Chinese films before she turned 30 — The Great Wall of the South China Sea (1976),[3] What a Family (1979) and The Little Flower (1980).[6] Her breakthrough role was the ruthless Qing Dynasty Empress Dowager Cixi in The Burning of the Imperial Palace (1983) and Reign Behind the Curtain (1984). Her portrayal of Cixi won her numerous awards in Chinese film festivals[citation needed] and she later reprised the role in two unrelated films, including Li Lianying: The Imperial Eunuch (1991). She won Best Actress at the Hundred Flowers Award for her role as Hua Jinzhi in The Savage Land, filmed in 1981 but not released until 1987,[3] and again for her role in Hibiscus Town (1986).[7] She holds a record for having won the most number of awards in the actress categories of the Hundred Flowers Award, with three Best Actress and one Best Supporting Actress.[8]
Liu left the entertainment industry in the 1990s to focus on business,[8] but later returned to acting in the mid 2000s. One of her latest films was Chunhua (also titled Plastic Flower, released in 2004), in which she played the titular role, Chunhua. She performed in a stage play, The Last Night of Tapan Chin, in China and Taiwan from 2005 to 2008.[4][9][10][11]
Liu published a short autobiography I Did It My Way in 1983.[12] She became one of the richest people in China, appearing at 45 on Forbes' list of the 50 richest Chinese businessmen and businesswomen in 1999.[2] She promoted her success by publishing a book titled From A Movie Star to A Billionaire. She was arrested for tax evasion in connection with her company, Beijing Xiaoqing Culture and Arts Company Ltd., in 2002, was fined 7.1 million yuan, and imprisoned for a year.
In 2012 Liu Xiaoqing played Sai Jinhua in a performance of the play The Beauty (S: 风华绝代, T: 風華絕代, P: Fēnghuá Juédài).
who turns 60 years old on October 30 this year. One of the leading actresses in China in the 1980s and now abusiness woman . Earlier she worked as farm labourer then as a propagandist for the People’s Liberation Army and later as a stage actress for the Chengdu Military Drama Group. At the age of 30 she acted mainly mainland films and won numerous awards .
She was also recently named the most beautiful woman in the world over 50 by Japnese TV. Add on : Xiaoqing is a business woman and a published author. In 1999, she appeared on Forbes’ list of the 50 richest Chinese businessmen and businesswomen in the world. Ms. Liu is called a ‘frozen beauty’ in China for her everlasting beauty. She said that she’s never had any plastic surgery. Will the lie detector tell us whether Ms. Liu had any help in keeping her looks?
Chinese actress who is also a business woman now is a definition to an everlasting beauty. The actress was born on 1955 and the current picture of Xiaoqing speaks for itself.
The actress claimed that she has never undergone a plastic surgery. She even appeared on Forbe’s list of 50 richest Chinese businessmen and businesswomen in the world in 1999.
This has been seen for a period of time now that Asian women age slower than the women but in Liu’s case, we think money could have been a greatest support too.
“I said to President Obama, ‘I’m the best ever actress in the East — even better than Elizabeth Taylor,’” Liu Xiaoqing says matter of factly. “He just replied, ‘yes, yes, indeed.’”
In the pantheon of great Chinese actresses, few names come as revered as Liu. The star of more than 60 films and TV shows, Madame Liu, as she likes to be called, has a résumé that includes four marriages, once being China’s richest woman and a jail term for tax evasion. Now 61 years young, she is keen to discuss her latest role over dinner at Beijing’s Four Seasons Hotel. It’s a role she has already played four times over.
“The tale of Empress Wu is like jade,” she tells TIME, dressed in a black tee bearing the slogan ”Little Cutie” over a green military-style shirt. “We’re on a treasure hunt for this most precious of treasures, unraveling the mysteries of that period and person.”
That person is Wu Zetian, the only woman to have ever ruled China, and that period is the Tang Dynasty (AD618 to 906). Liu is due to reprise the role in a 14-part series entitled Empress, due to hit American screens late next year...
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