Famously rose from nude pictorials and soft-core sex films to mainstream success.
Her (subsequently fired) manager pulled her out of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" to do a commercial instead. Fellow Taiwanese and future co-star (in "Three Times") Chang Chen went on to play opposite her replacement, Zhang Ziyi.
Posed for renowned Singaporean photographer Leslie Kee for Kee's 2006 charity photo-book "Super Stars", dedicated to the victims of the 2004 Asian tsunami disaster, which consist of photographs of 300 Asian celebrities by Kee.
Speaks Cantonese.
She was once considered to play the role of Jiao Long in Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000).
Born in Taiwan.
Jury member of the Cannes International Film Festival 2009.
Jury member of the Berlinale 2008.
Both she and her husband have stated that they do not have plans to have children.