Cheng Pei-pei
Chinese actress (1946–2024) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cheng Pei-pei (6 January 1946 – 17 July 2024) was a Hong Kong-American actress who started her career in 1963 and was considered cinema's first female action hero.[1][2] She was best known for King Hu's wuxia film Come Drink with Me (1966) and Ang Lee's wuxia film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000).[3]
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鄭佩佩 | |||||||||||||||
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Born | Jiang Pei-pei (1946-01-06)6 January 1946 Shanghai, China | ||||||||||||||
Died | 17 July 2024(2024-07-17) (aged 78) San Francisco Bay Area, California, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
Citizenship | United States | ||||||||||||||
Occupation | Actress | ||||||||||||||
Years active | 1964–2020 | ||||||||||||||
Spouse |
Yuan Wen-tung
(m. 1970; div. 1987) | ||||||||||||||
Children | 4, including Eugenia Yuan | ||||||||||||||
Awards | Hong Kong Film Awards – Best Supporting Actress 2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | ||||||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 鄭佩佩 | ||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 郑佩佩 | ||||||||||||||
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