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Jacklyn Wu Chien-Lien

Jacklyn Wu Chien-Lien

Jacklyn Wu Chien-lien, sometimes also spelt Jacqueline Wu (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.

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Movies Starring Jacklyn Wu Chien-Lien (38)

No Retreat (2005)

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 this historical figure's loyal concubine is played by the Hong Kong beauty Kristy Yang. ...

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Banquet at Hongmen (2005)

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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Jiang Hu (2004)

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 begins between Hung and his best man, Left-Hand. ...

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The Game of Killing (2004)

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 a reality - they found that the person who was killed in the game every night must really die that night. ...

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The Stories of Han Dynasty (2003)

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 this historical figure's loyal concubine is played by the Hong Kong beauty Kristy Yang. Actors playing the ...

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Four Chefs and a Feast (1999)

Fifty years after partners in a prestigious Shanghai restaurant split, others try to restore it to its glory. ...

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Sorry Baby (1999)

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 latter's Singaporean girlfriend (Jacklyn Wu). ...

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Ninth Happiness (1998)

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 a fairy. He pursues her, keeping his real name secret, seeking advice from her sister, Heung, who suggest ...

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Intruder (1997)

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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Dragon Town Story (1997)

A woman works with an assassin to get revenge upon the man who murdered her family nine years earlier. ...

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Eighteen Springs (1997)

In 1930s Shanghai, a young office girl falls in love with a factory worker in the same company. ...

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Walk In (1997)

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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All's Well, Ends Well '97 (1997)

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 annoyed about this. The relationship between father and son is thus affected. So on Kung's birthday, his two ...

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Beyond Hypothermia (1996)

A mysterious and highly successful hitwoman in Hong Kong is paid to assassinate top-level crime bosses. After beginning a relationship with a noodle vendor, she decides to travel to South Korea to complete one last job. Unfortunately, the dead man's bodygu ...

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A Moment of Romance III (1996)

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 him back to health, here he meets Ting Siu Wo, a young woman who falls in love with him. ...

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Only Fools Fall in Love (1995)

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 assassination attempt. The attempt doesn't succeed but the man is reduced to the level of an idiot child and ...

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The Adventurers (1995)

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 Phantom Lover (1995)

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 actors, Wei Qing, starts seeing strange apparitions that could revive his troupe and deliver him to the same f ...

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Dream Lover (1995)

Cheung Ka Shing, an inventor who participates in illegal road races in his spare time. Their relationship blossoms into romance, but when Kitty's father goes into hiding and leaves behind over ten million dollars in unpaid debt, she leaves Hong Kong withou ...

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Mean Street Story (1995)

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 kills a mobster he is imprisoned, and his life is changed forever. Upon his release, everything around him ...

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Peace Hotel (1995)

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 seeks shelter from a gang hunting her. Vowing to never turn anyone away, Ping must decide whether to help th ...

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God of Gamblers' Return (1994)

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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Oh! My Three Guys.... (1994)

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 film scripts, has recently been jilted and is heart-broken. Hoi, who works at an ad agency where he's in the ...

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How Deep Is Your Love (1994)

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 sister. Marie (Peta-maree) and Selina share a room and it soon becomes obvious they have a drug problem. ...

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Beginner's Luck (1994)

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 training for tips. When they lost at the races, Lau's girlfriend threatens to leave, and Chow is stalked by the ...

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To Live and Die in Tsimshatsui (1994)

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 guys more honorable than his supremely despicable superior officer. ...

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Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)

Retired and widowed Chinese master chef Chu lives in modern day Taipei, with his three attractive daughters, all of whom are unattached. Soon, each daughter encounters a new man in their lives. When these new relationships blossom, stereotypes are broken a ...

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The Returning (1994)

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 mysteriously in 1949. An anonymous benefactor has maintained her house since her death; it's rumored to be haunted. C ...

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Love and the City (1994)

A young mobster falls in love with the young head gang's girlfriend. ...

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Treasure Hunt (1994)

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 National Treasure of China. ...

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In Between (1994)

Three directors deliver three stories about the love in the modern world. ...

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A Moment of Romance II (1993)

A street racer encounters a mainland courtesan under an extraordinary circumstances. A moment of Romance between them follows after. ...

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The Bare-Footed Kid (1993)

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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Top Cool (1993)

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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Three Summers (1992)

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 his youth. Against the backdrop of that locale, his young sister has recently befriended a group of adolesce ...

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Casino Raiders II (1991)

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 gambling den and take over by paralyzing Fan and framing Kit for another man's murder, ruthless local Triad ...

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The Royal Scoundrel (1991)

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 help, and is more concerned with taking care of his many, many children. On a routine stakeout, Beach Boy and ...

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A Moment of Romance (1990)

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 of the repercussions caused by their forbidden relationship. ...

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