Bai Ling (born
October 10, 1961) is a Chinese actress who has also
attained fame in the United States. Bai, her surname,
literally means "white". Ling, a common
Chinese given name, means clever.
Biography: Bai Ling was born in Chengdu, China.
Her father Bai Yuxiang (白玉祥) was a
musician in the People's Liberation Army, and later a
music teacher. Her mother Chen Binbin (陈彬彬)
was a literature teacher in Sichuan University, whose
father was a military officer of Kuomintang's army, and
thus was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution. In
early 1980's, Bai Ling's parents divorced, and both got
remarried later. Her mother was remarried to the writer
Xu Chi (徐迟), who got his national
reputation by his report titled Goldbach's Conjecture,
about Chinese mathematician Chen Jingrun.
Bai Ling has one elder sister Bai Jie (白洁),
who works for a tax bureau in China, and a younger
brother Bai Chen (白陈), who emigrated to
Japan and works for an American company.
Bai Ling has described herself as a very shy child who
found that she best expressed herself through acting and
performing. She has since said that acting allows one to
ignore how society tells one to behave and allows other
parts within oneself to be expressed. During the
Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1976), she learned how to
perform by participating in Eight model plays shows in
her elementary school. After her graduation of middle
school, she was sent to do labor work at Shuangliu (双流),
a suburb county of Chengdu, where the Chengdu Shuangliu
International Airport is located.
Before long, she managed to pass the People's Liberation
Army's exams, and became an "artist soldier"
at Linzhi, Tibet. Her main activity there was to
entertain with musical theater. She also served as a
nurse for a while in the army. Three years later, she
was discharged from the army, and joined People's Art
Theater of Chengdu, and became a professional actress.
She performance in a stage play Yueqin and Little Tiger
as a young man drew attention of movie director Teng
Wenji (滕文骥), and gained her first
movie role in On The Beach （1985）, as a
village girl who just became a factory worker, and
fought against her father's will for her to marry her
cousin.
In the later years, she appeared in several movies.
However, her rebelliousness caused friction with the
authority. She was accused of insubordination for using
tobacco and alcohol, was briefly hospitalized for
depression by the end of her army service, and partook
in the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989[citation
needed]. She temporarily moved to New York in 1991 to
attend New York University's film department as a
visiting scholar, but later obtained a special visa that
allowed her to remain in the United States until she
became a citizen in 1999.
Controversy: Many of the events in Bai's past
have only been verified by Bai herself; her past in
China is especially in doubt. No independent source
besides Ling has verified her claims of her time spent
in the Chinese army. The same is true of her time spent
in New York as a visiting scholar, when her age would
have made her a suspiciously young candidate for such an
honor, especially given the paucity of her academic
achievements. Finally, her participation in the
Tiananmen Square protests would have been quite
remarkable, given the fact that she attended the 1989
Moscow International Film Festival one month later as a
member of an official Chinese movie group.
Bai once claimed publicly that she was engaged to Nick
Carter, but Carter immediately denied it and the two
have never married. She has further claimed that she was
"cut out" of Star Wars due to her appearance
in Playboy magazine while also insinuating a large role
for her character; George Lucas denied this, citing the
facts that the edit had been done months before the
Playboy appearance was known and stating that Bai's role
was only a few lines of unimportant dialogue.
Additionally, Go Fug Yourself has documented Bai
numerous times appearing publicly in revealing outfits
that happen to "slip" and show her nipples in
pictures, despite the fact that she was attending as a
guest at events with no overt sexual content.
Acting career: Bai Ling graduated from Tisch at
New York University (NYU) and was immediately signed on
by famous Asian-American legendary Hollywood dancer, New
York socialite and talent manager, Jadin Wong.
Bai had previously appeared in several Chinese movies
when she was in China. In 1984, Ling appeared as a
fishing village girl in the movie On the Beach (海滩).
Later she filmed several other movies, including
Suspended Sentence (缓期执行),
Yueyue (月月), Tears in Suzhou (泪洒姑苏)
without much attention. Her role as a girl with
psychological disorder who had affair with her doctor
gained her fame, in the movie Arc Light (弧光)
directed by director Zhang Junzhao (张军钊).
She attended Moscow Movie Festival in 1989 due to this
role.
When she was in China, her photographs had been used in
magazines and calendars frequently, mostly with her
whole shoulder and upper breasts exposed, which was not
common in China at that time.
Since coming to the United States in 1991, she has
appeared in a number of American movies.
She began in the cult movie The Crow (1994), playing the
half-sister/lover of the main villain, Top Dollar. It
was her character that figures out the key to The Crow's
power. Hu guang was her most celebrated role in the
Chinese film industry, and Red Corner (1997) would be
considered her break-out role in English film.
She filmed scenes for Star Wars: Episode III (2005) as
Senator Bana Breemu, but her role was cut during
editing. She claimed that this was because of her posing
nude for the June 2005 issue of Playboy magazine, whose
appearance on newsstands coincided with the movie's May
2005 release, but director George Lucas denied this,
stating that the cut had been made more than a year
earlier. Her scenes were included in the "deleted
scenes" feature of the DVD release.
She was named one of People magazine's "50 Most
Beautiful People in the World" in 1998. She was
briefly said to be romantically linked to Backstreet Boy
Nick Carter. Rumors spread that Ling was engaged to him,
but Carter denied the rumors, saying they were
"just friends."
Later in 2005 Ling was a castmate of the VH1 program
called But Can They Sing?. The show gave several
non-singer celebrities an attempt at singing on every
episode and then allowed the audience and home viewers
to vote off one contestant each week. Bai Ling was most
famous for her risqué and raunchy get-ups and her
performances of Madonna's "Like a Virgin" and
The Ramones' "I Wanna Be Sedated". Bai was
eliminated just before the grand finale but was invited
back on the final week for a special performance of
Divinyls' I Touch Myself.
Ling was singled out for ridicule in an episode of The
Showbiz Show with David Spade in late 2005. Spade noted
that her high level of exposure in magazines and
tabloids, frequently being photographed at movie
premieres and parties, was not justified by the
relatively minor roles she has been playing, and he
implied that she was engaging in desperate
self-promotion.
She has most recently appeared in the show Lost as part
of Jack's flashbacks. Her character is Achara, who many
believe to be associated with the Dharma Initiative. She
has predictive powers, and is the artist of Jack's
tattoo reading "He resides among us, but he is not
one of us." Achara attests to predicting Jack's
leadership role on the island. She is expected to be on
for three episodes.
Personal life: In interviews with the New York
Daily News and FHM, Ling has said she is bisexual. It is
noted that in both China and the United States she had
many affairs with both men and women. Bai Ling is
currently dating Philadelphia businessman and scientist
Scott DeGirolamo.
Bai Ling lived in Singapore for the summer of 2006 and
frequently patronised a now-defunct gay dance club
called Happy now renamed as Play. She was apparently
performing research for her upcoming film, an
undisclosed film about the sex trade.
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