Vivian Wu
Vivian Wu is a sleek-featured, lushly beautiful actress whose roles embody elements of both modern and classic Asian culture. After appearing onscreen for the first time as a teenager, she almost left acting behind for a career in tourism until a key performance as an imperial concubine in the stately Best Picture Oscar winner "The Last Emperor" solidified her desire to act. While some of her follow-up roles, in the outlandish superhero thriller "The Guyver" and the campy "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III," marked a departure into fun fantasy, she made a return to earnest, introspective dramas with director Wayne Wang's sweeping mother-and-daughter mosaic "The Joy Luck Club." Another high-profile role came opposite Ewan McGregor in sensual and visually arresting "The Pillow Book." Wu twice played Soong May-ling, First Lady of the Republic of China from 1948 to 1975, first in the intimate family drama "The Soong Sisters" and again in the decidedly more political "The Founding of a Republic." In 2011, she collaborated with director Wayne Wang on the 19th-century period piece "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan." Along with her prestigious film roles, Wu appears regularly on television, on shows ranging from the ghoulish anthology "Tales from the Crypt" to the supernatural mystery "Ghost Whisperer."
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Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Knock Out | Unknown (Character) | - | 2019 |
97% |
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Dead Pigs | Candy Wang (Character) | - | 2018 |
No Score Yet |
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The House That Never Dies II | Xie Meiying (Character) | - | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Queens | Tina (Character) | - | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Who Is Undercover | Unknown (Character) | - | 2014 |
22% |
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan | Aunt (Character) | $1.3M | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Under The Influence | Unknown (Character) | - | 2011 |
No Score Yet |
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The Founding of a Republic | Soong May-ling (Character) | - | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shanghai Red |
Meili Zhu (Character), Producer |
$24.3K | 2006 |
77% |
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Eve & the Fire Horse | May Ling Eng (Character) | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet |
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Chinaman | Ling (Character) | - | 2005 |
50% |
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Beauty Remains | Ynig Zi (Character) | $3.2K | 2004 |
No Score Yet |
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Encrypt | Diana (Character) | - | 2003 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Red Skies | Wu Wen Li (Character) | - | 2002 |
91% |
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Dinner Rush | Nicole Chan (Character) | $634.6K | 2000 |
42% |
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8 1/2 Women | Kito (Character) | $417.5K | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Blindness | Natalie (Character) | $1.4K | 1998 |
No Score Yet |
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A Bright Shining Lie | Lee (Character) | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet |
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The Soong Sisters |
Soong May-ling / |
- | 1997 |
68% |
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The Pillow Book | Nagiko (Character) | $2.4M | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Vanishing Son III | Lili (Character) | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Vanishing Son | Lili (Character) | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Vanishing Son IV | Lili (Character) | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Vanishing Son II | Lili (Character) | - | 1994 |
19% |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III | Mitsu (Character) | $42.3M | 1993 |
45% |
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Heaven and Earth | Madame Lien (Character) | - | 1993 |
86% |
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The Joy Luck Club | An Mei's Mother (Character) | $32.8M | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Message From Nam | France Tran (Character) | - | 1993 |
33% |
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The Guyver | Mizky Segawa (Character) | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet |
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Shadow of China | Moo-Ling (Character) | $70.2K | 1991 |
83% |
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Iron & Silk | Ming (Character) | $15.3K | 1990 |
TV
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92% | 77% | The Afterparty | Vivian (Character) | 2023 |
60% | 59% | Away | Wang Lu (Character) | 2020 |
No Score Yet | 87% | Ghost Whisperer | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2007 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Strange World | Unknown (Character) | 1999 2002 |
No Score Yet | 85% | ER | Janet Wade (Guest Star) | 2000 |
No Score Yet | 86% | Millennium | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1998 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | April Dunbar (Guest Star) | 1993 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | JAG | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1995 |
82% | 90% | Tales From the Crypt | Unknown (Character) | 1995 |