Lisa Lu

Lisa Lu
Lu in 1960.
Chinese name	盧燕 (traditional)
Chinese name	卢燕 (simplified)
Pinyin	Lú Yàn (Mandarin)
Jyutping	Lou4 Jin3 (Cantonese)
Birth name	盧萍香 (Lú Píngxiāng)
Born	(1927-01-19) 19 January 1927 Peking, Republic of China
Occupation	actress, documentary producer
Years active	1958 - present
Children	Lucia Hwong
Ancestry	Zhongshan, Guangdong
Awards Golden Horse Awards Best Actress 1970 The Arch 1975 The Empress Dowager Best Supporting Actress 1972 The 14 Amazons

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Lu.

Lisa Lu (Chinese: 盧燕; born January 19, 1927) is a Chinese-born American actress and singer. She won the Golden Horse Awards three times in the 1970s.

Life and career

Lu was born in Peking, China (now Beijing, China). Beginning in her teens, she was active in Chinese opera, or Kunqu, before emigrating to the United States. Beginning in the 1950s, she enjoyed a long career in television in the United States.

During the 1958-1959 television season, she had a recurring role as Miss Mandarin on the cult western show Yancy Derringer, set in New Orleans in 1868. In 1961 she had a recurring role as "Hey Girl" on the television series Have Gun – Will Travel. She made numerous other appearances on television, with guest starring roles on Bonanza, The Big Valley, The Richard Boone Show, The Virginian, Hawaiian Eye, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Rebel, and other shows.

In 1960, she was the female lead in the antiwar film, The Mountain Road, which starred James Stewart and which was based on the novel of the same name by the China war correspondent Theodore H. White, who had since turned to reporting on U.S. politics. Her film career took off in the 1970s with supporting roles in films like Demon Seed and Peter Bogdanovich's Saint Jack. During this time, she received three Best Actress Golden Horse Awards for her Chinese-language films The Arch, The Empress Dowager, and The Fourteen Amazons.

For the remainder of her career, Lu alternated between theater and film. She may be best known by English-speaking audiences for her roles in The Last Emperor (1987), Noble House (1988 television miniseries), and The Joy Luck Club (1993). In addition to her work in film, theater, and television, she is known for narrating and producing a number of documentaries.

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1958	Panda and the Magic Serpent	Bai-Niang
1960	The Mountain Road	Madame Sue-mei Hung
1962	Rider on a Dead Horse	Ming Kwai
1962	Womanhunt	Li Sheng
1970	The Arch (董夫人)	Madame Tung	Won—Golden Horse Award for Best Actress
1972	The 14 Amazons (十四女英豪)	She Saihua	Won—Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actress
1973	Terror in the Wax Museum	Madame Yang
1975	The Empress Dowager (傾國傾城)	Empress Dowager Cixi	Won—Golden Horse Award for Best Actress
1976	The Last Tempest (瀛台泣血)	Empress Dowager Cixi
1976	The Star (星語)	Chen Lianyu
1977	The Eternal Love (永恆的愛)
1977	Demon Seed	Soon Yen
1979	Saint Jack	Mrs. Yates
1982	Hammett	Miss Cameron's Assistant
1982	Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder	Sister Marie
1983	Sewing Woman		Narrator
1986	Tai-Pan	Ah Gip
1987	The Last Emperor (末代皇帝溥儀)	Empress Dowager Cixi
1989	The Last Aristocrats (最後的貴族)
1989	The Heroine in Northeast (關東女俠)	Yi Pinhong
1990	Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes	Mrs. Sato
1993	The Joy Luck Club	An-mei Hsu
1993	Temptation of a Monk (誘僧)	Shi's Mother
1994	I Love Trouble	Mrs. Virginia Hervey
1998	Blindness	Mrs. Hong
2000	Sworn Revenge (撞鬼你之血光之災)	Ling
2002	Tomato and Eggs	Mrs. Wang
2005	The Beauty Remains (美人依舊)	Woman gambler
2006	The Postmodern Life of My Aunt (姨媽的後現代生活)	Mrs. Shui
2007	Invisible Target (男兒本色)	Wai King-ho's grandmother
2007	Lust, Caution (色，戒)	Mahjong partner of Aunt
2009	Dim Sum Funeral	Mrs. Xiao
2009	2012	Grandmother Sonam
2010	Somewhere	Chinese journalist
2010	Apart Together (團圓)	Qiao Yu'e
2012	Dangerous Liaisons (危險關係)	Madam Du Ruixue

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1960	The Rebel - "Blind Marriage"	Quong Lia	played daughter of Quong Lee (Philip Ahn)
1961	Bonanza - "Day of the Dragon"	Su Ling	appeared alongside Philip Ahn, Benson Fong, Richard Loo, and Victor Sen Yung
1962	Cheyenne - "Pocket Full of Stars"	Mei Ling
1968	The Big Valley - "Run of the Cat"	Chinese girl
1986	China Hand
1988	Noble House	Ah Tam
2001	NYPD Blue - "Fools Russian"
2002	Qianlong Dynasty (乾隆王朝)	Empress Dowager Chongqing
2011 2012 2015	General Hospital	Mrs. Yi

Chinese opera

Lu attempted to popularize Chinese opera in the United States, touring universities and performing in English.

Recordings

• The Reunion, a Peking Opera. with Lisa Lu and K.S. Chen, Lyrichord, 1972

External links

• Lisa Lu at the Internet Movie Database
• Lisa Lu at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase
• Lisa Lu at AllMovie
• Lisa Lu at Rotten Tomatoes
• her biography in Chinese
• Biography at Jiao Tong Universities Alumni Foundation of America

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