Qin Hailu

Qin Hailu (, born 11 August 1978) is a Chinese actress, screenwriter and singer. She has won Best Actress at the Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards, Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award and Golden Bauhinia Awards.

Early life and education Born with a movie projectionist father and an amateur actress mother, Qin learned to dance at the local Children's Palace when she was still a young child. At the age of 6, she was sent to a Peking Opera school in Yingkou, spending the next ten years training in a strict and harsh environment. She joined a local Peking opera theatre after completing her training. After working for a few years, Qin decided to audition for the Central Academy of Traditional Opera. Though she was late for the auditions, Chang Li, the teacher in charge of recruiting, who later became her instructor, saw for herself Qin's talents and offered her another chance. Yet, only after she had finished all of the tests, did Qin learn that she was at the Central Academy of Drama instead of at the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts, and enrolled into the school. In 1999, not long before graduation, Qin was cast by Fruit Chan in her first film.

Career Qin is best known for her role in the film Durian Durian (2000) by Fruit Chan, which portrays the experiences of a young girl and her sex worker neighbor in Hong Kong. The film won the Best Picture award at the 38th Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards, and Qin won the Best Actress and Best New Performer awards.

Thereafter, Qin starred in Yip Wai Man's film Everlasting Love (2002) with Hong Kong actor Daniel Chan. In the film, Qin plays a country girl who meets and falls in love with a young doctor (played by Chan) who is working for the United Nations. Despite much effort, the film failed to gain much attention and was not well received in theaters. Also in 2002, Qin starred in the film Chicken Poets by Chinese musical director Meng Jinghuai. In the film, Qin plays a colorblind country girl, who dreams of leaving her village in search of a new life. Qin also co-wrote and starred in the Taiwanese drama film Return Ticket (2011), based on a true story of a group of village women who rented a bus to go home for the holidays; which earned her the Best Original Screenplay award at the Golden Horse Awards.

Aside from films and dramas, Qin has also participated in numerous stage plays; including Red Rose and White Rose (2010), Four Generations Under One Roof (2012), and Green Snake (2013). In 2012, she won the Outstanding Actress at the China Golden Lion Award for Drama, the highest honor awarded for theater play, for her performance in Four Generations Under One Roof.

Qin starred alongside Zhou Xun in Red Sorghum (2014), based on Nobel laureate Mo Yan's 1986 novel of the same name. She was awarded the Best Supporting Actress at the Shanghai Television Festival for her performance. According to the jury, Qin was able to "handle well her role and figure with a characteristic artistic image."

In 2017, Qin launched her upcoming directorial debut Go It Alone at the Asian New Talent Award.

Filmography Film

Television series

Discography Albums Year English title Chinese title Language 2005 Sweet Aftertaste幸福回味 Mandarin 2007 One Way单行线

Awards and nominations Year Award Category Nominated work Result 200020th Hong Kong Film Award Best Actress Durian Durian Best New Performer 45th Asia-Pacific Film Festival Best Actress 2001 38th Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards Best New Performer 7th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award Best Actress 6th Golden Bauhinia Awards 46th Asia-Pacific Film Festival Chicken Poets 200255th Locarno FestivalBest Actress 2005 5th Chinese Film Media Awards Best Supporting ActressLove Battlefield 2006 13th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award Best Actress After This Our Exile 2011 2nd New York Chinese Film Festival Most Popular Asian Artist AwardThe Piano in a Factory 14th Huabiao Awards Outstanding Actress 28th Golden Rooster Awards Best Actress 48th Golden Horse Awards Best Leading Actress Best Original Screenplay Return Ticket 14th China Movie Channel Media AwardsBest Actress The Piano in a Factory 18th Beijing College Student Film Festival Return Ticket 2012 12th Chinese Film Media Awards The Piano in a Factory 3rd China Film Director's Guild Awards 31st Hong Kong Film Award Best Supporting Actress A Simple Life 2nd China Golden Lion Award for Drama Outstanding Actress Four Generations Under One Roof 2013 14th Golden Phoenix Awards Society Award Young Style 16th China Movie Channel Media AwardsBest Actress 2014 12th Changchun Film Festival 5th China Film Director's Guild Awards 14th Chinese Film Media Awards Best Supporting Actress 20th Shanghai Television FestivalBest Actress If By Life You Were Deceived 2015 Best Supporting Actress Red Sorghum2016 3rd Asia Rainbow TV Awards 35th Hong Kong Film Award Best Supporting Actress Tale of Three Cities 20174th The Actors of China Award Ceremony Best Actress (Sapphire) 2018 31st Flying Apsaras Award Outstanding Actress White Deer Plain 24th Shanghai Television FestivalBest Actress 24th Huading AwardsBest Actress (Period Drama) Lou Wai Lou 201926th Huading AwardsBest Actress The Legendary Tavern Best Actress (Period drama) Top Ten Favorite Actors Golden Bud – The Fourth Network Film And Television Festival Best ActressThe Legendary Tavern, Homeland 202026th Shanghai Television Festival Best ActressThe Legendary Tavern 32nd Flying Apsaras Awards Outstanding Actress 202127th Shanghai Television Festival Best Supporting ActressThe Stage 15th Asian Film Awards Best Supporting ActressCliff Walkers