Li Bingbing was born to a workers' family in a small town of Wuchang, Heilongjiang, China. She has a younger sister Li Xue. At 16, she enrolled in a secondary specialized school, Jixi Normal School (now Heilongjiang University Of Technology). Upon graduation in 1992, she became a probationary music teacher at an elementary school in Harbin for one year. In 1993, she enrolled in the Shanghai Theatre Academy to study acting.
Li gained critical acclaim for her role in Zhang Yuan's Seventeen Years (1999), for which she and Liu Lin shared the Best Actress Award at the 13th Singapore International Film Festival.[8] However, the film went unnoticed in China due to a domestic ban. In 2001, Li gained attention for starring in the popular television series Young Justice Bao. She followed with a number of wuxia television series, such as Taiji Prodigy and Eight Heroes, earning her a label of "action actress."
In 2004, Li achieved breakthrough with her performance in Feng Xiaogang's A World Without Thieves, for which she received a nomination of Best Supporting Actress at the Hundred Flowers Awards.[9] She then starred in Dayyan Eng's romantic comedy film Waiting Alone, for which she received her first Best Actress nomination at the Golden Rooster Awards.[10] In the same year, her sister, Li Xue, became her manager.
In 2013, Li attended the 4th Annual US-China Film Summit and received the East-West Talent Award.[18][19] Hollywood magazine Variety also named her Asian Star of the Year.[20] The following year, Li featured in Transformers: Age of Extinction, the fourth installment of the film franchise.[21] This helped solidify her success overseas.[22]
In 2015, she was cast in 3D science fictionthrillerNest (also known as Guardians of the Tomb), a Chinese-Australian co-production that was finally released in January 2018.[23] The same year, it was announced that Li would play China's first female superhero in upcoming film Realm, written by Stan Lee.[24]
Li Bingbing has established L.O.V.E, a charitable organization dedicated to the promotion of a positive, environmentally responsible lifestyle. She is also one of the founders of the two-year One Million-Tree Forest project, launched in efforts to change the climate environment and help local residents of Gansu Province, Southwest China, to increase their incomes.[28] Her commitment to green and charitable causes has earned her the recognition as "the most influential global ambassador" from World Wildlife Fund.[29]
On 24 July 2013, it was reported that Li has a godfather Wang Lin,[30] a qigong and psi practitioner.[31] Li went to visit Wang for help to cure her mother of her disease.[30]
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