Diana Lin
Birthday: Born in 1962-01-01 in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China
Deathday: Alive
Diana Lin (also called Xiaojie Lin) is a Chinese Australian actress. For her performance in Under the Skin she was nominated for the 1994 AFI Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Television Drama. Lin began her career in China where from 14 years old she started training for the Chinese Beijing Opera Company as a singer before going to Shanghai and taking up acting with the city's Theatre Academy. She started taking on film roles such as Shang Jie with the Pearl River Film Studio in Guangzhou. She migrated to Australia in the early 1990s, basing herself in Sydney. Her first featured role there was in the fifth episode of 1993's anthology TV series Under The Skin. Soon after she moved away from acting due to the lack of good Asian roles. She made her return to acting in The Family Law. She then went on to land a major role in the 2019 American film The Farewell.
TV Credits
漫长的季节
Character: Luo Meisu
The 12-episode series follows Wang Xiang, an ex-train driver who had worked his whole life at the steel plant in a fictional small town in North China, as he attempts to solve the mystery behind a brutal murder during the autumn of 1998. For more than 20 years, the murder has haunted him and other people who worked at the steel plant as they struggled to come to terms with the loss they’ve experienced....
Interior Chinatown
Character: Lily Wu
Willis Wu, a background character trapped in a police procedural, tries to find his way into the larger story–and along the way discovers secrets about the strange world he inhabits and his family's buried history....
四喜
Character: Yue Xiu'e
After the sudden loss of her husband, Mingzhu, pregnant and newly married, is forced to confront hidden family secrets. With strength and resilience, she faces numerous challenges and works to rebuild her life, bringing her family together in the process....
The Family Law
Character: Maisy
Through the eyes of 14-year-old Benjamin, and set over the course of a long, hot, Queensland summer, the Law family navigate a series of sometimes disastrous events which become memorable milestones, and serve as a reminder that at the end of the day family can sometimes feel more like a sentence than a choice....
Movie Credits
人生没有单行道
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The Portable Door
Character: Mrs. Dao
Paul and Sophie, interns at a mysterious London firm, become steadily aware their employers Humphrey and Dennis are anything but conventional – they are disrupting the world of magic by bringing modern corporate strategy to ancient magical practices....
The Portable Door
Character: Mrs. Dao (Bank of the Dead)
Paul and Sophie, interns at a mysterious London firm, become steadily aware their employers Humphrey and Dennis are anything but conventional – they are disrupting the world of magic by bringing modern corporate strategy to ancient magical practices....
Cops and Desperados
Character: 梅容
A group of criminals call themselves the "Northern Detachment". They commit several major crimes on the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway. The Public Security Bureau sends Ma Xiaolong after them....
Big World
Character: Chen Suqun
Liu Chunhe, suffering from cerebral palsy, bravely breaks through the shackles of body and mind to realize the dream stage for his grandmother, while trying to find the coordinates of his own life. After experiencing a summer transformation, he finally embarked on a new journey....
The Farewell
Character: Lu Jian
A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time....
Australia Day
Character: Madam
On Australia's most controversial national holiday, the lives of three Australians from diverse cultural backgrounds will collide, illuminating contemporary issues of racial tension and national identity that simmer beneath the surface of modern Australia....
Women's Story
Character: Pregnant Woman
Women’s Story was the first work to garner international acclaim for Peng Xiaolian. It is about three women living in China’s northern countryside and straightforwardly raises the issue of gender inequality hidden in a communist society....
Business Circles
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Lonely Blue Night
Character: Mother
The consequences of a mother's decision to leave her daughter in the care of an American homestay family are slowly unearthed....
Country Folk
Character: 白银
Directed by Bingliu Hu....
警官与侦探
Character:
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Suicide Club in Southeast Asia
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A suicide club appeared in a Southeast Asia country, anyone signed in would guarantee a pain-free death, but there would be no turning back once you joined. To expose its existence to the public, Yu Sha, a journalist joined this club....