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Cheng Pei-Pei
Born: 4th Dec 1946 Shanghai, China - Died 17th Jul 2024
Dept: Acting
Cheng Pei-Pei (Chinese: 鄭佩佩, December 4, 1946–July 17, 2024) was an actress best known for her performance in the seminal 1966 King Hu wuxia film Come Drink with Me. It made her a contender for one of the first female action star. She continued to play expert swordswomen in a number of films throughout the 1960s. In 2000, she returned to international attention with her role as Jade Fox in Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. She followed this up with her portrayal of Long Po in the 2004 television miniseries Watery Moon, Hollow Sky, which was shown on Asian-American television as Paradise. She worked for Zhouyi Media in mainland China.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 142
Film: 98 (69%)
Television: 44 (31%)
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Filmography
Original title: 大俠胡金銓 第一部曲─先知曾經來過
2022
The life of the epoch-making master of martial arts cinema, King Hu. ... view
Character:
Self
2020
When the Emperor of China issues a decree that one man per family must serve in the Imperial Chinese Army to defend the country from Huns, Hua Mulan, ... view
Character:
The Matchmaker
2019
The fantastic story of how an ancient martial art, Chinese kung fu, conquered the world through the hundreds of films that were produced in Hong Kong ... view
Character:
Self
Original title: 童童的风铃密室
2019
Based on a Thai ghost story of Kuman Thong, the film revolves around a woman who has caused the death of her young brother a long time ago. When she r ... view
Character:
Qin Yi
2019
In A New York Minute follows three Asian women, each at a different stage in their life as they deal with their own personal struggles. Amy is haunted ... view
Character:
Amy's Mother
Original title: 唐伯虎点秋香 2019
2019
After using a new technological invention, three friends find themselves trapped inside the 1993 film FLIRTING SCHOLAR. Upon discovering that the lea ... view
Character:
Mistress Hua
2017
A devoted wife and mother is forced to reassess her reverence for her husband after she finds another woman’s thong in his laundry. ... view
Character:
Maria
Aug 2017 (first aired)
Xia Tian is a young woman, who is still single. Her sister is about to be married and one day Xia Tian overhears her mother talking to her sister, tha ... view
Character:
Grandma (52 ep.)
May 2017 (first aired)
After discovering his daughter has abandoned her studies, a strict father forces her under rigid control. When he loses everything and moves to the co ... view
Character:
Niu Zhenzhen (40 ep.)
2016
Indigenous Detective Jay Swan arrives in the frontier town of Goldstone on a missing persons inquiry. What seems like a simple investigation unearths ... view
Character:
Mrs. Lao
Original title: Dragon Girls! Les amazones de la pop culture asiatique
2016
Yves Montmayeur takes Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as the starting point for his study of the new female warrior in Asian pop culture. From Beijing ... view
Character:
Herself
Original title: 打開我天空
2016
An omnibus of 4 short stories, each of them occurring in different corners of our society, but all of which encompass the same themes: courage, determ ... view
Character:
(segment "The Lighthouse of My Life")
Original title: 搏擊迷城
2015
Female Mongolian wrestler, Na Ren, was invited to participate in a women’s wrestling show in Japan. The show host, Boss, instantaneously changed the ... view
Character:
Yuanyuan
Jun 2015 (first aired)
Wu Xie is an antique shop owner who comes from a family of tomb raiders. As he continues the family trade with his team of tomb raiders, he finds lost ... view
Character:
Granny Huo (12 ep.)
Original title: 黎明之眼
2014
A remake in part of his earlier "comfort women" film (Comfort Women, 1994), which explored the exploitation of various Chinese women forced to provide ... view
Character:
2014
A young man of Chinese-Cambodian descent dies, leaving behind his isolated mother and his lover of four years. Though the two don't share a language, ... view
Character:
Junn
Character:
Herself
Oct 2013 (first aired)
The drama follows Chang Qing, a kind-hearted girl who grows into a strong, independent woman after enduring family tragedies. Pushed out of her own fa ... view
Character:
Mother Rong (50 ep.)
Jul 2013 (first aired)
A retelling of the story of the strong willed Hua Mulan, who ends up joining an all male army in place of her elderly father. ... view
Character:
Grandma Xia (57 ep.)
Original title: 异度迷局
2012
A doctor moves his family into a mansion. His wife hears weird noises at midnight, then his daughter disappears mysteriously. His detective friend beg ... view
Character:
Character:
Self
Original title: 極速天使
2011
After being recruited by a race car driver coach, a female taxi driver joins the Speed Angels racing team. ... view
Character:
Auntie Fen
Original title: 回马枪
2011
A comedic crime drama starring Echoes of the Rainbow actor Simon Yam. In Coming Back, which was shot in Mandarin, Yam plays a painter who restores art ... view
Character:
God Ni
Original title: 杨门女将之军令如山
2011
In 11th century China, the Emperor Renzong reigns his country poorly, neglecting state affairs while the government sinks into corruption and war rage ... view
Character:
She Taijun
Original title: 禦前侍衛
2011
When internal strife leads to a conspiracy to assassinate the emperor, it is up to a group of loyal warriors to protect the emperor and defend the kin ... view
Character:
2011
A journey through a cultural minefield, navigating the divide between the traditional values of immigrant parents and the contemporary aspirations of ... view
Character:
Mrs Chu
Original title: 唐伯虎點秋香2之四大才子
2010
Tang Bohu's mother sends him to study at Qingfeng Monastery, but he can't bear the austere and monotonous life at the monastery. So, his three good fr ... view
Character:
Madame Wah
Original title: 財神到
2010
"Here Comes Fortune" is about the God of Fortune coming down from heaven to spread some love and wealth to humans in need. The movie is developed by t ... view
Character:
Mrs Liang
Original title: 頭七還魂夜
2009
Many people believe when a person dies, his soul returns on the 7th night. After Shun was brutally murdered, his spirit returned to possess his 13 yea ... view
Character:
Madam Lee
Original title: 泰山功夫
2009
Liu Wenhu, the owner of the Liu's Martial Arts Hall in Mount Tai, sets up competitions every year with big money as bait. For several years in a row, ... view
Character:
2009
When a teenager, Chun-Li witnesses the kidnapping of her father by wealthy crime lord M. Bison. When she grows up, she goes on a quest for vengeance a ... view
Character:
Zhilan
Original title: 愛情故事
2009
This is about a love triangle between Ling (Elanne Kwong), June (Janice Man) and Rex (Rex Ho). Ling hides her long battle with leukaemia from her best ... view
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2008
China is in unrest, as the Republic falls prey to Warlords like Kahn Xin, who holds an entire province hostage to the opium trade—and destroys all w ... view
Character:
Myling
Aug 2008 (first aired)
China is in unrest, as the Republic falls prey to Warlords like Kahn Xin, who holds an entire province hostage to the opium trade—and destroys all w ... view
Character:
Myling (2 ep.)
Original title: Eine Liebe im Zeichen des Drachen
2008
In Singapore, successful businessman Alexander falls in love with his new assistant Li Lin. Their love is soon put to test when his ex-fiancée Anna's ... view
Character:
Tham
Dec 2007 (first aired)
Shui Bing Xin is the talented and beautiful daughter of the Minister of War who is betrothed to her foster brother Hou Xiao. However, the reappearance ... view
Character:
铁夫人 (1 ep.)
2007
Jason and his wife, Sarah, leave their adopted home of Shanghai and travel to Vancouver, British Columbia, for his uncle's funeral, staying with his A ... view
Character:
Aunt Mei
2007
Four employees of Island Fisheries come to a sun-scorched, isolated island to negotiate fishing rights with the sullen, paranoid islanders who have go ... view
Character:
Lia
2007
Coco leads an intense life in the lively subculture of the boomtown Shanghai. It revolves around endless nights spent in the Shanghai club and art sce ... view
Character:
Conny
2006
The followup to BOOK AND SWORD, detailing further conflict between the Red Flower Society and the Qing Dynasty. ... view
Character:
Original title: Barbara Wood - Das Haus der Harmonie
2005
A beautiful Chinese girl, Meiling, has a forbidden love affair with a young American man in Singapore. He leaves Singapore and never returns. Meiling ... view
Character:
Amah
2005
Revisit 100 years of Chinese cinema through the RTHK TV program A Century of Light and Shadow. Aired in 2005, this interesting and informative documen ... view
Character:
Self
Aug 2004 (first aired)
After 500 years in a secluded valley, the gifted young heirs of a once-powerful clan that has become a legend in the martial arts world begin to ventu ... view
Character:
Granny Long (30 ep.)
Original title: 天作之盒
2004
Joanna wanted to become a physician. After she meets Albert, a cancer survivor and fellow doctor, her life changes. Albert's cancer has returned. He e ... view
Character:
Joanna's Mom
Original title: 性感都市
2004
We have Carina Lau has Selina the lead actress who is a psychoanalyst, who hang out with her friends (Athena Chu has a erotic story for woman, Yoyo Mu ... view
Character:
Selina's mom
Feb 2004 (first aired)
Taking place in about 294 A.D., during the Western Jin era, it is the story of three young men, the Tong brothers, who live with their clan and family ... view
Character:
龙婆 (30 ep.)
2003
A look at the martial arts and kung fu cinema of Hong Kong ... view
Character:
Self
Original title: 电影香江：俪影倾情
2003
Hong Kong cinemas had a wide range of glamorous female stars during the golden age of the 60's and 70's. The series will take the audience on a sentim ... view
Character:
Self
2003
A full journey from the beginning of "Swordplay" movies in Shanghai, growth in Hong Kong cinemas in the 60's and 70's and Ang Lee's epic "Crouching Ti ... view
Character:
Self
Dec 2002 (first aired)
"Springs of Life" is a story that begins in the '50s and one that spans over a period of 30 years. The dramedy is a rare mix of humour and seriousness ... view
Character:
Yun Shu Heng (1 ep.)
Original title: 赤裸特工
2002
A mysterious woman, known as Madame M, kidnaps forty pre-teen girls and transports them to a remote island to train them as the most deadly assassins. ... view
Character:
Faye Ching
2002
Hosted by Samuel L. Jackson, this in-depth documentary offers viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the history of the martial arts film -- from the gen ... view
Character:
Self
Apr 2002 (first aired)
Book and Sword, Gratitude and Revenge is a television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel The Book and the Sword. The series was first broadcast on ... view
Character:
Empress Dowager Chongqing (46 ep.)
2002
Horse thief Luk Ching-Yang and his wife Liu Lu-Yian. After Luk was betrayed by his brother Kiu Hung, Lu-Yian left him. They reunite 20 years later, al ... view
Character:
Liu Ru Yan
Original title: 书剑恩仇录
2002
Follows the Battle against the Qing Dynasty and its Manchu ruler Chen Long, the opposition being a Han lead organization called 'The Red Flower Societ ... view
Character:
Huang Tai Hou
2001
Female characters in martial arts films from Hong Kong: the women who played them and the directors who wrote the scenarios and directed the films. ... view
Character:
Self
Original title: Wu shen hei xia
2001
Fu Tien-Ming is the subject of an experiment that turns him into the hero known as Shadow Mask. When his arch nemesis, Red Goddess, escapes from priso ... view
Character:
Red Goddess
May 2001 (first aired)
Legendary Fighter: Yang's Heroine is a 2001 Chinese costume drama produced by Chinese Entertainment Shanghai Limited in conjunction with Taiwan Televi ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (40 ep.)
Original title: 薰衣草
2000
A young woman is devastated after her fiance's death. She lives in isolation and her only daily treat is sending a balloon with a message to her late ... view
Character:
Md Tung
Original title: 卧虎藏龍
2000
Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physically-skilled, teenage nobleman's daughter, who is at ... view
Character:
Jade Fox
Original title: 生死拳速
2000
Cheuk is a mainland security officer who's thrown into a race against the clock when he discovers a man is holding an entire school hostage in exchang ... view
Character:
Brian's mother
Original title: 真心話
1999
Sam, a fresh graduate from Singapore, works as a journalist in Hong Kong to gain wider exposure in life. He chances upon Jane, an intriguing mainland ... view
Character:
Sam's mother
Original title: 中華英雄
1999
After Hero Hua marries Jade and leaves her in China, he goes to America to work as a servant and rebels against cruel labour conditions. Jade soon joi ... view
Character:
Hero's Mother
Jun 1999 (first aired)
A young girl, Hua Mulan decides to pretend to be a man in order to stop her sickly old father from being called up for the army. She fools everyone bu ... view
Character:
李亮的母亲 (48 ep.)
Original title: 四個廚師一圍菜
1999
Fifty years after partners in a prestigious Shanghai restaurant split, others try to restore it to its glory. ... view
Character:
Jan 1999 (first aired)
The divine catcher Tong Lin comes to Gubeikou in search of his missing wife. He saves Meikei Chi, Yan Jinwaner, and others from bandits and later stay ... view
Character:
老板娘 (55 ep.)
Original title: 運財五福星
1996
How to Meet the Lucky Stars is a 1996 Hong Kong film and the final film in the Lucky Stars film series. Featuring the "Lucky Stars" Sammo Hung (in a s ... view
Character:
Original title: 黃飛鴻之辛亥革命
1996
In late Qing, restless and upheavals occurred everywhere in China. So Hat Yee, the leader of a patriotic society, together with the sup-porters starte ... view
Character:
Jan 1995 (first aired)
The Wong Fei Hung Series is a 1995 to 1996 Hong Kong–Chinese television film series of five stories about Wong Fei-hung, a Chinese martial artist an ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (20 ep.)
Original title: 亂世超人
1994
The young cartoonist Gao Dewei, played by Wu Zhenyu, has a cowardly character and a strict tutor. He uses the drawing of Superman to express his feeli ... view
Character:
Original title: The Gods Must Be Crazy V
1994
Hijinks ensue when N!xau the Bushman travels to Beijing, where he's recruited to accompany a track team on a week-long survival race through the Chine ... view
Character:
Original title: 詠春
1994
Martial arts expert Wing Chun battles bandits in this magical film that provides as many laughs as it does wallops. Besides horse thieves, Wing Chun m ... view
Character:
Ng Mui
Original title: 神鳳苗翠花
1994
Kung Fu Mistress is a Hong Kong Martial Arts movie starring Kara Hui. ... view
Character:
Original title: 唐伯虎點秋香
1993
A scholar in search of true love. Disguising himself as a houseboy, he indentures himself to a rich family in order to pursue the ravishing servant gi ... view
Character:
Madame Wah
Original title: 七小福
1988
This is a story about the Peking Opera School that Jackie Chan, Samo Hung and Yuen Biao attended as young men. The story is about their teacher Master ... view
Character:
Master Cheng
May 1984 (first aired)
In the early years of the Republic of China, the great powers ran rampant. The Japanese invaded and the power of the Jingwu Sect gradually weakened. I ... view
Character:
陈士超 (30 ep.)
Original title: 天下第一
1983
It's the 10th century BC, the emperor is not well, and the medicines he is receiving from con artist "Immortal Li" are in reality only making him wors ... view
Character:
Original title: 烈日女娃人
1982
Six female POWs lead an escape from a North Vietnamese prison camp, then join the local rebel forces to plan an attack to wipe out the camp and free t ... view
Character:
Jo 'Lady Piranha' Chan
Original title: 虎辮子
1974
The Empress Dowager flees when the allied forces descend upon the capital. During an attack by bandits, her jewels are lost in the mountains. Ten year ... view
Character:
Hu Pien-Tze
Original title: 铁娃
1973
Story is about how a revolutionist, played by Cheng Pei Pei, taking on the identity of a Captain's (Ou Wei) long lost sister who is actually dead. Che ... view
Character:
Shao Ying
Original title: 玉女嬉春
1972
Two sisters, Ching-ping (Irene Chen I-ling) and Pai-hung (Betty Ting Pei) struggle to find a workable act after their magician father and younger sist ... view
Character:
Singer
Original title: 影子神鞭
1971
This top ten box office hit reunites the star duo from Come Drink With Me in another classic action adventure. Cheng Pei-pei radiates her trademark ch ... view
Character:
Miss Yun/Yang Kai Yun
Original title: 鍾馗娘子
1971
A young Kung Fu student seeks a reclusive teacher so that she may learn to defeat the evil Black Demon. She doesn't realize that the servant woman she ... view
Character:
Leng Yu Shuang (Lady Hermit)
Original title: 五虎屠龍
1970
The 5 Kao brothers, separated since childhood, are unaware that the master Teng Lung Manor, Lung Chen-feng has killed their father. All five, however, ... view
Character:
Heroine Yen Hsing-kung
Original title: 荒江女俠
1970
A young swordswoman named Fang Ying-qi (Cheng Pei-Pei) sets out to join a gathering of the martial world’s leading warriors under the banner of Lord ... view
Character:
Fang Yingqi
Original title: 龍門金劍
1969
Bai Yu Lung's father mysteriously disappears one night, and for 10 years Bai searches for him in vain. Finally, he decides to head to the far northern ... view
Character:
Ngai Jin-Feng
Original title: 虎膽
1969
After the Ming Emperor is overthrown and his infant son put in the care of the Black Dragon Society, a traitorous martial arts clan attacks the societ ... view
Character:
Shangguan Xiuyi
Original title: 飛刀手
1969
The Yu family earn the ire of the Green Dragon clan when the daughter kills the clan chief's son. The Green Dragon chief wounds family head Yu Yuan wi ... view
Character:
Yu Ying
Original title: 毒龍潭
1969
After being implicated in the theft of the Jade Dragon Sword, Fan Ying (Cheng Pei-pei) is banished to the Dragon Swamp for 20 years. Now, 20 years lat ... view
Character:
Qing-Erh / Fan Ying
Original title: 玉羅剎
1968
A fearsome swordswoman known as The Jade Raksha appears in the martial arts world and begins killing people whose surname is Yan. A swordsman figures ... view
Character:
Leng Qiu Han (The Jade Raksha)
Original title: 红辣椒
1968
The bandits of Hulu Valley murder the chief of Mei Clan while searching for a treasure map. In retaliation, the clan’s leading swordsman Feng-chun ( ... view
Character:
Hot Chilli/Pearl
Original title: 金燕子
1968
Golden Swallow revolves around the further adventures of its title character. This time around, she is forced into violence when a figure from her mys ... view
Character:
Golden Swallow Xie Ru Yan
Original title: 艷陽天
1967
Hsiao Yun's rise to fame all results from a lucky break, as she's forced to substitute for another singer at the last second. The girl makes the most ... view
Character:
Chen Yun
Original title: 龍虎溝
1967
Er Niu receives a note which was written by her father just before he was murdered. The note includes a list of enemy names. So she works with her bro ... view
Character:
Kuo Erh Niu
Original title: 神劍震江湖
1967
A righteous clan’s effort to seek out and destroy the powerful Thundering Sword turns into a tragedy as a fierce, yet impulsive beauty falls in love ... view
Character:
So Jiau Jiau
Original title: 網嬌娃
1967
Li Bing, a nightclub entertainer and a reformed thief was caught up in a fight against a criminal syndicate after forcing a cohort to return the walle ... view
Character:
Li Bing
Original title: 香江花月夜
1967
A musical about 3 sisters, singers and dancers, and their dad, a magician performing in nightclubs until they make their own life. ... view
Character:
Chia Chuan Chuan
Original title: 歡樂青春
1966
The film tells the story of Xing Yonghui, a rich girl who has fun with her painter boyfriend Du Shaohua and her classmates. Chen Xiaoping and Guo Dawe ... view
Character:
Herself [cameo]
Original title: 鐵扇公主
1966
The mythological tale of a quest from China to India to bring back Buddhist scriptures, famous for the adventures of Sun Wukong, the notorious Monkey ... view
Character:
White Bone Demon
Original title: 大醉俠
1966
Golden Sparrow is a fighter-for-hire who has been contracted by the local government to retrieve the governor's kidnapped son. Holding him is a group ... view
Character:
Golden Sparrow
Original title: 寶蓮燈
1965
The Goddess of Hua Mountain is imprisoned for falling in love with a mortal, meanwhile her son is raised in secret until he can attempt to free her. ... view
Character:
Liu Yan-Chang
Original title: 蘭嶼之歌
1965
Dr. Ho decides to move to a backward island off the coast of Taiwan to look for his missing father. He meets nurse Ya Lan (Cheng Pei-Pei) who falls in ... view
Character:
Olan
Original title: 情人石
1964
In a tiny Chinese fishing village, two rival fishermen compete for a young woman's love. She does love one of them, but as she is obligated to the oth ... view
Character:
Lin Chiu-tzu
Original title: 妲己
1964
In order to exact revenge upon him, a young woman (Lin Dai) marries the Emperor Chou (Shin Young-kyun), who killed her father. ... view
Character:
Dancing Girl