In 1990, she won the Best Actress trophy at the 27th Golden Horse Awards for her depiction of a Chinese female writer who fell in love with a Japanese collaborator in Red Dust (1990). Known for being a "screen goddess" by Chinese film lovers, Lin's early collaborations with Hong Kong New Wave directors Ringo Lam, Tsui Hark and Jackie Chan in Love Massacre (1981), Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983), Police Story (1985) and Peking Opera Blues (1986) brought her success. Lin won the Best Actress award at the Asia-Pacific Film Festival for her role as a girl scout in Eight Hundred Heroes (1976).Īfter having worked on more than 50 films within the first seven years of her career, Lin took a hiatus from acting in 1979 and moved to the US for a year and a half.
She subsequently joined Chiung Yao's company in 1976 and, by 1982, had played the lead in 12 of her films.
Lin, along with Joan Lin, Charlie Chin and Chin Han, thus became known as the "Two Chins, Two Lins" (二秦二林) for their extensive roles in romantic movies of the 1970s based on Chiung's novels that dominated the Taiwanese box office. Lin debuted in the film adaptation of Chiung Yao's Outside the Window (1973), which propelled her into stardom. She was scouted in 1972 on the streets of Taipei by a film producer after she finished women's high school and was preparing for university. She is regarded as an icon of Chinese language cinema for her extensive and varied roles in both Taiwanese and Hong Kong films. Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia ( Chinese: 林青霞 pinyin: Lín Qīngxiá born 3 November 1954) is a Taiwanese actress.
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