Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 01, 1962
Place of Birth
Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China
Credits
23 titles
Lin Xiao Jie
Biography
Diana Lin Xiaojie (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.
Known For
Filmography
The Road Not Taken
Fight Against Evil 3
Wang Xiuqin
The Miracles
Zhang Li Fen
Those Days
Yue Xiu'e
Big World
Chen Suqun
Interior Chinatown
Lily Wu
The Long Season
Luo Meisu
The Portable Door
Mrs. Dao
Lonely Blue Night
Mother
The Farewell
Lu Jian
Australia Day
Madam
The Family Law
Maisy
Suicide Club in Southeast Asia
Women's Story
Pregnant Woman
Business Circles
Cops and Desperados
梅容
警官与侦探
幸福不是毛毛雨
Country Folk
白银
人生没有单行道
老去的家
Lin Haixia
Summer Never Ends
Grandma
Whispers of Time