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Bai Ling
Bai Ling
Character(s)	Achara

Date of Birth	October 10, 1966 (age 43)

Origin	Chengdu, China

IMDb profile

Bai Ling plays Achara in "Stranger in a Strange Land". Born in Chengdu, China, Bai's father was a music teacher and mother was a dancer. Her parents soon went away for the Cultural Revolution, causing Bai to live with her grandmother at a young age. She claims she was a quiet child who expressed herself through theater.

She performed theater for the People's Liberation Army at the age of fourteen and kept doing it for three years. She took part in many government protests and moved to New York in 1991 as a visiting scholar. She then obtained a special visa, and finally became a United States citizen in 1999. Her first English role was as a villain in The Crow. She then played a Chinese interpreter in Nixon. For her role in Anna and the King she cut her long hair short, and it appears to be still short today.

Trivia

She was named one of People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" in 1998.
She appeared in, and on the cover of Playboy's June 2005 issue.
She was to appear in Star Wars: Episode III as a character called Senator Bana Breemu but her scenes were cut. Ling claimed it was because she posed for Playboy, but George Lucas said that her lines were unimportant and cut months before they learned about her posing for Playboy.[1]

External links

Unofficial Fan site
San Francisco Chronicle Tubular blog - "Lost's Marked Man" includes a critique of Ling's appearance in "Stranger in a Strange Land"

Category: Guest stars

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Starwars

Up to date as of February 04, 2010

From Wookieepedia, the Star Wars wiki.

Ling Bai

Born	October 10, 1970
Nationality	Chinese
Career
Star Wars work	Episode III (Cut)

[Source]

Bai Ling (born October 10, 1970), whose name is often given in the traditional Western order of Ling Bai, filmed scenes as Senator Bana Breemu in Revenge of the Sith, but her scenes were cut from the film. Bai claimed that it was the result of her posing in the June 2005 issue of Playboy, but George Lucas says that the cuts were made nearly a year prior to her posing for the magazine.

Her scenes were later featured in the "Deleted Scenes" category on the Revenge of the Sith DVD. On the DVD, Lucas says her scenes were deleted for length.