Chien Lien Wu

Wu Chien-Lien was born on July 3, 1968 in Taipei. Inspired by Fame (USA 1980) - a movie that portrayed life in a performing arts school - she entered the Taipei National University of Art after finishing middle school. Wu earned tuition money during the summer through working at Rock Records, where she sang commercial jingles and back-up vocals. Around this time Sylvia Chang happened to come across an unglamourized, but striking photograph of her at the record company and sent it along to Johnnie To, who was casting for a new movie. That movie was, of course, the now classic A Moment of Romance (1990), which launched Wu into stardom across Asia and garnered her a HKFA Best New Artist nomination.