China\u2019s Xin Zhilei has won the Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival, becoming the first Chinese woman to receive the honour in 14 years.<\/p>\n
The 39-year-old brought the Golden Lion trophy home on Saturday for her role in The Sun Rises on Us All, directed by Cai Shangjun.<\/p>\n
The film sees Xin play the harassed owner of a fashion retail business who is trying to reconcile with her former lover, who served time in prison for a crime she had committed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like I am dreaming,\u201d Xin said in her acceptance speech, adding that she had been dreaming of standing on an international stage since she became a film actress more than a decade ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cLook, today I am finally here … I am proud of myself. I am also proud to be a Chinese actress standing once again on the stage of the Venice Film Festival,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI also want to tell all the girls to boldly chase your dreams \u2013 who knows, one day they might come true, just like they did for me.\u201d<\/p>\n
The last time a Chinese actress won the award was in 2011, when Hong Kong cinema icon Deanie Ip Tak-han took home the prize, following mainland China\u2019s film queen Gong Li, who became the first Chinese actress to win in 1992.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Xin Zhilei has won the Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival, becoming the first Chinese…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,89191,89186,89187,89188,87694,89193,512,89192,89185,89196,134,89194,89195,10340,89189,69862,89190,87692],"class_list":["post-127545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-berlin-international-film-festival","tag-best-actress","tag-best-leading-performance-award","tag-blossoms-shanghai","tag-cai-shangjun","tag-central-academy-of-drama","tag-china","tag-chinese-actress","tag-crosscurrent","tag-deanie-ip-tak-han","tag-entertainment","tag-gong-li","tag-heilongjiang","tag-hong-kong","tag-shanghai-magnolia-stage-performance-awards","tag-venice-film-festival","tag-wong-kar-wai","tag-xin-zhilei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}