In 2010, she starred in the World War Two-era thriller Shanghai about an American man, Paul Soames played by John Cusack who returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed.
Directed by Chen Kaige, the film was her first major role with a director other than Zhang Yimou.
Gong Li Gong Li, born in Shenyang on Dec.