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Lin Xiao Jie
Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China
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 L…
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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.
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2026
The Road Not Taken
Movie
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2026
Fight Against Evil 3
Movie Wang Xiuqin
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2025
The Miracles
TV show Zhang Li Fen
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2025
Those Days
TV show Yue Xiu'e
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2024
Big World
Movie Chen Suqun
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2024
Interior Chinatown
TV show Lily Wu
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2023
The Long Season
TV show Luo Meisu
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2023
The Portable Door
Movie Mrs. Dao
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2020
Lonely Blue Night
Movie Mother
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2019
The Farewell
Movie Lu Jian
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2017
Australia Day
Movie Madam
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2016
The Family Law
TV show Maisy
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1989
Women's Story
Movie Pregnant Woman
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1989
Business Circles
Movie
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1988
警官与侦探
Movie
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1988
Cops and Desperados
Movie 梅容
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1987
幸福不是毛毛雨
Movie
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1986
Country Folk
Movie 白银
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1984
人生没有单行道
Movie
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Whispers of Time
TV show
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Summer Never Ends
Movie Grandma
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老去的家
TV show Lin Haixia
