Her acting career began when Johnnie To cast her in 1990 as the counterpart of Andy Lau in A Moment of Romance . She is known to western audiences for her role in Ang Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman from 1994, where she played the second oldest of the three sisters, businesswoman Zhu Jia-Qian. Her best-known role to date is Ann Huis Eighteen Springs from 1997, for which she was nominated in the category of best actress for the Hong Kong Film Award and in the same category won the award of the Hong Kong Film Critics Society . Wu has also starred in television series produced in the Republic of China, the People's Republic of China, and Singapore . Since the turn of the millennium, their appearances have become rarer. Her last film appearance was in 2004 in the Hong Kong film Jiang Hu .
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Wu is the family name here, Qianlian is the first name.
