Xu Jinglei

Xu Jinglei (born April 16, 1974 in Beijing, China) is an actress and director most famous in Mainland China. Xu graduated from the Beijing Film Academy's prestigious Performance Institute in 1997. Along with Zhao Wei, Zhou Xun, and Zhang Ziyi, the mainland Chinese media considers her a member of the Four Young Dan actresses.

Although not well known outside of China, her domestic importance cannot be underestimated: in mid 2006, her Chinese language blog had the most incoming links of any blog in any language on the Internet, according to Technorati.