Cheng Pei Pei is a Chinese actress. She moved to Hong Kong in 1962. In 1963, she began training at Shaw Brothers Studio through a recommendation by a family friend. Due to her Mandarin and dance background, she quickly worked her way up. And in 1964, she made her feature film debut as Liu Qiu Zi in the 1964 Taiwanese drama film "Lovers' Rock".

Cheng is perhaps best known for starring in the 1966 Hong Kong wuxia film "Come Drink with Me", directed by King Hu. Set during the Ming Dynasty, it stars Cheng as Golden Swallow, a skilled swordswoman on a mission to rescue her brother. Cheng continued to play expert swordswomen in a number of films throughout the 1960s.

Cheng moved to Southern California in the 1970s to raise her children. She attended business school at the University of California, Irvine. During this period, she also taught Chinese dance.

In 2000, she returned to international attention with her role as Jade Fox in Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". Cheng had befriended the film's director Ang Lee when she was the host of the Mandarin talk show" Pei Pei's Time" on the Los Angeles–based TV station KSCI.

She followed this up with her portrayal of Long Po in the 2004 television miniseries "Watery Moon, Hollow Sky", which was shown on Asian-American television as "Paradise". She continues to work for Zhouyi Media in mainland China.

Cheng is the president of the King Hu Foundation. Edit Biography