Li Bingbing

Li Bingbing at 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

Li Bingbing's first-time in an English-language film is Wayne Wang's Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, adapted from Lisa See's 2005 novel of the same title.[13] The film premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.[14] Li started to gain recognition in Hollywood after starring in Resident Evil: Retribution, playing Ada Wong.[15] The same year, she was cast in action fantasy film 400 Boys, directed by British director Alastair Paton.[16]

In 2013, Li attended the 4th Annual US-China Film Summit and received the East-West Talent Award.[17][18] Hollywood magazine Variety also named her Asian Star of the Year.[19] The following year, Li featured in Transformers: Age of Extinction, the fourth installment of the film franchise.[20] This helped solidify her success overseas.[21]

In 2015, she was cast in 3D science fiction thriller Nest (also known as Guardians of the Tomb), a Chinese-Australian co-production that was finally released in January 2018.[22] The same year, it was announced that Li would play China's first female superhero in upcoming film Realm, written by Stan Lee.[23]

In 2018, Li starred with Jason Statham in The Meg, an American-Chinese shark film based on Steve Alten's 1997 novel Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror.[24]

• Charity Ambassador of the Shanghai World Expo[25]
• Goodwill Ambassador of UNEP[26]

Li Bingbing has established L.O.V.E, a charitable organization dedicated to the promotion of a positive, environmentally responsible lifestyle. She is also one of the founders of the two-year One Million-Tree Forest project, launched in efforts to change the climate environment and help local residents of Gansu Province, Southwest China, to increase their incomes.[27] Her commitment to green and charitable causes has earned her the recognition as "the most influential global ambassador" from World Wildlife Fund.[28]

On 24 July 2013, it was reported that Li has a godfather named Wang Lin,[29] a qigong practitioner who claims to be able to conjure up snakes from thin air, cure disease, and retrieve an incinerated banknote intact from an orange.[30] The Beijing News reported that Li Xue, Li's agent, responded that Li went to visit Wang Lin to ask him to cure her mother of her disease. As for the effectiveness of the cure, the agent refused to disclose any more information.[29]

She is a member of China Zhi Gong Party.[31]