Acting

Lin Xiao Jie

Born 1962-01-01 · 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 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.

Acting credits

8.6

Liu Chunhe, suffering from cerebral palsy, bravely breaks through the shackles of body and mind to realize the dream stage for his grandmother, while trying to find the coordinates of his own life. After experiencing a summer transformation, he finally embarked on a new journey.

Big World

2024

7.4

A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.

The Farewell

2019

6.5

Paul and Sophie, interns at a mysterious London firm, become steadily aware their employers Humphrey and Dennis are anything but conventional – they are disrupting the world of magic by bringing modern corporate strategy to ancient magical practices.

The Portable Door

2023

6.6

Li Hongqi is forced to travel for his wedding but must team up with a local cop to rescue a girl from human traffickers, fighting criminals while racing against his wedding date.

Fight Against Evil 3

2026

A celebrated TV host, facing a crumbling marriage and a strained family, discovers she—not her father—has a hereditary disease, forcing her to reclaim her identity before memory fades.

The Road Not Taken

2026

7.0

No synopsis available yet.

警官与侦探

1988

8.0

A group of criminals call themselves the "Northern Detachment". They commit several major crimes on the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway. The Public Security Bureau sends Ma Xiaolong after them.

Cops and Desperados

1988

Directed by Bingliu Hu.

Country Folk

1986

A suicide club appeared in a Southeast Asia country, anyone signed in would guarantee a pain-free death, but there would be no turning back once you joined. To expose its existence to the public, Yu Sha, a journalist joined this club.

Suicide Club in Southeast Asia

1990

No synopsis available yet.

幸福不是毛毛雨

1987

8.0

Women’s Story was the first work to garner international acclaim for Peng Xiaolian. It is about three women living in China’s northern countryside and straightforwardly raises the issue of gender inequality hidden in a communist society.

Women's Story

1989

5.3

On Australia's most controversial national holiday, the lives of three Australians from diverse cultural backgrounds will collide, illuminating contemporary issues of racial tension and national identity that simmer beneath the surface of modern Australia.