Bai Ling means "white spirit" in her Chinese dialect and she has become a rising actress on both sides of the Pacific. The delicate, almost ethereal actress was particularly memorable to USA audiences as Myca, the drug-pushing cannibal with a taste for eyeballs, in Alex Proyas' thriller "The Crow" (1994) and as the President's Chinese interpreter in Oliver Stone's "Nixon" (1995). The latter role was almost ironic as Bai Ling had arrived in the USA just four years earlier not knowing one word of English.

Raised in a typical Chinese family, one accepting of the revolution, Bai Ling was a musical