Gua Ah-leh

Taiwanese actress and singer

Chang Meng-kui

(m. 1965)

Children2AwardsAsia Pacific Film Festival
Best Actress
1970 Home in Taipei
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Best Actress
1995 Maiden Rose
Golden Horse Awards – Best Actress
1966 The Rain of Sorrow
1970 Home in Taipei
Best Supporting Actress
1978 Brother's Diary
1993 The Wedding Banquet

Hundred Flowers Awards – Best Supporting Actress
2008 The Knot

Golden Bell Awards – Best Actress
1991 Her Growth
1997 Blessed Virgin Mary

Chinese nameTraditional Chinese歸亞蕾Simplified Chinese归亚蕾

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Guī Yǎléi
Wade–Giles	Kuei1 Ya3-lei2

Musical careerAlso known as

Grace Gua
Grace Guei
Gua Ah-lei
Kuei Ya-lei
Kwei Ya-lay

GenresMandopop

Musical artist

Grace Gua Ah-leh (born 2 June 1944) is a Taiwanese actress and singer. Gua has portrayed over 200 roles in film and television since 1965. She has won the Golden Horse Awards 4 times and the Golden Bell Awards twice.

Life and career

Also known as Kuei Ya-lei and Grace Gua, Gua Ah Leh was born in China in 1944. She studied acting at the National Taiwan University of Arts. In 1965, she made her professional movie debut in The Rain of Sorrow, and received a Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress. That award made her the youngest Leading Actress winner in the Golden Horse history. Next year, she was in the movie Home, Sweet Home. Her performance in that movie won the Best Leading Actress in the Asia Pacific Film Festival (Indonesia),^[1]^[2] and another Best Leading Actress Golden Horse award.^[3] In 1978, she won the Best Supporting Actress Golden Horse award for her role in The Diary of Di-Di.^[4]

In 1986, Gua Ah-leh was the producer for Fortune, Prosperity, Longevity, and Happiness (福祿壽喜) a TV show that focused attention on senior care. In 1991, she won a Golden Bell Award leading actress for her role in the TV show Her Growth (她的成長). In 1997, she won a second Golden Bell Award leading actress for her role in the TV show Marian. In 1993, she worked with director Ang Lee in the movie The Wedding Banquet and went on to receive the Best Supporting Actress Golden Horse award. She was also nominated in the Independent Spirit Awards for Best Supporting Female in US. In 1994, she worked with Ang Lee again and was nominated as the Best Supporting Actress in the Golden Horse Awards for the movie Eat, Drink, Man, Woman. In 1995, she won the Best Leading Actress award in Eastern Europe in the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival for Maiden Rose. In 1997, she won the Golden Bell Best Leading Actress award for the TV show Virgin Mary. In 2006, she won the Best Supporting Actress in the Hundred Years Flower Award for the movie The Knot in China.^{[citation needed]}

For the last five years, she has been working on films in Hong Kong, China and Taiwan that support equal rights and same sex marriage. In 2015, she was the leading actress in the film Baby Steps, which was one of the most popular gay movies in Taiwan. Her performance was nominated for Best Actress at Los Angeles Outfest 2015, and won the Best Actress award at the 2015 Winston-Salem Out at the Movies Festival.^{[citation needed]}

Selected filmography

Film

The Rain of Sorrow (1965)
You Can't Tell Him (1971)
The Coldest Winter in Peking (1981)
The Anger (1982)
Lai Shi, China's Last Eunuch (1988)
Miracles (1989)
The Wedding Banquet (1993)
Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)
Tonight Nobody Goes Home (1996)
The Knot (2006)
20 Once Again (2015)
Baby Steps (2015)
Summer's Desire (2016)

Television series

Palace of Desire (2000)
Ju Zi Hong Le (橘子红了) (2001)
The Prince of Qin, Li Shimin (2005)
The Emperor in Han Dynasty (2005)
The Dream of Red Mansions (2010)
The Legend of Incorruptible Stone (2011)
Poetry of the Song Dynasty (2019)^[5]

Awards and nominations

Golden Horse Film Festival (1965), Best Leading Actress for The Rain of Sorrow
Golden Horse Film Festival (1966), Best Leading Actress for Home, Sweet Home
Asia Pacific Film Festival (1966), Best Leading Actress for Home, Sweet Home
Golden Horse Film Festival (1978), Best Leading Actress for Didi's Diary
Golden Bell Award (1991), Best Leading Actress for TV Her Growth (她的成長)
Golden Horse Film Festival (1993), Best Supporting Actress for The Wedding Banquet
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (1995), Best Actress for Maiden Rose
Hundred Flowers Awards (2008), Best Supporting Actress for "The knot"
Chinese American Film Festival (2019), Golden Angel for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Number One^[6]

References

^ "Culture, science, and education: ROC wins top film awards at Jakarta". Free China Journal. 1 July 1970. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
^ "Golden harvest of films". Free China Journal. 1 July 1979. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
^ "This month in free China". Free China Journal. 1 November 1970. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
^ "Culture, science and education: Kinma awards go to top movies". Free China Journal. 1 January 1979. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
^ 《大宋宫词》再曝仿古海报刘涛珍珠妆惊艳别致. People Daily (in Chinese). 19 November 2018.
^ Gui, Ming. "2019 GOLDEN ANGEL AWARD". Chinese American Film Festival. Retrieved 8 March 2020.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kuei Ya-lei.

Ya-Lei Kuei at IMDb
Gua Ah-Leh at the Hong Kong Movie Database
(in Chinese) Gua Ah-leh on Facebook
(in Chinese) Gua Ah-leh on Weibo (in Chinese)

Awards for Gua Ah-leh
v t e Golden Horse Award for Best Actress
You Min (1962) Betty Loh Ti (1963) Li Li-hua (1964) Gua Ah-leh (1966) Jiang Qing (1967) Ivy Ling Po (1968) Li Li-hua (1969) Gua Ah-leh (1970) Lisa Lu (1971) Judy Ongg (1972) Shangguan Lingfeng (1973) Lisa Lu (1975) Hsu Feng (1976) Chelsia Chan (1977) Tien Niu (1978) Joan Lin (1979) Hsu Feng (1980) Sylvia Chang (1981) Wang Ping (1982) Lu Hsiao-Fen (1983) Loretta Yang (1984) Loretta Yang (1985) Sylvia Chang (1986) Anita Mui (1987) Carol Cheng (1988) Maggie Cheung (1989) Brigitte Lin (1990) Maggie Cheung (1991) Lindzay Chan (1992) Carrie Ng (1993) Joan Chen (1994) Josephine Siao (1995) Josephine Siao (1996) Maggie Cheung (1997) Li Xiaolu (1998) Loletta Lee (1999) Maggie Cheung (2000) Qin Hailu (2001) Angelica Lee (2002) Sandra Ng (2003) Yang Kuei-mei (2004) Shu Qi (2005) Zhou Xun (2006) Joan Chen (2007) Prudence Liew (2008) Li Bingbing (2009) Lü Liping (2010) Deanie Ip (2011) Gwei Lun-mei (2012) Zhang Ziyi (2013) Chen Shiang-chyi (2014) Karena Lam (2015) Zhou Dongyu and Sandra Ma (2016) Kara Wai (2017) Hsieh Ying-xuan (2018) Yeo Yann Yann (2019) Chen Shu-fang (2020) Alyssa Chia (2021) Sylvia Chang (2022) Audrey Lin (2023)

Awards for Gua Ah-leh

Golden Horse Award for Best Actress

You Min (1962)
Betty Loh Ti (1963)
Li Li-hua (1964)
Gua Ah-leh (1966)
Jiang Qing (1967)
Ivy Ling Po (1968)
Li Li-hua (1969)
Gua Ah-leh (1970)
Lisa Lu (1971)
Judy Ongg (1972)
Shangguan Lingfeng (1973)
Lisa Lu (1975)
Hsu Feng (1976)
Chelsia Chan (1977)
Tien Niu (1978)
Joan Lin (1979)
Hsu Feng (1980)
Sylvia Chang (1981)
Wang Ping (1982)
Lu Hsiao-Fen (1983)
Loretta Yang (1984)
Loretta Yang (1985)
Sylvia Chang (1986)
Anita Mui (1987)
Carol Cheng (1988)
Maggie Cheung (1989)
Brigitte Lin (1990)
Maggie Cheung (1991)
Lindzay Chan (1992)
Carrie Ng (1993)
Joan Chen (1994)
Josephine Siao (1995)
Josephine Siao (1996)
Maggie Cheung (1997)
Li Xiaolu (1998)
Loletta Lee (1999)
Maggie Cheung (2000)
Qin Hailu (2001)
Angelica Lee (2002)
Sandra Ng (2003)
Yang Kuei-mei (2004)
Shu Qi (2005)
Zhou Xun (2006)
Joan Chen (2007)
Prudence Liew (2008)
Li Bingbing (2009)
Lü Liping (2010)
Deanie Ip (2011)
Gwei Lun-mei (2012)
Zhang Ziyi (2013)
Chen Shiang-chyi (2014)
Karena Lam (2015)
Zhou Dongyu and Sandra Ma (2016)
Kara Wai (2017)
Hsieh Ying-xuan (2018)
Yeo Yann Yann (2019)
Chen Shu-fang (2020)
Alyssa Chia (2021)
Sylvia Chang (2022)
Audrey Lin (2023)

v t e Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actress
1960s	Tang Pao-yun (1962) Margaret Tu Chuan (1963) Wang Lai (1965) Lu Biyun (1966) Angela Yu Chien (1967) Ouyang Sha-fei (1968) Zhang Bingyu (1969)
1970s	Xia Taifeng (1970) Sally Chen (1971) Fu Bihui (1972) Lisa Lu (1973) Josephine Siao (1975) Sylvia Chang (1976) Terry Hu (1977) Gua Ah-leh (1978) Shen Shihua (1979)
1980s	Xiang Yunpeng and Shao Peiling (1980) Wang Lai (1981) Deanie Ip (1982) Ying Ying (1983) Chen Qiuyan (1984) Tang Ruwen (1985) Cora Miao (1986) Lin Shanru (1987) Wang Lai (1988) Ann Lee (1989)
1990s	Maggie Cheung (1990) Rebecca Pan and Wang Lai (1991) Josephine Koo (1992) Gua Ah-leh (1993) Elaine Jin (1994) Wern Ying (1995) Qiu Xiumin (1996) Liao Huizhen (1997) Shu Qi (1998) Deanie Ip (1999)
2000s	Chao Mei Ling (2000) Yoky Lo (2001) Karena Lam (2002) Lin Mei-hsiu (2003) Bai Ling (2004) Yuen Qiu (2005) Nikki Hsieh (2006) Fan Bingbing (2007) Mei Fang (2008) Kara Hui (2009)
2010s	Hao Lei (2010) Tang Qun (2011) Liang Jing (2012) Yeo Yann Yann (2013) Wan Qian (2014) Lü Hsueh-feng (2015) Elaine Jin (2016) Vicky Chen (2017) Ding Ning (2018) Winnie Chang (2019)
2020s	Chen Shu-fang (2020) Wang Yu-xuan (2021) Kagaw Piling (2022) Beatrice Fang (2023)

v t e Golden Bell Award for Best Actress in a Television Series
1980s	Liu Ming (1980) Josephine Siao (1981) Chang Hsiao-yen (1982) Lee Chih-lin (1983) Wu Ching-hsien (1984) Ma Chi-chun (1985) Fang Fang (1986) Tseng Ya-chun (1987) Ku Yin (1988) Lee Lee-feng (1989)
1990s	Lee Ming-yi (1990) Gua Ah-leh (1991) Leanne Liu (1992) Hsiao Ai (1993) Wang Mei-hsueh (1995) Gua Ah-leh (1997) Yang Kuei-mei (1999)
2000s	Rene Liu (2000) Tang Mei-yun (2001) Lily Tien (2002) Ko Shu-chin (2003) Wanfang (2004) Wang Chuan (2005) Yang Li-yin (2006) Francesca Kao (2007) Ariel Lin (2008) Linda Liu (2009)
2010s	Rainie Yang (2010) Tien Hsin (2011) Ariel Lin (2012) Miao Ke-li (2013) Chung Hsin-ling (2014) Zhu Zhi-ying (2015) Ko Chia-yen (2016) Samantha Ko (2017) Huang Pei-jia (2018) Alyssa Chia (2019)
2020s	Ko Chia-yen (2020) Chung Hsin-ling (2021) Hsieh Ying-xuan (2022) Janel Tsai (2023)
Best Actor Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress Best Actor (Miniseries or Television Film) Best Actress (Miniseries or Television Film) Best Supporting Actor (Miniseries or Television Film) Best Supporting Actress (Miniseries or Television Film) Best Newcomer in a Television Series Best Host in a Variety Show Best Host in a Reality or Game Show

v t e Hundred Flowers Award for Best Supporting Actress
1980	Liu Xiaoqing (1980)
1983–2004	Jiang Lili (1983) Wang Fuli (1984) Wang Yumei (1985) Wang Fuli (1986) Zhang Xiaomin (1987) Lü Liping (1988) Gong Li (1989) Lin Moyu (1990) Wu Yujuan (1991) Lü Liping (1992) Chen Xiaoyi (1993) Ding Jiali (1994) Li Yuanyuan (1995) He Saifei (1996) Song Chunli (1997) Zhang Lu (1998) Li Xiaohong (1999) Tao Hong (2000) Yan Qingyu (2001) Yuan Li (2002) Yuan Quan (2003) Zhang Yan (2004)
2006–present	Yuen Qiu (2006) Gua Ah-leh (2008) Wang Jia / Xu Qing (2010) Ning Jing (2012) Deng Jiajia (2014) Angelababy (2016) Jiang Luxia (2018) Yuan Quan (2020) Zhu Yuanyuan (2022)