Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#13536
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Li Bingbing works on action rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Li Bingbing appears in 7 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Li. A World Without Thieves is the clearest case: a film rated 7.3 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are action, versatility, physical performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, science fiction, horror. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jon Turteltaub, Michael Bay, Paul W. S. Anderson and others, Li Bingbing helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
A World Without Thieves (2004) as Xiao Ye · Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010) as Shangguan Jing'er · The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) as Ni Chang a.k.a White-Haired Witch
Career snapshot
Ranked #13536 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
7
2004–2018
Career length
14 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.3
A World Without Thieves
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
A World Without Thieves
Most frequent director
Jon Turteltaub
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Jon Turteltaub
Most common genre
Action
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 55m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.3
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2000s
6.9 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. The Forbidden Kingdom, A World Without Thieves — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.9
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.0
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Forbidden Kingdom, A World Without Thieves.
Most productive era
2010s
5 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2000s | 2010s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.31 film | 6.61 film |
| Action | 6.92 films | 6.05 films |
| Horror | — | 5.93 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Xiao Ye. 7.3 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument, as Jia.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
7 of 7 films
as Suyin
Directed by Jon Turteltaub
as Shangguan Jing'er
Directed by Tsui Hark
as Ni Chang a.k.a White-Haired Witch
Directed by Rob Minkoff
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Xiao Ye
A World Without Thieves (2004)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Xiao Ye gives Li Bingbing a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Suyin
The Meg (2018)
Performance score7.0
The Meg asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Suyin is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Shangguan Jing'er
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010)
Performance score7.0
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Shangguan Jing'er is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ni Chang a.k.a White-Haired Witch
The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)
Performance score6.8
The Forbidden Kingdom asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ni Chang a.k.a White-Haired Witch is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Xiao Ye
Start here. A World Without Thieves is the clearest statement of what Li Bingbing does — accessible, 113 minutes, and rated 7.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Li at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)
Keeps the action register of A World Without Thieves but asks for a colder reading of it.
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010)
Keeps the action register of The Forbidden Kingdom but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Meg (2018)
Keeps the action register of Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame but asks for a colder reading of it.
7 Guardians of the Tomb (2018)
Keeps the action register of The Meg but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Feng Xiaogang
Director
1 film together
Notably A World Without Thieves
Rob Minkoff
Director
1 film together
Notably The Forbidden Kingdom
Tsui Hark
Director
1 film together
Notably Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
Paul W. S. Anderson
Director
1 film together
Notably Resident Evil: Retribution
Michael Bay
Director
1 film together
Notably Transformers: Age of Extinction
Jon Turteltaub
Director
1 film together
Notably The Meg
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Feng Xiaogang
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A World Without ThievesTsui Hark
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom FlameRob Minkoff
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Forbidden KingdomJon Turteltaub
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The MegMichael Bay
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Transformers: Age of ExtinctionPaul W. S. Anderson
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Resident Evil: RetributionSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
A World Without Thieves
as Xiao Ye
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
as Shangguan Jing'er
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
A World Without Thieves
as Xiao Ye
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
A World Without Thieves
as Xiao Ye
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
A World Without Thieves
as Xiao Ye
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Li Bingbing has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Action Legend
Awarded
7 catalogue titles in action, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
A World Without Thieves
as Xiao Ye
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
as Shangguan Jing'er
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
as Shangguan Jing'er
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
as Shangguan Jing'er
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
A World Without Thieves
as Xiao Ye
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
as Shangguan Jing'er
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
A World Without Thieves
as Xiao Ye
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Meg
as Suyin
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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