Bai Ling

I know I'm not good at names and faces (as my students will testify) but my lack of observational powers is starting to get embarrassing. I have seen The Monkey King, The Crow, Anna and the King and the "She" episode in Angel and only just found out that Bai Ling was in all of them. I could understand this lapse if she was really ordinary-looking, but she's absolutely gorgeous; in fact her performance as Kuan Yin was almost enough to turn me back into a Buddhist.

Maybe it's just that she's a good enough actress to be able to fool you into thinking she's someone different in every film. I'l let you judge for yourselves ...