Personal Life
Her collaboration with director Zhang Yimou was highly publicized. A film she made with Zhang (To Live) (1994) ended their professional relationship; the film was banned in China. They were reunited in 2006 for Zhang's Curse of the Golden Flower.
In 1996, news began circulating that Gong had married the Singaporean tobacco tycoon. They were married in November 1996 at Hong Kong's China Club.
She was voted the most beautiful woman in China in 2006.
Gong Li applied for Singapore citizenship in early 2008. When overseas professional obligations prevented her from showing up at her scheduled August citizenship ceremony, she was harshly criticized for not making it a priority. On Saturday, 8 November 2008, Gong, in an effort to make amends, attended a citizenship ceremony held at Teck Ghee Community Club and received her Singapore citizenship certificate from Member of Parliament Lee Bee Wah.
On 28 June 2010, the chief editor of Chinese entertainment magazine Southern Entertainment revealed that Gong's agent confirmed that Gong Li and her husband had divorced.
Gong was a spokeswoman for Shanghai Tang clothing store.
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