Annie Yi

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Annie Yi
伊能靜
Born	Wu Chin-yi (吳靜怡) (1968-03-04) 4 March 1968 (age 56)[1] Taipei, Taiwan
Other names	Shizuka Inoh
Occupations	Singer Actress Writer
Years active	1986–present
Spouses	Harlem Yu ​ ​ (m. 2000; div. 2009)​ Qin Hao ​ (m. 2015)​
Children	2
Musical career
Also known as	Annie Shizuka Inoh
Origin	Taipei, Taiwan
Genres	Mandopop Cantopop J-pop
Instrument	Vocals
Spinoff of	Feiying Trio[2]
Musical artist
Chinese stage name: Yi Neng-ching
Traditional Chinese	伊能靜
Simplified Chinese	伊能静
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Yī Néngjìng Wade–Giles Yi1 Neng2-ching4
Chinese legal name: Wu Chin-yi
Traditional Chinese	吳靜怡
Simplified Chinese	吴静怡
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Wú Jìngyí Wade–Giles Wu2 Ching4-yi1
Japanese name
Kanji	伊能 静江 / 伊能 静
Hiragana	いのう しずか
Katakana	イノウ シズカ
Transcriptions Romanization Inō Shizuka

Wu Chin-yi^[3] (Chinese: 吳靜怡; pinyin: Wú Jìngyí; born March 4, 1968), professionally known as Annie Yi (Chinese: 伊能靜; pinyin: Yī Néngjìng) or Annie Shizuka Inoh (Japanese: 伊能 静, romanized: Inō Shizuka), is a Taiwanese singer, actress, and writer.

Wu Chin-yi^{[note 1]} was born on March 4, 1968, in Taipei, Taiwan, the youngest of seven daughters of Yang Shu-wan^{[note 2]} and Wu Min^{[note 3]}. Her mother is from Keelung and her father is from Shandong. Her father divorced her mother to married another woman who gave him a boy, her half-brother Wu Pu-hui^{[note 4]}.

During her childhood, she was sent to study in an English-language primary school at Hong Kong. Then, she moved to Japan to live with her mother and her step-father, Yoshimitsu Inoh^{[note 5]}, a Japanese man from the Ryukyu Islands. She took her step-father's surname and took a Japanese name "Shizuka Inoh"^{[note 6]}. She lived in Tokyo, Japan for six years and studied at Tokyo Chinese School.

At the age of 17, she returned to Taiwan from Japan and became a singer under Liu Wen-cheng’s Flying Eagle Production. She took the stage name "Yi Nengjing"^{[note 7]}, by simplifying her Japanese name dropping the last character. She debuted alongside her labelmates Donna Chiu and Fang Wen-lin, becoming a popular teen idol in the late 1980s and 1990s, and also expanded her singing career to Hong Kong and Japan.

Since 1995, Yi successfully transitioned from music to film, working with Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien on three films, including her debut Good Men, Good Women (1995), followed by Goodbye South, Goodbye (1996), and a cameo in Flowers of Shanghai (1998). In 1999, Yi starred in 8 ½ Women, a film by British director Peter Greenaway. Yi is also a writer of both fiction and nonfiction, known for her self-help books on relationships.

Since the early 2000s, Yi shifted her career focus to mainland China. In addition to acting, she actively participated as a judge on talent shows, notably serving as a four-time judge from 2010 to 2013 on China’s Got Talent. In 2020, Yi participated in the popular reality show Sisters Who Make Waves.

On February 14, 2000, Yi married Taiwanese singer Harlem Yu in the United States. They had dated for 14 years. On March 20, 2009, the Yi and Yu officially issued a divorce statement, ending their eight-year marriage. From this marriage, Yi had a son Harrison Yu^{[note 8]} born on 16 March 2002 in the United States.

On March 21, 2015, Yi married Chinese actor Qin Hao in Phuket, Thailand. Yi gave birth to their daughter Cindy Qin^{[note 9]} in 2016 in the United States.

In the early 2010s, Yi was actively engaged in public discussions on Weibo, such as in the 2011 Wenzhou train collision, cultivating a civic-minded, pro-democracy image, sometimes referred to as a public intellectual^[4]. However, her career was derailed due to her criticism of government censorship and support for press freedom during the 2013 Southern Weekly incident, which resulted in a brief Weibo ban and a year-long TV ban^[5][6]. Since her return, Yi has shifted her public stance towards a pro-CCP and pro-unification position, which has sparked controversy in her native Taiwan^[7]. In 2024, she was invited to attend the reception celebrating the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing^[8].

In 2019, Yi raised controversy on Weibo for promoting the teachings of Indian godman Kalki Bhagwan. After the Chinese Ministry of Public Security (MPS) and China Anti-Cult Association (CACA) issued a warning about the Oneness cult's activities, she removed the related Weibo posts.^[9][10]

On 25 September 2013, Yi announced that she adopted Xia Junfeng's son Xia Jianqiang^{[note 10]} as her godson and his wife Zhang Jing^{[note 11]} as her blood sister.^[11]

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