Best known for her roles as a poignant and mobile heroine in Li Yang’s Mang shan (2007) and Guo Xiaolu’s She, a Chinese (2009), Huang Lu is a Chinese actress active in international art-house cinema. A graduate from the Department of Performance at the Beijing Film Academy, she has walked the red carpets at Cannes (Blind Mountain and K. Rajagopal’s A Yellow Bird (2016)), Venice (Vimukthi Jayasundara’s Ahasin Wetei (2009)), and Berlin (Lou Ye’s Tui na (2014)and Jordan Schiele’s San fu tian (2016)), among other international film festivals. She has also become a go-to actress for eccentric or melancholic roles in Taiwanese films such as Dui mian de nu hai sha guo lai (2013), How to Describe a Cloud (2013), Design 7 Love (2014), and Cities of Last Things (2018).
