Ruby Lin is the stage name of Lin Hsin Ru, a popular Taiwanese actress, producer and singer. Born on January 27, 1976, she began her career with a TV commercial and then started acting in small roles in television dramas. She became an overnight sensation with the breakout role of Xia Zi Wei in the 1998 hit television drama “My Fair Princess.” She has since starred in many other hit dramas, including “The Duke of Mount Deer” (2000), “Romance in the Rain” (2001), “Flying Daggers” (2003) and “Affair of Half a Lifetime” (2004). Ruby Lin established her own management company, Ruby Lin Studio, in 2009 and has since produced and/or starred in many more popular dramas, such as “Beauty’s Rival in Palace” (2010), “Three Kingdoms” (2010), “The Glamorous Imperial Concubine” (2011), “The Way We Were” (2014) and “My Dear Boy” (2017-2018). Apple Daily ranked Ruby Lin as the highest-earning drama actress in 2012 and 2013.

Ruby Lin

CTV, Hunan TV

The year is 1760. Princesses Xiao Yan Zi (Zhao Wei) and Xia Zi Wei (Ruby Lin) are adored by Emperor Qian Long.

But things are about to change for the young girls. The Empress dislikes both of them, and plots to turn the powerful Dowager Empress against them. Both of the princesses are from poor backgrounds, and she instantly takes a dislike to them.

Meanwhile, the princesses meet the lover of an Uyghur chieftain at a restaurant. He explains the sad tale of his love for the Uyghur chieftain’s daughter – explaining that she has been sent to become the concubine of Emperor Qian Long.

The young women resolve to help the chieftain’s daughter and succeed in sneaking her out of the palace.

However, when the Emperor learns what has happened, he sentences them both to death in a fit of fury.

With help from their friends, they escape the palace. But the scheming Empress wants rid of them forever, and sends a band of deadly assassins after them!

Can the princesses escape the deadly threat – and might they one day return to the Imperial Palace?

“My Fair Princess Season 2” is a 1999 Chinese period drama that was directed by Sun Shu Pei and Li Ping.

My Fair Princess Season 2

Always Fair Team

In 18th-century China, the Qing Dynasty’s Emperor Qian Long rules the land. The Emperor is unaware that he has a 17-year-old daughter, named Xia Zi Wei (Ruby Lin), who was born after he had a brief fling with her mother.

Xia Zi Wei is determined to meet her father and travels from her provincial home to the Forbidden City in an effort to seek him out.

However, gaining an audience with the Emperor proves far more difficult than she expected. But Xia Zi Wei refuses to give up hope and remains in the capital – where she one day meets Xiao Yan Zi (Zhao Wei), a streetwise orphan girl.


The girls become firm friends and hatch a plan to meet the Emperor during a hunting trip.

However, their plan is thwarted when Xiao Yan Zi is injured by an arrow fired by the Emperor’s son. The Emperor finds Xiao Yan Zi, and mistakes her for his own daughter, taking her to the Imperial Court.

Will the truth out? And will Xia Zi Wei ever be able to take her rightful place in the palace?

“My Fair Princess” is a 1998 Chinese period drama that was directed by Sun Shu Pei.

My Fair Princess

Beijing Enlight Media 

Super-intelligent but shy math teacher Shi Hong (Zhang Lu Yi) falls in love with his neighbor – a single mother named Chen Jing (Ruby Lin). His neighbor, who lives with her young daughter, is not aware that Shi Hong often listens in to her domestic conversations through the thin walls that divide their homes.

Things take a sudden turn for the worse when Chen Jing's former husband arrives on the scene, demanding money from her, and threatening to harm her and her daughter if he does not get what he is after. A scuffle ensues, and her ex-husband is killed.

Shi Hong – a witness to everything – turns up and attempts to help Chen Jing and her daughter dispose of the evidence linking her to the crime. But he has not counted on his old school friend and fellow child math prodigy Tang Chuan (Wang Kai) being the detective assigned to the case.

Will Tang Chuan discover the truth behind the death of Chen Jing’s ex-husband? Or will Shi Hong outwit his former classmate?

The movie was based on a novel of the same name, written by mystery novel author Keigo Higashino. The novel was the third in the author’s popular “Detective Galileo” series.

“The Devotion of Suspect X” is a 2017 Chinese film directed by Alec Su.

The Devotion of Suspect X

Jiangsu TV

It was a time of great turmoil in 1st-century imperial China. 

Liu Xiu (Yuan Hong) and his brother Liu Yan (Zong Feng Yan) are peasant brothers but realize their higher calling to lead the rebel forces who want to overthrow the oppressive Xin Empire and restore the Han Dynasty. Joining them on this dangerous quest are the great military strategist Feng Yi (Li Jia Hang) and loyal friend Deng Yu (Kenny Kwan), as well as the beautiful Yin Li Hua (Ruby Lin). 

Yin Li Hua is the love of Liu Xiu’s live, and despite facing many near-death battles, the two stay by each other’s side and get married. But when Liu Xuan (Yu Bo) becomes the new Han emperor, he executes Liu Yan because he considered Liu Yan as a threat. 

Liu Xiu needs to build his military power in order to defeat Liu Xuan, but that means giving up his bond to Yin Li Hua and marrying a military warlord’s niece, Guo Shan Tong (Wang Yuan Ke). 

How much of his heart will Liu Xiu sacrifice as Emperor Guangwu in order to establish the new Eastern Han Dynasty? 

“Singing All Along” is a 2016 Chinese drama series directed by Lin Feng and produced by Ruby Lin. It is based on the novel series Xiuli Jiangshan (The Beautiful Land) written by Li Xin.

Singing All Along

Chang Ge Xing 

Yin Li Hua

Bona International Film Group

Su Fei (Zhang Zi Yi) spends her days working as a telephone booking clerk at a travel agency but by night, she’s a comic book artist who whiles the hours away, sketching the romantic adventures of her cartoon self - a dashing secret agent.

Always nagged by her parents to stop wasting time dreaming of the perfect man and go out to get one, Su Fei finds comfort in the company of her best friends, Lily (Yao Chen), Lu Xiaoxi (Ruby Lin), and Xixi (Ada Choi). When she unexpectedly wins a five-day, all-expenses-paid trip to a luxurious hotel in Singapore, Su Fei invites her best friends on an adventure of a lifetime. But when they all ditch her at the last minute, she has no choice but to go on this adventure alone.

On her way to Singapore, Su Fei runs into a Chinese-American secret agent, Yan Dawei (Leehom Wang), the living embodiment of her cartoon dream man. Posing as David Chen, Dawei is hot on the trail of Mr. Gao (Jack Kao), a ruthless gangster who hopes to take possession of The Lucky Star, a priceless diamond that was stolen from an exhibition in London. Hoping to use this diamond to construct a world-destroying weapon, Dawei’s mission is to stop the transaction, retrieve the diamond, and discover who’s behind Gao’s recent actions.

Falling head-over-heels for Dawei, Su Fei follows him to a rooftop party where, through a series of misunderstandings and a bad case of mistaken identity, she finds herself in possession of the precious gem. Caught up in a whirlwind adventure to rival those of her comics, Su Fei must rely on Dawei and his techie sidekick Bo (Zheng Kai), to outwit the bad guys and save the world from certain doom.

“My Lucky Star” is an action-packed 2013 Chinese romantic adventure film directed by Dennie Gordon.

My Lucky Star

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Lu Xiao Xi

Hunan Satellite TV

A sitting princess has everything taken away from her by her power-hungry uncle, but can she get it all back? 

In 10th-century imperial China during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Ma Fuya (Ruby Lin) is a princess in the Chu state during a tumultuous time of warring kingdoms and political unrest. When Fuya’s uncle seizes the throne and kills off her family, Fuya barely escapes with her life and is exiled. 

When both Meng Qi You (Kevin Yan), the prince of Later Shu, and Liu Lian Cheng (Wallace Huo), the prince of Northern Han, fall in love with Fuya, she becomes embroiled in succession struggles and battles between states. Can Fuya use her position to rise to power, avenge her family and regain her kingdom? 

“The Glamorous Imperial Concubine” is a 2011 Chinese drama series directed by Lin Feng and George Leung. The drama is based on a novel by the same name by Murong Yinr and marks the production debut of Ruby Lin, who also stars in the series.

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