Best known for her roles as a poignant and mobile heroine in Li Yang's
Blind Mountain (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
Blind Massage (2014)and Jordan Schiele's
Dog Days (2016)), among other international film festivals. She has also become a go-to actress for eccentric or melancholic roles in Taiwanese films such as
Apolitical Romance (2013),
How to Describe a Cloud (2013),
Design 7 Love (2014), and Cities of Last Things (2018).