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王萊原名王德蘭，原籍山東，落籍東北，生於官宦家庭，在北京出生及長大。1944年她於北平師範大學女子附屬中學高中畢業，與上海影人劇團團長賀賓結婚；1949年跟夫婿合組華光劇團，正式演戲並改藝名王萊，其中飾演西太后的《清宮外史》大受歡迎。1951年她從影，首作《神龕記》遭禁映；1952年8月來港定居，向羅維推薦所攜的《美男子》話劇劇本獲採納，並參演一角。此後半個世紀，她演出約二百部電影，有「千面女星」之譽，先後効力四維、永華、亞洲、新華、邵氏等公司，佳作有《春天不是讀書天》（1954）、《傳統》（1955）、《長巷》（1956）、《滿庭芳》（1957）。在日本拍攝《紅娃》（1958）期間，她獲鍾啟文邀請加入國際電影懋業有限公司，1957至1969年間為電懋及改組後的國泰機構（香港）（一九六五）有限公司演出超過五十部影片，包括《金蓮花》（1957）、《玉女私情》（1959）、《同床異夢》（1960）、《野玫瑰之戀》（1960）、《小兒女》（1963），並憑《人之初》（1963）首奪第三屆台灣金馬獎最佳女配角。七十年代她回復自由身，為香港邵氏、台灣中影等演出五十多部電影，如《應召女郎》（1973）、《金玉良緣紅樓夢》（1977）。八十至九十年代她再憑《小葫蘆》（1981）、《海峽兩岸》（1988）及《推手》（1992）在第18屆、第25屆及第28屆金馬獎三度奪得最佳女配角，先後共四度封后。2016年9月28日逝世。
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Wang Lai, born Wang Delan into an official's family and raised in Beijing though of Shandong stock, graduated in 1944 from the girls' middle school attached to Beijing Normal University and married He Bin, head of the Shanghai Film Workers Drama Troupe. In 1949 the couple founded the Huaguang Troupe, where she took the stage name Wang Lai and won notice as the Empress Dowager in the historical play Anecdotes of the Qing Palace. She entered films in 1951 with The Shrine, which was banned, and settled in Hong Kong in August 1952; a stage script she brought, Mr Handsome, was adapted into a 1953 film in which she also acted. Over the following half-century she appeared in some two hundred films, earning the title actress with a thousand faces, and worked for such studios as Swank, Yung Hwa, Asia, Hsin Hwa and Shaw Brothers, in titles like Spring Is in the Air (1954), Tradition (1955) and The Long Lane (1956). While shooting Scarlet Doll (1958) in Japan she was recruited by Robert Chung to MP & GI, for which and its successor Cathay she made more than fifty films between 1957 and 1969, among them Golden Lotus (1957), Her Tender Heart (1959), The Bedside Story (1960), The Wild, Wild Rose (1960) and Father Takes a Bride (1963). Her performance in Father and Son (1963) brought her first Golden Horse Award for best supporting actress, at the third edition. Freelancing from the 1970s, she made over fifty more films for Shaw Brothers and Taiwan's Central Motion Pictures, including The Call Girls (1973) and Dream of the Red Chamber (1977), and won the same Golden Horse award three further times, at the 18th, 25th and 28th editions, for Unsinkable Miss Calabash (1981), Third Bridge (1988) and Pushing Hands (1992). She died on 28 September 2016.
