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Vivian Hsu (; ; born March 19, 1975) is a Taiwanese actress, model, and singer. In 1990, at 15, she won first place in a talent show in Taiwan and formed Girl's Team (1991–1993). At 19, she moved her career to Japan, where she became active on variety shows and formed the band Black Biscuits. " 'I'm home' – Vivian Hsu releases a single after an interval of 7 years, holding a news conference in front of nearly 100 press reporters" , February 17, 2010, The Television In 1998, she performed on Japan's NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen. Since 2003, she has refocused her career in Greater China.
Hsu's success in modeling achieved its zenith in July 1996 when she was featured on the cover of two biography (the Japanese edition, and the comparatively low-distribution Hong Kong edition). Like the photobooks, both these items have become very sought after by collectors and fans.
Hsu has continued to model for designers such as Hang Ten, Gucci and Mode Marie, and has modelled in all three of her brief, autobiographical books: Earth Onigiri (2001), Privacy (2001, ), and Wo Ai Taiwan (2002). In addition, most of her musical albums contain substantial inserts featuring new modelling work.
Hsu also starred in three Hong Kong Category III motion pictures, Hunting List, Devil Angel and Angel Heart. She appeared in the 2001 film The Accidental Spy, with Jackie Chan. She played the role of Chao Jiale in Love Storm (2003), alongside Vic Chou and Ken Chu. She also composed and sang the opening theme for this series, Decide to Love You (決定愛你), which was released as a single in 2003. As with many actors and actresses, she appears from time to time in commercials and as spokesperson for various causes. In 2006, Hsu played a role in the film The Shoe Fairy of Do Do, a modern fairy tale.
Since 2010 she has appeared in television commercials for the aesthetic salon Slim Beauty House, and Kao Corporation's Essential hair care brand line as one of its three newfaces along with Yuriko Yoshitaka and Nozomi Sasaki. "Nozomi Sasaki, Yuriko Yoshitaka and Vivian Hsu become new faces of Kao Essential", August 18, 2010, Livedoor
In 1997, with two Japanese comedians—Kiyotaka Nanbara and Hiroyuki Amano—and later with a second female vocalist known as Keddy, she joined the musical act Black Biscuits. The group was formed primarily as a "rival band" for the Japanese music group Pocket Biscuits, which was the creation of the Japanese variety show Utchan Nanchan no UriNari. Between 1997 and 1999, they released four hit singles and a full-length album, Life. Their single CD Timing recorded 1.5 million sales in 1998. They participated in Kōhaku Uta Gassen in 1998. Towards the end of the group's run, they failed to accomplish one of the challenges set forth by the variety show and the resulting punishment was the disbanding of Black Biscuits.
During this period, Hsu also released two more solo albums: Da Mafan (大麻煩) in 1998, and Bubai de Lianren (不敗の戀人) in 1999. She followed Bubai de Lianren with a Japanese translation, Fuhai no Koibito, in 2000. Later that same year she released another new album, Jiaban de Tianshi (假扮的天使).
In 2001, she formed The d.e.p with Masahide Sakuma, Gota Yashiki, Masami Tsuchiya and Mick Karn. The band was short-lived: by the end of the year they had released all the music they ever would. This amounted to two singles and a full-length album, 地球的病気 -We Are the d.e.p-.
Over the next two years, she released a few more singles, including, alongside Kazuma Endo of Siam Shade, Moment, the second opening theme to Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, followed in 2003 by her next solo album, The Secret to Happiness Is Love. Her last album is Hen Hen Ai (狠狠愛), released in April 2005. Her most recent album is Vivi and..., released in September 2006. For this album, Hsu collaborated with many artists and people including Jay Chou, Wang Leehom, Gary Cao, Nicky Lee and even her little brother and uncle.
Hsu returned to Japan after a seven-year absence to release her new single Beautiful Day on March 3, 2010.
Apart from being a singer, Hsu is also a lyricist, noted for her collaboration with Jay Chou. She also wrote for Leehom Wang, Vanness Wu, Show Lo and Gigi Leung.
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| 2001 | The Accidental Spy | Yong | ||
| 2005 | The Shoe Fairy | 人魚朵朵 | Duo Duo | Nominee - China Film Media Award for Best Actress |
| 2009 | The Star and the Sea | 星海 | Huang Suying | |
| 2010 | Hot Summer Days | 全城熱戀熱辣辣 | Wasabi | |
| 2010 | Juliets | 茱麗葉 | Hsiu-Chu (Segment "Juliet's Choice") | |
| 2010 | Dancing Without You | 背著你跳舞 | Xia Xun | |
| 2011 | 賽德克·巴萊 | Obing Tadao aka Hatsuko Takayama | ||
| 2011 | The Sorceror and the White Snake | 白蛇傳說之法海 | Ice Harpy | |
| 2013 | Saving Mother Robot | 瑪德2號 | Cao Yi | |
| 2013 | Rhythm of the Rain | 聽見下雨的聲音 | Sharon | |
| 2018 | 人面魚: 紅衣小女孩外傳 | Huang Ya-Hui | Nominee - Taipei Film Festival for Best Actress | |
| 2020 | The Confidence Man JP: Princess | コンフィデンスマンJP プリンセス編 | Bridget Fuu | |
| 2020 | Little Big Women | 孤味 | Yu | |
| 2022 | Mama Boy | 初戀慢半拍 | Lele |
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