Lei Fei

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Lei Fei ({{Lang-zh|c=李菲|p=Lǐ fēi}}; known professionally as Jewel Lee; born: March 3, 1975) is an actor, businesswoman, and a retired professional wushu taolu athlete from Macau.

Life

= Wushu career =

Born in Guangxi, Lei was transferred to Macau to develop the country's status in the international competitive wushu circuit. Her first major international appearance was at the 1994 Asian Games in Hiroshima, Japan, where she won the silver medal in women's nanquan,{{Cite news|date=13 October 1994|title=Asiad results of wushu|work=Kyodo News|agency=Japan Economic Newswire|location=Hiroshima|url=https://advance.lexis.com/document/?pdmfid=1516831&crid=a3185fb3-01b0-4b38-bfb0-82f775a5d106&pddocfullpath=%2Fshared%2Fdocument%2Fnews%2Furn%3AcontentItem%3A3SP7-G4Y0-000F-P2DH-00000-00&pdcontentcomponentid=144760&pdteaserkey=sr2&pditab=allpods&ecomp=ybvnk&earg=sr2&prid=0cd0cd60-3aff-46db-acef-3923f280dfc5|url-access=subscription|access-date=24 August 2021}} the first silver medal for Macau at the Asian Games. A year later, she competed in the 1995 World Wushu Championships in Baltimore, United States, where she won a silver medal in qiangshu and was the world champion in nanquan.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=1995 World Wushu Championships Results|url=http://www.iwuf.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/3rd-World-Wushu-Championships-1995-Baltimopre-USA-Results.pdf|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=13 August 2021|website=International Wushu Federation}} Three years later, she competed in the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand, and won another silver medal in women's changquan.{{Cite news|date=18 December 1998|title=Wushu results from 13th Asian Games|work=Kyodo News|agency=Japan Economic Newswire|location=Bangkok|url=https://advance.lexis.com/document/?pdmfid=1516831&crid=cb2d07c8-4829-4861-842a-9fd93828ad03&pddocfullpath=%2Fshared%2Fdocument%2Fnews%2Furn%3AcontentItem%3A3VBR-TV00-000F-P2BR-00000-00&pdcontentcomponentid=144760&pdteaserkey=sr4&pditab=allpods&ecomp=ybvnk&earg=sr4&prid=786c1419-33e4-42f3-bad3-45a0e275650f|url-access=subscription|access-date=24 August 2021}} Her last competition was at the 1999 World Wushu Championships where she was a triple medalist and a world champion in qiangshu.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=World Wushu Championships 1999 Results|url=http://www.iwuf.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/5th-World-Wushu-Championshhips-1999-Hong-Kong-China-Results.pdf|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=13 August 2021|website=International Wushu Federation}}

= Acting and entrepreneurial career =

In 1996, Lei was the runner-up Miss Macau. After retiring from competitive wushu, she started to develop her career as a film and television actor.{{Cite web|title=李菲|trans-title=Li Fei|url=http://data.ent.sina.com.cn/star/stardetail.php?id=3581&detail=intro|access-date=2021-08-24|website=Sina Corp|language=zh}} She took on various small roles in films throughout Hong Kong and Macau, and was hailed as the successor to Michelle Yeoh.{{Cite news|date=2010|title=李菲:身披凤凰羽 畅游商海间|language=zh|trans-title=Li Fei: Wearing phoenix feathers to swim in the business world|work=China Central Television|url=http://www.cctv.com/youth/special/lifei/01/|access-date=2021-08-25}} In 2001, she graduated from Australia's Macquarie University with degrees in international finance and corporate management.{{Cite news|date=2009-12-21|title=澳门女儿——李菲(图)|language=zh|trans-title=Macau daughter-Li Fei (photo)|work=China Internet Information Center|editor-last=Xiao|editor-first=Xi|url=http://www.china.com.cn/culture/txt/2009-12/21/content_19101820.htm|url-status=dead|access-date=2021-08-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170605052652/http://www.china.com.cn/culture/txt/2009-12/21/content_19101820.htm|archive-date=2017-06-05}} After graduating, she joined the Shenzhen Sannuo Group Company, becoming its vice-president in 2008.

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