Zaizai Lin

Lin was born on 22 May 1990 in Taiwan.{{Cite web |url=https://www.mirrormedia.mg/story/20240112star001 |title=【鏡大咖】當我們討論自由 林辰唏 |date=18 January 2024 |website=Mirror Media |author=唐千雅 |access-date=20 November 2024 |language=zh |archive-date=16 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240516064145/https://www.mirrormedia.mg/story/20240112star001 |url-status=live }} Her parents divorced when she was ten years old.{{Cite web |url=https://www.gvm.com.tw/article/54003 |title=林辰唏：卯上主流，也要做自己 |date=29 April 2016 |website=Global Views Monthly |author=劉子寧 |access-date=20 November 2024 |language=zh}} To support Lin and her sister, her mother worked two jobs as an accountant and market hawker, prompting Lin to start working at a night market and restaurants to alleviate her mother's financial burdens. Lin changed schools six times after her parents' divorce, citing her desire for attention as the reason.{{Cite web |url=https://www.thenewslens.com/article/191025 |title=林辰唏《我們都有體驗自由的能力》：我從不覺得自己只能喜歡某一種性別 |date=9 September 2023 |website=The News Lens |author=李昭融 |access-date=20 November 2024 |language=zh |archive-date=10 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230910142846/https://www.thenewslens.com/article/191025 |url-status=live }} During junior high school, she became involved with gangs and spent most of her time in billiard halls and comic book stores.{{Cite web |url=https://tw.news.yahoo.com/%E6%BC%94%E5%93%A1-%E6%9E%97%E8%BE%B0%E5%94%8F-%E8%A1%9D%E6%92%9E%E9%AB%94%E5%88%B6-%E9%81%8A%E8%B5%B0%E6%80%A7%E5%88%A5-%E6%8E%A2%E7%B4%A2%E8%87%AA%E6%88%91-%E6%97%85%E7%A8%8B-010035090.html |title=衝撞體制、遊走性別與非婚生子 演員林辰唏探索自我的旅程 |date=22 October 2023 |website=Yahoo! News |author=余玫鈴 |access-date=20 November 2024 |language=zh |archive-date=30 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231030222359/https://tw.news.yahoo.com/%E6%BC%94%E5%93%A1-%E6%9E%97%E8%BE%B0%E5%94%8F-%E8%A1%9D%E6%92%9E%E9%AB%94%E5%88%B6-%E9%81%8A%E8%B5%B0%E6%80%A7%E5%88%A5-%E6%8E%A2%E7%B4%A2%E8%87%AA%E6%88%91-%E6%97%85%E7%A8%8B-010035090.html |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |url=https://ent.ltn.com.tw/news/breakingnews/2381536 |title=林辰唏遭父外遇拋棄 走偏當太妹 |date=30 March 2018 |website=Liberty Times |author=蕭方綺 |access-date=20 November 2024 |archive-date=30 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180830020517/http://ent.ltn.com.tw/news/breakingnews/2381536 |url-status=live }} She often skipped classes in high school to work and eventually suspended her studies in the sophomore year.{{Cite web |url=https://www.vogue.com.tw/lifestyle/article/goodjob-20210821 |title=Good Job ! Performer 做得好，演員！媽媽，是我永遠的頭號粉絲。 |date=19 October 2021 |website=Vogue Taiwan |last=Chen |first=Charlene |access-date=20 November 2024 |language=zh |archive-date=30 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220630131332/https://www.vogue.com.tw/lifestyle/article/goodjob-20210821 |url-status=live }} She was discovered by a talent scout at the age of 16, and she accepted the offer due to the high salary. She appeared on the variety program Guess in 2006, followed by serving as a recurring host on {{ill|Blackie's Teenage Club|zh|我愛黑澀會}} starting that same year.{{Cite web |url=https://www.marieclaire.com.tw/entertainment/news/69060 |title=林辰唏從「黑澀會妹妹」到金鐘迷你女主角！夢想成為NANA、不被世界框架 |date=23 October 2022 |website=Marie Claire |last=Huang |first=Yves |access-date=20 November 2024 |language=zh}} In 2008, Lin gained public recognition for her advertisements for Kymco and her appearance in Mayday's music video for "{{ill|Suddenly I Miss You|zh|突然好想你 (歌曲)}}".

In 2010, Lin made her acting debut in Hsiao Ya-chuan's drama film Taipei Exchanges, starring alongside Gwei Lun-mei. She described the experience as her motivation to enter showbiz, stating she was "fascinated" by the passion of the cast and crew. That same year, she landed a recurring role in the PTS romance series Gloomy Salad Days directed by Zero Chau, and secured leading roles in the sports film Jump Ashin! and the crime film {{ill|The Killer Who Never Kills|zh|殺手歐陽盆栽}} the following year. In 2012, Lin starred alongside Wang Shih-hsien and Mo Tzu-yi in the romance series {{ill|An Innocent Mistake|zh|罪美麗}}, which earned her a nomination for Best Leading Actress in a Television Series in the 48th Golden Bell Awards.

In 2014, Lin played the female lead in the drama film {{ill|Anywhere Somewhere Nowhere|zh|到不了的地方}}, and appeared as the best friend of Ella Chen's character in the television series The Lying Game. She then starred in Penguins at North Pole, Taiwan's first homosexual family comedy, as a woman romantically involved with another protagonist played by Nikki Hsieh. The same year, she also made cameo appearances in Apple in Your Eye, a TTV series and the latest project of An Innocent Mistake's writer {{ill|Mag Hsu|zh|徐譽庭}}, as lead actress Amber An's high school classmate, as well as a news anchorwoman in the French sci-fi film Lucy directed by Luc Besson. In 2015, Lin starred in the romance series {{ill|Pisces (2015 TV series)|lt=Pisces|zh|星座愛情雙魚女}}. She came out as bisexual in the same year,{{Cite web |url=https://star.ettoday.net/news/877515 |title=林辰唏才公開出櫃 意外懷孕「意識到自己是女人」 |date=4 March 2017 |website=ETtoday |access-date=20 November 2024 |language=zh |archive-date=20 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240520210243/https://star.ettoday.net/news/877515 |url-status=live }} and later revealed in an interview with TVBS that the decision led to her losing several film role offers.{{Cite web |url=https://news.tvbs.com.tw/entertainment/1931717 |title=金鐘專訪／林辰唏出櫃遭歧視 親揭背後「利益關係」怒喊：太扯了 |date=12 October 2022 |website=TVBS |author=陳郁文 |access-date=20 November 2024 |language=zh |archive-date=3 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230103125245/https://news.tvbs.com.tw/entertainment/1931717 |url-status=live }} She took a hiatus from acting the following year due to pregnancy and returned in 2017,{{Cite web |url=https://star.ettoday.net/news/878279 |title=林辰唏出櫃又生娃！產後復工捲髮被讚「柔很多」 |date=5 March 2017 |website=ETtoday |author=林奕如 |access-date=20 November 2024 |language=zh |archive-date=20 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240520084333/https://star.ettoday.net/news/878279 |url-status=live }} and starred in the Chinese-Hong Kong romance film A Nail Clipper Romance that was released in the same year.

In 2018, Lin portrayed Alice, the girlfriend of Sam Yang's character, in the drama film {{ill|Killed by Rock and Roll|zh|搖滾樂殺人事件}}.{{Cite web |url=https://star.ettoday.net/news/1256543 |title=林辰唏自爆脫序經歷 幹譙聽眾「五字經」斷片喇舌吉他手 |date=11 September 2018 |website=ETtoday |author=林映妤 |access-date=20 November 2024 |language=zh |archive-date=3 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210803173959/https://star.ettoday.net/news/1256543 |url-status=live }} Han Cheung of Taipei Times praised her performance as "pretty solid" and lamented her character's lack of screen time. She also starred in the drama film {{ill|Tomorrow's Star|zh|明日之星 (電影)}} alongside Lara Veronin that same year. In 2021, Lin landed a lead role as Yi-ming, a married woman who reunites with a former romantic interest played by Lyan Cheng, in the lesbian-themed romance series {{ill|Fragrance of the First Flower|zh|第一次遇見花香的那刻}}. She won Best Leading Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film in the 57th Golden Bell Awards with the role, and reprised it in the second season released in 2024. Lin also made a voice cameo alongside Amber An, Ariel Lin, and Rainie Yang as Wu Kang-ren's character's ex-girlfriends in Mag Hsu's romance film {{ill|I Missed You|zh|我沒有談的那場戀愛}} that same year. She also played contract assassin Cheng Feng in the second and third seasons of her partner Lin Li-shu's legal drama series {{ill|Best Interest (Taiwanese TV series)|lt=Best Interest|zh|最佳利益}}, and made a cameo appearance with her son in the series finale of the 2024 drama Imperfect Us.

Lin came out as bisexual in 2015.{{Cite web |url=https://ent.ltn.com.tw/news/breakingnews/1384139 |title=林辰唏認雙性戀 霸氣回：我沒做錯事 |date=19 July 2015 |website=Liberty Times |access-date=20 November 2024 |language=zh}} She had been dating both males and females since junior high school.{{Cite web |url=https://star.ettoday.net/news/2131512 |title=林辰唏國中交女友被排擠「妳們很噁心」 傻眼：我做了什麼被討厭 |date=26 November 2021 |website=ETtoday |author=林奕如 |access-date=20 November 2024 |language=zh}} In November 2016, Lin announced that she had given birth to a son in September with her boyfriend and film director Lin Li-shu, after five years of dating.{{Cite web |url=https://www.chinatimes.com/realtimenews/20161106000018-260404?chdtv |title=26歲林辰唏未婚生子 臉書露臉了 寶貝兒剛滿月 |date=6 November 2016 |website=China Times |author=洪秀瑛 |access-date=20 November 2024 |language=zh}} The partners raised their son together and lived in Hualien County,{{Cite web |url=https://www.elle.com/tw/fashion/street-snap/a38315724/timberland-and-mathilde/ |title=活出奔放生命 林辰唏樂於擁抱大自然 |date=24 November 2021 |website=Elle Taiwan |last1=Tuan |first1=Cheryl |last2=Howell |first2=June |access-date=20 November 2024 |language=zh |archive-date=29 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220429152603/https://www.elle.com/tw/fashion/street-snap/a38315724/timberland-and-mathilde/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |url=https://www.vogue.com.tw/entertainment/article/zaizai-lin-interview |title=林辰唏，不被性向與婚姻拘束的家庭樣貌 |date=2 June 2022 |website=Vogue Taiwan |last=Lee |first=Nicole |access-date=20 November 2024 |language=zh}} but they did not marry, with Lin describing them as in an open relationship and stating that they had no plans for marriage.{{Cite web |url=https://ent.ltn.com.tw/news/paper/1379509 |title=林辰唏生子不婚 自認互信更勝一張紙 |date=14 June 2020 |website=Liberty Times |author=蕭方綺 |access-date=20 November 2024 |language=zh |archive-date=18 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210318022527/https://ent.ltn.com.tw/news/paper/1379509 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |url=https://www.setn.com/News.aspx?NewsID=1338380 |title=林辰唏認開放式關係！爆背伴侶愛別人「很想要二胎」 吐三觀不正下場 |date=14 August 2023 |website=SET News |author=陳穎 |access-date=20 November 2024 |language=zh}} In August 2023, Lin published her autobiography We All Have the Ability to Experience Freedom.{{Cite web |url=https://www.vogue.com.tw/article/zai-zai-new-book |title=林辰唏新書《我們都有體驗自由的能力》：「原來，我一直都是自己的主人」 |date=16 August 2023 |website=Vogue Taiwan |last1=Lee |first1=Nicole |last2=Chuang |first2=Yee |access-date=20 November 2024 |language=zh}}{{Cite web |url=https://stars.udn.com/star/story/10091/7368682 |title=林辰唏第2孩子意外生產 自揭同時愛2人與導演男友關係 |date=14 August 2023 |website=United Daily News |author=黃保慧 |access-date=20 November 2024 |language=zh |archive-date=23 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523091811/https://stars.udn.com/star/story/10091/7368682 |url-status=live }}

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