Rebecca Lim | |
|---|---|
 Lim in May 2017 | |
| Born | 26 September 1986 |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | Singapore Management University |
| Occupations |
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| Years active | 2006–present |
| Spouse |
Matthew Webster (m. 2022) |
| Awards | Star Awards 2014: Best Supporting Actress Star Awards 2015 & 2018: Best Actress Star Awards 2012 – 2022: Top 10 Most Popular Female Artiste Star Awards 2023: All-Time Favourite Artiste |
| Chinese name | |
| Traditional Chinese | 林慧玲 |
| Simplified Chinese | 林慧玲 |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Lín Hùilíng |
Rebecca Lim Hui Ling (born 26 September 1986)[2] is a Singaporean actress and host. Lim has won Best Actress in a Leading Role at the Asian Television Awards and two Best Actress in a Leading Role awards, a Best Supporting Actress award and 10 consecutive Top 10 Most Popular Female Artiste in the local Star Awards ceremony from 2012 to 2022. Lim also won Best Performance in a Leading Role at the Seoul International Drama Awards. Lim has been the cover girl for numerous fashion magazines, and has been invited to Paris Fashion Week 2019 for Christian Dior and Hermes show. In 2020, Lim was awarded the Best Actress National Winner - Malaysia for her performance in The Bridge.[3]
Lim was born on 26 September 1986 and is the second among three children in a Hokkien family.
She studied at CHIJ Saint Nicholas Girls' School for her pre-school, primary, and secondary education, followed by Victoria Junior College[4] and Singapore Management University (SMU) for her tertiary education.
Lim participated in the Miss Singapore Universe pageant while studying for a degree in Accountancy, majoring in law at Singapore Management University. She was awarded the Miss Photogenic title,[5] and not long after, she was spotted as a talent and signed on as a part-time actress with Mediacorp.[6] She made the transition to being a full-time actress after her graduation.[7]
Her first leading role in a drama came in 2008 – The Truth, where she co-starred with Tay Ping Hui and Joanne Peh. However, she was criticised for her command of the Chinese language.[8]
In 2009, Lim starred in Fighting Spiders, which garnered positive reviews for her portrayal of Susie Woon, a prostitute. In 2010, the drama had a second season which won her the honours of Actress of the Year at ELLE Singapore Awards 2010.[9]
In 2010, Lim starred in the award-winning Channel 5 law production, The Pupil, where she played a trainee lawyer, Wendy Lim, in Roberts & Fongs. Her performance in The Pupil earned her the Best Actress in a Leading Role at the 2010 Asian Television Awards.[10]
In 2012, Rebecca's Mandarin breakthrough role was her portrayal of a psychiatrist in the Channel 8 drama Unriddle 2. Her performance earned her a Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes accolade at the annual Star Awards 2012. This was her first nomination and consequently her first win in the category.[11]
In 2013, Lim was nominated for the Best Actress award for Star Awards 2013 for her role in Unriddle 2, her first nomination in the category.
In 2014, Lim was nominated for both the Best Actress and the Best Supporting Actress awards in Star Awards 20 for her roles in Sudden and The Dream Makers respectively.[12] She won the Best Supporting Actress award for her role as the free-spirited airtime sales manager, Lisa, in The Dream Makers.[13]
In 2015, Lim won The New Paper's Babe of the Year for the second time after her first win in 2011.[14] In the same year, she won the Best Actress award in Star Awards 2015 for her portrayal of Zhang Xueqin in Yes We Can!.[15]
In 2016, as part of a marketing campaign for NTUC Income, an insurance agency in Singapore, Lim announced she is retiring via her Instagram account.[16] The general public believed that she is retiring and the campaign drew backlash when she clarified during a press conference it was part of a marketing campaign and she is not retiring.[17]
In 2016, Lim was awarded the Asian Star Award during Seoul International Drama Awards for her role, Wan Fei Fei in The Journey: Our Homeland, a national building trilogy drama. In the same year, she was also nominated in the Best Actress award for Star Awards 2016 for her role Du Jun Ning in Sealed with a Kiss.
In 2017, Lim was nominated in the Best Actress award for Star Awards 2017 for her role Guan Xin Ni in You can be an Angel 2, a drama to show appreciation to healthcare workers in Singapore.
In 2018, Lim won the Star Awards for Best Actress for the drama The Lead in Star Awards 2018.
In 2019, Lim was nominated for Best Actress Award for her role as Chen Chun Xian / Luna for the drama Blessings 2 in Star Awards 2019.
On 15 November 2021, Lim announced her engagement to Matthew Webster, who is of British-Chinese descent and works in corporate branding.[18][19] The couple were married at a ceremony held at The Ritz-Carlton Millenia Singapore on 27 November 2022.[20] On 12 September 2023, Lim announced that she was pregnant with the couple's first child.[21]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | The Ultimate Winner | Zhang Zhihui | ||
| Homecoming | Jamie | |||
| 2012 | Rough Mix | Pamela | ||
| 2013 | Judgment Day | Rebecca | ||
| 2016 | 100 Yards | Brittany Kim | ||
| 2023 | Confinement | Wang Siling | [1] |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Love at 0°C | |||
| Family Matters | Luo Manshi | |||
| 2007 | Mars vs Venus | Rachel | ||
| Honour and Passion | May | |||
| Stories of Love | Episode: "Bride Out of Order" | |||
| Life Story – Elizabeth Choy | Elizabeth Choy | |||
| 2008 | The Truth | Chen Shufen | ||
| The Defining Moment | Xiao Ning | |||
| Crime Busters x 2 | Hu Huadie / Cai Die | |||
| En Bloc | Ranee | |||
| Calefare | Charlene | |||
| 2009 | Mr & Mrs Kok (神探妙夫妻) | |||
| The Will (一切从遗嘱开始) | Huang Ying | |||
| Fighting Spiders | Susie Woon | Won Actress of the Year at ELLE Awards 2010 | [22] | |
| 2010 | No Limits | Xu Jiayi | ||
| Breakout | Su Ying | |||
| The Pupil | Wendy Lim | Won Best Actress at 15th Asian Television Awards | [10] | |
| Fighting Spiders | Susie Woon | |||
| 2011 | Prosperity | Janice Tian | ||
| Secret Garden | Xu Xiaoli | |||
| Secrets For Sale | Lin Yawen | |||
| C.L.I.F. | Moon Liu | |||
| Love Thy Neighbour | Bai Yufang | |||
| The Pupil II | Wendy Lim | |||
| Perfect Deception | Jessica Lee | |||
| 2012 | Absolutely Charming | Song Xinmei | ||
| Unriddle 2 | Gao Jieyu | |||
| Poetic Justice | Feng Luoling | |||
| Everyday Heroes | – | Host | ||
| Code of Law | Wendy Lim | |||
| The Ups and Downs of Ms Chan Poh Geok | Ms Chan Poh Geok | |||
| Of Love And Hidden Charms | Christel | |||
| 2013 | Start-Up! (创！) | Yin Xuan | ||
| The Dream Makers | Lisa Xiao | [12] | ||
| Sudden | Guo Weiqian | [12] | ||
| Huang Yixin | ||||
| TesTube 3 – Umbrella Tales | – | |||
| 2014 | Yes We Can! | Zhang Xueqin | [16] | |
| Youthful Aspirations (细水长流) | Lin Yi-an | |||
| Code of Law 2 | Wendy Lim | |||
| Mata Mata: A New Era | Margaret Chin | |||
| 2015 | You Can Be an Angel Too | Guan Xin-ni | ||
| Second Chance (流氓律师) | Zhang Xiaoxian | |||
| Love? (限量爱情) | Rebecca Hong | |||
| The Journey: Our Homeland | Wan Feifei | [22] | ||
| Sealed with a Kiss | Du Junning | [16] | ||
| Mata Mata: A New Generation | Margaret Chin | |||
| 2016 | The Truth Seekers | Huang Yuyang | ||
| The Dream Job | Jiang Xinya | |||
| You Can Be an Angel 2 | Guan Xin-ni | |||
| Hero | Herself | |||
| 2017 | The Lead | Lin Meizhen | ||
| While We Are Young | Zhong Ai | |||
| Life Less Ordinary | Jesse Leong | |||
| 2018 | Eat Already? 4 | Zhu Ruiyun | ||
| Doppelganger - The Prequel (入侵者前传) | Zhang Ailing | |||
| Doppelganger | ||||
| Blessings 2 | Zhou Meiyue Luna | Nominated for Best Actress at Star Awards 2019 | ||
| Chen Chunxian | ||||
| You Can Be an Angel 3 (你也可以是天使3) | Guan Xin-ni | |||
| Missing | Lynn Chao | |||
| The Bridge | Serena Teo | |||
| 2019 | C.L.I.F. 5 | Wang Manting | ||
| The Good Fight (致胜出击) | Yan Yichen | |||
| 2020 | Who Is Killer? (谁是凶手？) | Kaley Chan | ||
| A Jungle Survivor (森林生存记) | Tang Ruoqi | |||
| Watch Out ! Alexius (小心啊 ! 谢宇航) | Guo Liting | |||
| Guo Liying | ||||
| Code of Law : Final | Wendy Lim | |||
| The Bridge Season 2 | Serena Teo | |||
| 2021 | This Land Is Mine | June Chiang | ||
| Leave No Soul Behind (21点灵) | Ling Jingqi | |||
| 2022 | Soul Doctor (灵医) | |||
| Ling Jingyao / Ling Jingqi | ||||
| Third Rail | Geraldine Hyak (Geri) | [23] |
| Year | English title | Mandarin title |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | MediaCorp Music Lunar New Year Album 15 | 新传媒群星金羊添吉祥 |
| 2016 | MediaCorp Music Lunar New Year Album 16 | 新传媒群星金猴添喜庆 |
| 2017 | MediaCorp Music Lunar New Year Album 17 | 新传媒群星咕鸡咕鸡庆丰年 |
| 2018 | MediaCorp Music Lunar New Year Album 18 | 新传媒群星阿狗狗过好年 |
| 2019 | MediaCorp Music Lunar New Year Album 19 | 新传媒群星猪饱饱欢乐迎肥年 |
| 2020 | MediaCorp Music Lunar New Year Album 20 | 新传媒群星裕鼠鼠纳福迎春了 |
