Rui En Artist
Lu Rui En (born 29 January 1981), better known by her stage name Rui En (瑞恩), is a Singaporean singer-actress currently based in Singapore.Rui En was talent-spotted after appearing in a SingTel's popular SingTel hi!Card commercial as the iconic "running girl" in 2001. She was offered a general management contract by Artiste Networks, a section of Hype Records. In 2002, Rui En debuted her acting career in Singapore with her first drama, titled No Problem!. Since 2004, she has averaged one to three dramas per year. In late 2002, Rui En launched her music career in Taiwan, with album Rui ∑n vol. 01, under the record company Alfa Music. Rui En released her second album in Singapore under Hype Records, titled United Nations, in late 2008.Notably after 2007, Rui En gained a significant pool of fans, earning her the title of Singapore's 'Most Popular Local TV Actor' in 2010 to 2011. RBKD (Chinese: 瑞不可当) is her official fan club and according to the group, the name was inspired from the Chinese idiom, 锐不可当 (pinyin: ruì bù kě dāng), which meant 'Rui En is unstoppable'.Widely recognised for her acting, Rui En has won Best Actress related awards every year in 2011 through 2013. She first won the 'Best Actress Award' at the Singapore Star Awards 2011 with her role as a young widow in With You, the highest-rated Singapore drama in year 2010. Fondly recognised for her female cop roles, Rui En was awarded the 'Best Actress in Leading Role' at the Asian Television Awards 2012, for her role as a tough cop in popular crime drama Unriddle 2. She went on to win her third acting award in the following year at the Star Awards 2013 show for her same role in Unriddle 2, earning her second 'Best Actress Award' at Star Awards. She was nominated in the Best Actress category for the 4th consecutive year in 2014, making her the first actress to do so since Zoe Tay and Fann Wong, who were nominated in that category for 7 consecutive years from 1995 to 2001.In 2013, Rui En was appointed the spokesperson for L'Oréal Paris Youth Code, making her the first Singaporean spokesperson for the international cosmetics brand.Channel NewsAsia is currently producing a three-part docudrama starring Rui En as pioneer painter Georgette Chen. The English-language series, which will also be adapted into Chinese, will air on Channel NewsAsia, MediaCorp Channel 5 and MediaCorp Channel 8 in April 2015.
