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| Bingbing Fan | ... | Empress Ulanara | |
| Melvil Poupaud | ... | Frère Jean-Denis Attiret | |
| Yue Wu | ... | Yi, first servant | |
| Shih-Chieh King | ... | General Intendent Chen (as Jin Shi-Jye) | |
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Jue Huang | ... | Emperor Qing Long |
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Thibault de Montalembert | ... | Frère Castiglione |
| Féodor Atkine | ... | Frère Paul | |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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FeiFei Yao | ... | High Rank Concubine |
An empress commissions a painting of herself from a Fresh outsider in hopes of stirring her husband's interest in this lavish period piece. The Lady in the Portrait is a period yarn evoking the unique rapport between a French missionary and the Manchurian Empress whose portrait he's ordered to paint.