What Going on Bai Ling??

Bai was born in Chengdu, People's Republic of China; "Bai", her family name, literally means "white". Ling, a common Chinese given name, means clever. Her father, Bai Yuxiang (白玉祥), was a musician in the People's Liberation Army, and later a music teacher. Her mother, Chen Binbin (陈彬彬), was a dancer, stage actress, and a literature teacher in Sichuan University; Bai's maternal grandfather was a military officer of Kuomintang's army, and thus was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution. In early 1980s, Bai Ling's parents divorced, and both got remarried later. Her mother was remarried to the writer Xu Chi (徐迟), who got his national reputation by his report titled Goldbach's Conjecture, about Chinese mathematician Chen Jingrun. Bai Ling has one elder sister Bai Jie (白洁), who works for a tax bureau in China, and a younger brother Bai Chen (白陈), who emigrated to Japan and works for an American company.

Bai Ling, who has appeared in movies like 'The Crow' and also had a brief role on the hit TV ABC show 'Lost,' was arrested after being accused of stealing batteries and magazines at Los Angeles International Airport on Feb. 13.

Chinese-born actress Bai Ling was arrested for shoplifting at Los Angeles International Airport after a gift shop employee accused her of stealing two magazines and a pack of batteries, police said on Thursday.

Ling, who has appeared in such films as "The Crow" and "Red Corner," was taken into custody on Wednesday afternoon after leaving the store with two tabloid magazines and the batteries, Los Angeles Airport Police spokesman Jim Holcomb said.

She was booked on suspicion of shoplifting the items worth $16, a misdemeanor, and ordered to appear in court on May 5.

"She was pointed out by somebody in the store has having shoplifted," Holcomb said. "She went to another gate and they basically confronted her and that was it."

Holcomb said the 37-year-old actress was cooperative and admitted to police officers that she hadn't paid for the merchandise.

On her personal blog, Ling posted pictures of herself standing outside the Southwest Airlines terminal at LAX on Wednesday but did not mention the arrest.

Ling was born in Chengdu, China and appeared in Chinese films before moving to the United States in the 1990s and landing her first major Hollywood film role in "The Crow."

She has since starred opposite film star Richard Gere in "Red Corner" in 1997 and on the TV series "Lost."