Jiang Wen

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Jiang Wen (born 5 January 1963) is a Chinese film actor, screenwriter, and producer.

He is often associated with the "Sixth Generation" as a producer, which originated in the 1990s.

Jiang is also well-known internationally as an actor, having appeared in Zhang Yimou's debut film Red Sorghum (1986) and more recently as Baze Malbus in the Star Wars film Rogue One (2016).

He is Jiang Wu, his older brother.

Personal life

Jiang Hongqi, a veteran of the Korean War, is Jiang Wen's father. He was described as taciturn and bookish in his son's 2011 film Let the Bullets Fly. Gao Yang, Jiang's mother, was "a vivacious, extroverted woman" who worked as a piano teacher. Jiang Wen is the family's oldest son; in addition to his younger brother, Jiang Wu, he has a younger sister, Jiang Huan.

Jiang is close to his family: whenever he is on site for shooting or acting, he arranges for them to attend his work so he can spend time with them. He saves the best seats for them and demands for their opinions with every film he makes. He often looks for tips from them even though they're working on artistic creation. It was his parents' praise for A Native of Beijing's original book that pushed Jiang into his role. Jiang considered Xia Yu's role in his first feature film, In the Heat of the Sun, before deciding on him as the leading actor.

On the making of his debut film Hibiscus Town, Jiang encountered his first cousin, Liu Xiaoqing. When he was 23 years old and she was 31, their relationship was highly contested in the entertainment industry at the time, but it was revealed that the crew was very supportive of their union. Liu Xiaoqing never confirmed the relationship, but only said that the media pressure was so suffocating that she had considered moving abroad. At one of these ceremonies, director Xie Jin finally confirmed this belief, revealing that they had been together for three years. In 1994, Liu and Jiang were reunited amicably.

Jiang began a correspondence with Sandrine Chenivesse, a Doctor of Anthropology at the University of Paris, in 1995, after learning about philosophy and Taoism in China at an academic event. They were married in Paris in 1997 and had conceived a child together, but the relationship remained private until their appearance on the red carpet of the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. Chenivesse announced her divorce with Jiang in 2005, citing a long distance separation as the reason.

Jiang was introduced by fellow actor Zhao Wei in 2001 during the filming of Warriors of Heaven and Earth. Jiang recommended Zhou to the cast of The Music Box later in life, but the crew members were left after a creative gap between Jiang and the director Chen Yifei. Jiang and Zhou were officially married at the end of 2005 and have two sons, and during a period of media speculation.

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Career

Born in Tangshan, Hebei, in a military service family, Jiang migrated to Beijing at the age of ten. He was at Beijing No. 1 in 1973. 73 Middle School, where he studied with Ying Da. He attended the Central Academy of Drama in 1980, graduating in 1984. He was assigned as an actor to the China Youth Art Institute after high school. He began acting both on stage (with the China Youth Theater) and in films that same year.

Jiang's debut was in the film The Last Empress, in which he portrayed Puyi. He later appeared in Hibiscus Town, directed by Xie Jin; his role as an intellectual explorer earned him the Best Actor Award at the Hundred Flowers Awards. In the film Chun Tao directed by Ling Zifeng, Jiang was once more partnered with Hibiscus Town co-star Jiang. In Zhang Yimou's debut film Red Sorghum, Jiang was cast. Jiang also appeared in the French-Chinese film Tears of the Bridal Sedan and his first commercial film The Trial.

Jiang made a name for himself in China, appearing in numerous television series and films, after being cast in the 1992 television series A Native of Beijing in New York, which made him one of the youngest actors of his generation. In addition to these, he appeared in Black Snow (1990), Li Lianying: The Emperor's Shadow (1991), and The Soong Sisters (1997). Jiang also collaborated with Zhang Yimou on the 1997 film Keep Cool, in addition to Red Sorghum.

In the Heat of the Sun, Jiang's first film, was written and directed in 1994, according to a Wang Shuo story. It was awarded for its young lead actor Xia Yu the Best Actor award at the Venice Film Festival and received six Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan for a story set during the Cultural Revolution.

Jiang co-wrote and directed Devils on the Doorstep, a black comedy film that was released in 2000. The film premiered at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival and clinched the Grand Prix, but it was later barred in the country's home country, which may have weakened the country because it "seriously distorts Chinese history." Jiang himself was barred from shooting films for seven years. He appeared at the 23rd Moscow International Film Festival in 2001 as a member of the jury.

Jiang appeared in several films in the early 2000s, including The Missing Gun, Green Tea, My Father and I, Warriors of Heaven and Earth, Jasmine Women, and Letter from an Unknown Woman.

Jiang has appeared in television series, including Da Qing Fengyun (2006), in which he appeared in Hong Taiji. In the historic war film The Lost Bladesman, Mao Renfeng in the propaganda film The Founding of a Republic; and Cao Cao in the historical war film The Lost Bladesman.

Jiang's fourth film The Sun Also Rises in 2007 was his fourth feature film, which contains a polyptych of interconnected stories set in different time zones; critics applauded the film, but the box office was bombed. I Love You, a romance anthology film directed by Kevin Lynch, he later collaborated with ten other producers on the romantic anthology film in New York.

Let the Bullets Fly, Jiang's fifth film, broke a box office record by becoming the fastest Chinese-language film to break the RMB100 million ($15.15 million) in Chinese cinemas, garnering critical acclaim.

He was selected as a jury member of the Venice International Film Festival in 2013 by the 70th Venice International Film Festival.

Jiang produced the adventure comedy film Gone with the Bullets in 2014, which screened at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.

In the Star Wars anthology film Rogue One, Jiang co-starred. Baze Malbus, a descendent of Jedha's moon, is brought into the Galactic Empire in the film.

Hidden Man, a Republican-era spy drama, was directed by Jiang in 2018. The film was submitted by China for the 91st Academy Awards.

In the forthcoming historical drama Cao Cao, Jiang is expected to return to the small screen.

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