Joan Chen 陳沖

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Joan Chen (born April 26, 1961) is a Chinese American actress, film director, screenwriter, and film producer.

She appeared in the 1979 film Little Flower ("") in China and attracted western audiences' interest.

She is also known for her appearances in Twin Peaks, Red Rose, White Rose, Saving Face, and The Home Song Stories, as well as the film Xiu Xiu Sent Down Girl.

Early life

Chen was born in Shanghai, China, to a pharmacologist's family. During the Cultural Revolution, she and her older brother, Chase, were raised together. Chen was discovered on the school rifle range by Jiang Qing, the wife of leader Mao Zedong and a leading Chinese Communist Party figure, for excelling at marksmanship at the age of 14. She was accepted into the Actors' Training Program at the Shanghai Film Studio in 1975, where she was discovered by veteran director Xie Jin who selected her to appear in his 1977 film Youth as a deaf mute whose senses are revived by an army medical team. Chen graduated from high school a year ahead of schedule and enrolled Shanghai International Studies University, where she majored in English at the age of 17.

Personal life

Chen was married to actor Jim "Jimmy" Lau from 1985 to 1990. Chen married her second husband, cardiologist Peter Hui, on January 18, 1992. They have two children. They live in San Francisco, California.

Chen attended California State University, Northridge, during her early years in California. She became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1989. Chen wrote an article titled "Let the Games Go On" for the Washington Post, condemning Beijing's politicization of the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Chen appeared alongside James Kyson Lee, Silas Flensted, and Amy Hanaiali Gilliom in a public service announcement for the Banyan Tree Project's campaign to eliminate HIV/AIDS-related stigma in Asian & Pacific Islander groups in May 2008.

Chen and actress Ke Lan (Chinese: ) and Ma Yili (Chinese: ) were on the front cover of Trends Health magazine in October 2008 to promote the Chinese Pink Ribbon Breast Cancer Prevention campaign.

Chen, Nancy Pelosi, Nicole Kidman, and Joe Torre attended the ceremony on January 8, 2010 to help the Family Violence Prevention Fund break ground on a new San Francisco Presidio aimed at combating violence against women and children. Chen performed an excerpt from the documentary film "Mukhtar Mai" (heard as part of "Seven") during the performance.

Chen, as well as other Asian Americans, were due to appear in a series of videos promoting the Center for the Pacific Asian Family on January 15, 2010.

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Career

Chen performed in Zhang Zheng's (simplified Chinese) Little Flower in 1979, where she received the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress. Chen portrayed a pre-Maoist rebel's daughter, who returned to her family, a wounded Communist soldier, who later learned that her doctor was her biological mother. Little Flower was her second film and she soon rose to the top of China's Most admired actress, earning the title of "the Elizabeth Taylor of China" by Time magazine for achieving fame as a child.

In addition, Chen appeared in the 1979 film Hearts for the Motherland. Ou Fan's film (u Fán) and Xing Jitian (Xing Ján) depicts an overseas Chinese family returning to China from Southeast Asia out of their patriotic concerns, but during the Cultural Revolution, they encounter political difficulties. Both "I Love You, China" and "High Flies the Petrel" are Chinese children's hits, as well as "Gofi de Hiyàn," sung by Chen's character. Chen appeared in Awakening (SX, 1981), directed by Teng Wenji.

Chen, a 20-year-old girl from California, moved to the United States, where she spent her filmmaking at Northridge's California State University.

Tai-Pan, China's first Hollywood film, was shot on location. In 1985, May Ying, the former wife of Martin Castillo and husband to Ma Sek, appeared in the American television show "Golden Triangle (Part II)" as May Ying, former wife of Martin Castillo and husband to Ma Sek. Josie Packard went on to appear in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor in 1987 and the David Lynch/Mark Frost television series Twin Peaks as Josie Packard. In 1989's The Blood of Heroes, written and directed by David Webb Peoples, she appeared alongside Rutger Hauer. In 1993, she appeared in Oliver Stone's Heaven & Earth. In Clara Law's Temptation of a Monk, she portrayed two separate characters: a seductive princess of Tang dynasty and a dangerous temptress. For the part, she shaved her head on camera. Lilian Lee's award-winning film was based on a Lilian Lee novel.

She co-starred with Steven Seagal on the action-adventure On Deadly Ground in 1994; she returned to Shanghai to play opposite Winston Chao in Stanley Kwan's Red Rose White Rose opposite Winston Chao; she then received a Golden Horse Award and a Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award for her role. She appeared in 1996 at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival as a jury member.

Chen, who was used to being portrayed as an exotic beauty in Hollywood films, moved into directing in 1998 with the critically acclaimed Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl, based on her friend Yan Geling's bookla Celestial Bath (Chinese: Tin Yù). Richard Gere and Winona Ryder appeared in autumn in New York in 2000.

Chen made a comeback in acting and began to work hard in the 2000s, switching between English and Chinese-language characters.

She appeared in Hou Yong's family saga Jasmine Women in 2004, alongside Zhang Ziyi, in which they appeared in numerous roles as daughters and mothers in Shanghai over three generations. She appeared in Saving Face as a widowed mother who is mocked by the Chinese-American community for being pregnant and unwed and has come to live with her lesbian daughter.

She appeared in Zhang Yang's family saga Sunflower in 2005 as a mother whose husband and son have a tumultuous father-son relationship that has spanned the father-son relationship for over 30 years. She appeared in the Asian American independent film Americanese and in Michael Almereyda's Tonight at Noon, the first part of a two-part series, scheduled to be released in 2009.

Chen was praised for her role in Tony Ayres' drama The Home Song Stories in 2007. She played a glamorous and volatile Chinese nightclub singer who fights to live in 1970s Australia with her two children. She has received four awards, including the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress and the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress. Ang Lee's Lust, Caution, opposite Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, and Jiang Wen's The Sun Also Rises, opposite Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, received an Asian Film Award for Best Supporting Actress in the same year.

In 2008, she appeared alongside Sam Chow (simplified Chinese: pinyin: Zéng) in Shi Qi (; Shéng), directed by Joe Chow (Jay Chen), as a rural mother of a 17-year-old girl in eastern Zhejiang province. Joan Chen portrayed a factory worker in Jia Zhangke's 24 City the same year she hoped to because she resembled Chen herself in the 1979 film Little Flower, but she passed away from love.

She co-starred in Bruce Beresford's 2009 adaptation of dancer Li Cunxin's autobiography, Mao's Last Dancer, alongside Wang Shuangbao (; Wáng Shuangbo) and Kyle MacLachlan.

Chen starred in the Chinese television series Newcomers to the Middle-Aged (; Rén Dào Zhán), directed by Dou Qi (Du Q), in which she played a female doctor facing middle-age issues. In the 2010 Chinese television version of Journey to the West, directed by Cheng Lidong (; Chéng Ldng), she appeared as goddess Guan Yin.

Joan Chen, the curator of the first Singapore Sun Film Festival, whose theme was "The Art of Living Well." The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Dead Man Walking, Hannah and Her Sisters, Still Life, Edward Scissorhands were among the festival's five films selected and curated five films for screening: the Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Dead Man Walking, Hannah and Her Sisters, Still Life, and Edward Scissorhands.

Chen was part of Leehom Wang's debut Love in Disguise, Alexi Tan's (; Chén Yl; li Chén Y) in 2010 (alongside Tony Leung Ka-fai and Gwei Lun-mei), and veteran acting coach Larry Moss' Relative Insanity (along with Juliette Binoche) and veteran acting coach Larry Moss' Relative Insanity (a) in 2010 ; Ché; Ché; Chè; Chè; a (; In May 2010, she was scheduled to star and direct one of the three parts of the anthology film Seeing Red.

In 2011, she appeared on the television series "Immortality" as Secretary Bishop's girlfriend. In the 2014 American television series Marco Polo, Chen was depicted as the Mongol Yuan Dynasty empress Chabi. Chen read The Mongol Queens' Secret History in order to prepare for the role. Ula Nara Yixiu, a Chinese television drama set in the Palace in 2018, as Queen Alexandra Nara Yixi (the Empress Xiaojingxian).

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