Joan Chen
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Joan Chong Chen is a Chinese American
actress, film director
, screenwriter
and film producer
. She became famous in China for her performance in the 1979 film Little Flower
and came to international attention for her performance in the 1987 Academy Award-winning film The Last Emperor
. She is also known for her roles in Twin Peaks
, Red Rose White Rose, Saving Face and The Home Song Stories
, and for directing the feature film Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl
.
and was later a visiting student at Harvard). She and her older brother, Chase, were raised during the Cultural Revolution
. At the age of 14, Chen was discovered on the school rifle range by Jiang Qing
, the wife of leader Mao Zedong
and major Chinese Communist Party power figure, as she was excelling at marksmanship. This led to her being selected for the Actors' Training Program by the Shanghai Film Studio
in 1975, where she was discovered by veteran director Xie Jin
who chose her to star in his 1977 film Youth as a deaf mute whose senses are restored by an Army medical team. Chen graduated from high school a year in advance, and at the age of 17 entered the prestigious Shanghai International Studies University
, where she majored in English
.
in Zhang Zheng's Little Flower in 1979, for which she won the Hundred Flowers Award . Chen portrayed a pre-Maoist revolutionary's daughter, who, reunited with her brother, a wounded Communist soldier, later learned that his doctor was her biological mother. Little Flower was her second film and she soon achieved the status of China's most loved actress; she was dubbed "the Elizabeth Taylor of China" by Time magazine for having achieved stardom while still a teenager.
In addition, Chen is famous in China for her role in the 1979 film Hearts for the Motherland . The film directed by Ou Fan and Xing Jitian depicts an overseas Chinese family that returns to China from southeast Asia out of their patriotic feelings but encounter political troubles during the Cultural Revolution
. The songs, "I Love You, China
" and "High Flies the Petrel" , sung by Chen's character, are perennial favorites in China. In 1981, Chen starred in Awakening , directed by Teng Wenji .
At age 20, Chen moved to the United States, where she studied filmmaking
at California State University, Northridge
.
Her first Hollywood movie was Tai-Pan
, filmed on location in China. She went on to star in Bernardo Bertolucci
's The Last Emperor
in 1987 and the David Lynch
/Mark Frost
television series Twin Peaks
as Josie Packard
. In 1993 she co-starred in Oliver Stone
's Heaven & Earth. She portrayed two different characters in Clara Law
's Temptation of a Monk
: a seductive princess of Tang dynasty
, and a dangerous temptress. The award-winning film was adapted from a novel by Lilian Lee
.
In 1994 she came back in Shanghai to star in Stanley Kwan
's Red Rose, White Rose opposite Winston Chao
, and subsequently won a Golden Horse Award and a Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award for her performance.
Tired of being cast as an exotic beauty in Hollywood films, Chen moved into directing in 1998 with the critically acclaimed Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl
, adapted from the novella Heavenly Bath by her friend Yan Geling. She later directed Autumn in New York
, starring Richard Gere
and Winona Ryder
, in 2000.
In the middle of the 2000s, Chen made a comeback in acting and began to work intensely, alternating between English and Chinese-language roles.
In 2004, she starred in Hou Yong's family saga
Jasmine Women
, alongside Zhang Ziyi
, in which they played multiple roles as daughters and mothers across three generations in Shanghai. She also starred in the Asian American
comedy Saving Face as a widowed mother, who is shunned by the Chinese-American community for being pregnant and unwed and therefore has come to live with her lesbian daughter.
In 2005, she appeared in Zhang Yang's family saga
Sunflower
, as a mother whose husband and son have a troubled father-son relationship over 30 years. She then starred in the Asian American
independent film Americanese
and in Michael Almereyda
's Tonight at Noon, the first part of a two part project, scheduled to be released in 2009
In 2007, Chen was acclaimed for her performance in Tony Ayres
' drama The Home Song Stories
. She portrayed a glamorous and unstable Chinese nightclub singer who struggles to survive in seventies Australia with her two children. Chen. The role earned her four awards including the Australian Film Institute Award
for Best Actress
and the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress. The same year saw her co-starring in two other acclaimed films: Ang Lee
's Lust, Caution, opposite Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, and Jiang Wen
's The Sun Also Rises, opposite Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, for which she received an Asian Film Award for Best Supporting Actress.
In 2008, she starred alongside Sam Chow in Shi Qi , directed by Joe Chow , as a rural mother of a 17-year-old in eastern Zhejiang province. The same year Joan Chen portrayed in Jia Zhangke
's 24 City
a factory worker once fancied because she resembled Chen herself in the 1979 film Little Flower, but who missed her chance at love.
Chen narrated the MP3 audio guide Louis Vuitton
Soundwalk Shanghai City Guide, one of the three audio guides for Chinese cities (Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong) produced by Louis Vuitton and Soundwalk, and released in June 2008.
She then co-starred in Bruce Beresford
's 2009 adaptation of the autobiography of dancer Li Cunxin
Mao's Last Dancer, along with Wang Shungbao and Kyle MacLachlan
.
In 2009, Chen starred alongside Feng Yuanzheng and Liu Jinshan in the Chinese TV series Newcomers to the Middle-Aged , directed by Dou Qi , in which she played a female doctor facing middle-age problems. She also played the part of goddess Guan Yin in the 2010 Chinese TV adaptation of Journey to the West
, directed by Cheng Lidong .
In October 2009 Joan Chen was the curator of the first Singapore Sun Film Festival
, whose theme was The Art of Living Well. She selected and curated five films for screening during the festival: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
, Dead Man Walking
, Hannah and Her Sisters
, Still Life and Edward Scissorhands
.
In 2010, Chen joined the cast of Leehom Wang's directorial debut Lian ai tong gao ., Alexi Tan's Color Me Love (alongside Liu Ye), Ilkka Järvilaturi's Kiss, His First (alongside Tony Leung Ka-fai
and Kwai Lun-mei
) and veteran acting coach Larry Moss' Relative Insanity (along with Juliette Binoche
). In May 2010, she was set to star and direct one of the three parts of the anthology film Seeing Red.
As of the 2011 episode 3.13 entitled "Immortality" she plays Secretary Bishop's girlfriend on the J.J. Abrams created sci-fi television series FRINGE
.
During her early years in California
Chen attended California State University, Northridge
. In 1989, she became a naturalized citizen of the United States. On April 9, 2008, Chen wrote an article entitled "Let the Games Go On" on the Washington Post, about the politicization of the 2008 Summer Olympics
in Beijing.
In October 2008, Chen made the cover of Trends Health magazine alongside actresses Ke Lan and Ma Yili to promote the Chinese Pink Ribbon
Breast Cancer Prevention campaign.
On January 8, 2010, Chen attended alongside Nancy Pelosi
, Nicole Kidman
and Joe Torre
the ceremony to help Family Violence Prevention Fund
break ground on a new international center located in the Presidio of San Francisco
intended to combat violence against women and children. During the ceremony, Chen performed an excerpt from the documentary play, "The Thumbprint of Mukhtar Mai" (presented as part of "Seven").
On January 15, 2010, Chen was set to appear, along with other Asian American personalities in a series of videos supporting the Center for the Pacific Asian Family.
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Chinese American
Chinese Americans represent Americans of Chinese descent. Chinese Americans constitute one group of overseas Chinese and also a subgroup of East Asian Americans, which is further a subgroup of Asian Americans...
actress, film director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
, screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
and film producer
Film producer
A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...
. She became famous in China for her performance in the 1979 film Little Flower
Little Flower
-People:*Thérèse de Lisieux, , a nun who was declared by the Roman Catholic Church as a Saint and a Doctor of the Church. She is widely known as "The Little Flower of Jesus"....
and came to international attention for her performance in the 1987 Academy Award-winning film The Last Emperor
The Last Emperor
The Last Emperor is a 1987 biopic about the life of Puyi, the last Emperor of China, whose autobiography was the basis for the screenplay written by Mark Peploe and Bernardo Bertolucci. Independently produced by Jeremy Thomas, it was directed by Bertolucci and released in 1987 by Columbia Pictures...
. She is also known for her roles in Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks is an American television serial drama created by David Lynch and Mark Frost. The series follows the investigation headed by FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper , of the murder of a popular teenager and homecoming queen, Laura Palmer...
, Red Rose White Rose, Saving Face and The Home Song Stories
The Home Song Stories
The Home Song Stories is an Australian film released in 2007. Written and directed by acclaimed Tony Ayres of Walking on Water , The Home Song Stories stars Joan Chen, Joel Lok, Qi Yu Wu, Irene Chen, Steven Vidler and Kerry Walker....
, and for directing the feature film Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl
Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl
Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl is a 1998 Chinese film directed by actress Joan Chen based during the 1970s in People's Republic of China, during the Cultural Revolution's Down to the Countryside Movement, instituted by Mao for political reasons. This drama film is the directorial debut of Chen...
.
Early life and career
Chen Chong was born in Shanghai, China to a family of pharmacologists. (Her grandparent Changshao Zhang was educated at UCIUCI
UCI usually refers to the Union Cycliste Internationale, the world governing body for the sport of cycling.UCI may also refer to:* United Cinemas International* United Kennel Clubs International...
and was later a visiting student at Harvard). She and her older brother, Chase, were raised during the Cultural Revolution
Cultural Revolution
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, commonly known as the Cultural Revolution , was a socio-political movement that took place in the People's Republic of China from 1966 through 1976...
. At the age of 14, Chen was discovered on the school rifle range by Jiang Qing
Jiang Qing
Jiang Qing was the pseudonym that was used by Chinese leader Mao Zedong's last wife and major Communist Party of China power figure. She went by the stage name Lan Ping during her acting career, and was known by various other names during her life...
, the wife of leader Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung , and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao , was a Chinese Communist revolutionary, guerrilla warfare strategist, Marxist political philosopher, and leader of the Chinese Revolution...
and major Chinese Communist Party power figure, as she was excelling at marksmanship. This led to her being selected for the Actors' Training Program by the Shanghai Film Studio
Shanghai Film Studio
Shanghai Film Studio is the film division of the Shanghai Film Group Corporation in Shanghai, China. It is responsible for the production of Chinese films and TV programs.-History:...
in 1975, where she was discovered by veteran director Xie Jin
Xie Jin
Xie Jin was an important Chinese film director. He rose to prominence in 1957, directing the film Woman Basketball Player No. 5. Most recently he was known for the direction of The Opium War....
who chose her to star in his 1977 film Youth as a deaf mute whose senses are restored by an Army medical team. Chen graduated from high school a year in advance, and at the age of 17 entered the prestigious Shanghai International Studies University
Shanghai International Studies University
Shanghai International Studies University is a research, teaching, and multidisciplinary university based in Shanghai, People's Republic of China. Founded in December 1949 as the former Shanghai Russian School, SISU is one of the top two universities that specialise in studying foreign languages...
, where she majored in English
English studies
English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language , English linguistics English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language (including literatures from the U.K., U.S.,...
.
Acting career
Chen Chong first became famous in China for her performance alongside Tang GuoqiangTang Guoqiang
Tang Guoqiang is an award winning Chinese actor best known for playing historical figures in several films and television series. Some of his more notable roles to date are: various Chinese emperors , Zhuge Liang, Yan Zhenqing and Mao Zedong...
in Zhang Zheng's Little Flower in 1979, for which she won the Hundred Flowers Award . Chen portrayed a pre-Maoist revolutionary's daughter, who, reunited with her brother, a wounded Communist soldier, later learned that his doctor was her biological mother. Little Flower was her second film and she soon achieved the status of China's most loved actress; she was dubbed "the Elizabeth Taylor of China" by Time magazine for having achieved stardom while still a teenager.
In addition, Chen is famous in China for her role in the 1979 film Hearts for the Motherland . The film directed by Ou Fan and Xing Jitian depicts an overseas Chinese family that returns to China from southeast Asia out of their patriotic feelings but encounter political troubles during the Cultural Revolution
Cultural Revolution
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, commonly known as the Cultural Revolution , was a socio-political movement that took place in the People's Republic of China from 1966 through 1976...
. The songs, "I Love You, China
I Love You, China
I Love You, China is a song composed for a soprano by Zheng Qiufeng to the lyrics of Qu Cong for the film Overseas Compatriots starring Chen Chong , also known as Joan Chen. The voice of the song that appeared in the film is that of Ye Peiying...
" and "High Flies the Petrel" , sung by Chen's character, are perennial favorites in China. In 1981, Chen starred in Awakening , directed by Teng Wenji .
At age 20, Chen moved to the United States, where she studied filmmaking
Filmmaking
Filmmaking is the process of making a film, from an initial story, idea, or commission, through scriptwriting, casting, shooting, directing, editing, and screening the finished product before an audience that may result in a theatrical release or television program...
at California State University, Northridge
California State University, Northridge
California State University, Northridge is a public university in Northridge, a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles, California, United States....
.
Her first Hollywood movie was Tai-Pan
Tai-Pan (film)
Tai-Pan is a 1986 film directed by Daryl Duke, loosely based on James Clavell's 1966 novel of the same name. While many of the same characters and plot twists are maintained, a few smaller occurrences are left out. Filmed under communist Chinese censorship, some portions of Clavell's story were...
, filmed on location in China. She went on to star in Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci is an Italian film director and screenwriter, whose films include The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, 1900, The Last Emperor and The Dreamers...
's The Last Emperor
The Last Emperor
The Last Emperor is a 1987 biopic about the life of Puyi, the last Emperor of China, whose autobiography was the basis for the screenplay written by Mark Peploe and Bernardo Bertolucci. Independently produced by Jeremy Thomas, it was directed by Bertolucci and released in 1987 by Columbia Pictures...
in 1987 and the David Lynch
David Lynch
David Keith Lynch is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed "Lynchian", and which is characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound...
/Mark Frost
Mark Frost
Mark Frost is an American novelist, television/film writer, director, who is best known as a writer for the TV show Hill Street Blues and co-creator of the show Twin Peaks.-Personal life:...
television series Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks is an American television serial drama created by David Lynch and Mark Frost. The series follows the investigation headed by FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper , of the murder of a popular teenager and homecoming queen, Laura Palmer...
as Josie Packard
Josie Packard
Jocelyn "Josie" Packard is a character from the television series Twin Peaks, created by David Lynch and Mark Frost. Played by Joan Chen, she is a classic "femme fatale" character.-Background:She is from Hong Kong, and is ethnic Chinese...
. In 1993 she co-starred in Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone
William Oliver Stone is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Stone became well known in the late 1980s and the early 1990s for directing a series of films about the Vietnam War, for which he had previously participated as an infantry soldier. His work frequently focuses on...
's Heaven & Earth. She portrayed two different characters in Clara Law
Clara Law
Clara Law is a Hong Kong Second Wave film director, now having relocated to Australia before the 1997 Hong Kong handover....
's Temptation of a Monk
Temptation of a Monk
Temptation of A Monk is a 1993 Chinese language film starring Joan Chen and directed by Clara Law.-External links:*...
: a seductive princess of Tang dynasty
Tang Dynasty
The Tang Dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China preceded by the Sui Dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period. It was founded by the Li family, who seized power during the decline and collapse of the Sui Empire...
, and a dangerous temptress. The award-winning film was adapted from a novel by Lilian Lee
Lilian Lee
Lilian Lee, also spelled Lillian Lee , is a Chinese-language novelist best known as the author of Farewell My Concubine, adapted as a movie by Chen Kaige. She is the author of about ninety books.Lee was born Lee Bak in Taishan, Guangzhou...
.
In 1994 she came back in Shanghai to star in Stanley Kwan
Stanley Kwan
Stanley Kwan is a Hong Kong Second Wave film director and producer.Kwan landed a job at the TVB after receiving a mass communications degree at Hong Kong Baptist College...
's Red Rose, White Rose opposite Winston Chao
Winston Chao
Winston Chao Wen-Hsuan is a Taiwanese actor. He came to international attention for his performance in the 1993 film The Wedding Banquet...
, and subsequently won a Golden Horse Award and a Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award for her performance.
Tired of being cast as an exotic beauty in Hollywood films, Chen moved into directing in 1998 with the critically acclaimed Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl
Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl
Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl is a 1998 Chinese film directed by actress Joan Chen based during the 1970s in People's Republic of China, during the Cultural Revolution's Down to the Countryside Movement, instituted by Mao for political reasons. This drama film is the directorial debut of Chen...
, adapted from the novella Heavenly Bath by her friend Yan Geling. She later directed Autumn in New York
Autumn in New York (film)
Autumn in New York is a 2000 romantic drama film directed by Joan Chen and starring Richard Gere, Winona Ryder, and Anthony LaPaglia.The movie focuses on Will Keane who falls in love with Charlotte Fielding , a sweet, but terminally ill young woman.-Plot:Will Keane, a 48-year old restaurant owner,...
, starring Richard Gere
Richard Gere
Richard Tiffany Gere is an American actor. He began acting in the 1970s, playing a supporting role in Looking for Mr. Goodbar, and a starring role in Days of Heaven. He came to prominence in 1980 for his role in the film American Gigolo, which established him as a leading man and a sex symbol...
and Winona Ryder
Winona Ryder
Winona Ryder is an American actress. She made her film debut in the 1986 film Lucas. Ryder's first significant role came in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice as a goth teenager, which won her critical and commercial recognition...
, in 2000.
In the middle of the 2000s, Chen made a comeback in acting and began to work intensely, alternating between English and Chinese-language roles.
In 2004, she starred in Hou Yong's family saga
Family saga
The family saga is a genre of literature which chronicles the lives and doings of a family or a number of related or interconnected families over a period of time...
Jasmine Women
Jasmine Women
Jasmine Women is a 2004 film, adapted from Su Tong's novel called Funü Shenghuo which means Women's Lives. It is directed by Hou Yong, formerly a well known cinematographer. Zhang Ziyi plays the youngest of three generations of women who leads lives in Shanghai. Joan Chen plays the...
, alongside Zhang Ziyi
Zhang Ziyi
Zhang Ziyi is a Chinese film actress. Zhang is coined by the media as one of the Four Young Dan actresses in the Film Industry in China, along with Zhao Wei, Xu Jinglei, and Zhou Xun...
, in which they played multiple roles as daughters and mothers across three generations in Shanghai. She also starred in the Asian American
Asian American
Asian Americans are Americans of Asian descent. The U.S. Census Bureau definition of Asians as "Asian” refers to a person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan,...
comedy Saving Face as a widowed mother, who is shunned by the Chinese-American community for being pregnant and unwed and therefore has come to live with her lesbian daughter.
In 2005, she appeared in Zhang Yang's family saga
Family saga
The family saga is a genre of literature which chronicles the lives and doings of a family or a number of related or interconnected families over a period of time...
Sunflower
Sunflower (2005 film)
Sunflower is a 2006 Chinese film directed by Zhang Yang. Zhang's fourth film, Sunflower is a joint production of Ming Productions, the Beijing Film Studio and the Hong Kong subsidiary of the Netherlands-based Fortissimo Films...
, as a mother whose husband and son have a troubled father-son relationship over 30 years. She then starred in the Asian American
Asian American
Asian Americans are Americans of Asian descent. The U.S. Census Bureau definition of Asians as "Asian” refers to a person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan,...
independent film Americanese
Americanese
Americanese is a 2006 American independent film acquired by IFC Films but not yet released. It is a romantic drama about the break-up of a couple, about love and memory, and how race plays into the lives of contemporary Asian Americans and Hapa/mixed-race Americans.- Background :The film was...
and in Michael Almereyda
Michael Almereyda
Michael Almereyda is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His most well known work is Hamlet , starring Ethan Hawke.-Early life:...
's Tonight at Noon, the first part of a two part project, scheduled to be released in 2009
In 2007, Chen was acclaimed for her performance in Tony Ayres
Tony Ayres
Tony Ayres is a Chinese-born Australian screenwriter and director. He is most notable for his award-winning films Walking on Water and The Home Song Stories.-Early life:...
' drama The Home Song Stories
The Home Song Stories
The Home Song Stories is an Australian film released in 2007. Written and directed by acclaimed Tony Ayres of Walking on Water , The Home Song Stories stars Joan Chen, Joel Lok, Qi Yu Wu, Irene Chen, Steven Vidler and Kerry Walker....
. She portrayed a glamorous and unstable Chinese nightclub singer who struggles to survive in seventies Australia with her two children. Chen. The role earned her four awards including the Australian Film Institute Award
Australian Film Institute Awards
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award, known as the AACTA Award , is an accolade presented annually by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts . The awards recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry and television industry, including directors,...
for Best Actress
Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
The Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role is an award presented annually at the Australian Film Institute Awards. The award has been presented annually since 1971.-History:...
and the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress. The same year saw her co-starring in two other acclaimed films: Ang Lee
Ang Lee
Ang Lee is a Taiwanese film director. Lee has directed a diverse set of films such as Eat Drink Man Woman , Sense and Sensibility , Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon , Hulk , and Brokeback Mountain , for which he won an Academy...
's Lust, Caution, opposite Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, and Jiang Wen
Jiang Wen
Jiang Wen is a Chinese film actor and director. As a director, he is sometimes grouped with the "sixth generation" that emerged in the 1990s. Jiang is also well known internationally as an actor, having starred with Gong Li in Zhang Yimou's debut film Red Sorghum...
's The Sun Also Rises, opposite Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, for which she received an Asian Film Award for Best Supporting Actress.
In 2008, she starred alongside Sam Chow in Shi Qi , directed by Joe Chow , as a rural mother of a 17-year-old in eastern Zhejiang province. The same year Joan Chen portrayed in Jia Zhangke
Jia Zhangke
Jia Zhangke is a Chinese film director. He is generally regarded as a leading figure of the "Sixth Generation" movement of Chinese cinema, a group that also includes such figures as Wang Xiaoshuai and Zhang Yuan....
's 24 City
24 City
24 City is a 2008 film directed and co-written by Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke. The film follows three generations of characters in Chengdu as a state-owned factory gives way to a modern apartment complex...
a factory worker once fancied because she resembled Chen herself in the 1979 film Little Flower, but who missed her chance at love.
Chen narrated the MP3 audio guide Louis Vuitton
Louis Vuitton
Louis Vuitton Malletier – commonly referred to as Louis Vuitton , or shortened to LV – is a French fashion house founded in 1854 by Louis Vuitton. The label is well known for its LV monogram, which is featured on most products, ranging from luxury trunks and leather goods to ready-to-wear, shoes,...
Soundwalk Shanghai City Guide, one of the three audio guides for Chinese cities (Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong) produced by Louis Vuitton and Soundwalk, and released in June 2008.
She then co-starred in Bruce Beresford
Bruce Beresford
Bruce Beresford is an Australian film director who has made more than 30 feature films over a 40-year career.-Early life:...
's 2009 adaptation of the autobiography of dancer Li Cunxin
Li Cunxin
Li Cunxin is a Chinese-Australian former ballet dancer and current stockbroker.-Early life:Li was born into poverty in the Li Commune near the city of Qingdao in the Shandong province of People's Republic of China...
Mao's Last Dancer, along with Wang Shungbao and Kyle MacLachlan
Kyle MacLachlan
Kyle Merritt MacLachlan is an American actor. MacLachlan is best known for his roles in cult films Blue Velvet as Jeffrey Beaumont, Showgirls as Zack Carey, as Paul Atreides in Dune, and Ray Manzarek in the Oliver Stone film The Doors...
.
In 2009, Chen starred alongside Feng Yuanzheng and Liu Jinshan in the Chinese TV series Newcomers to the Middle-Aged , directed by Dou Qi , in which she played a female doctor facing middle-age problems. She also played the part of goddess Guan Yin in the 2010 Chinese TV adaptation of Journey to the West
Journey to the West
Journey to the West is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. It was written by Wu Cheng'en in the 16th century. In English-speaking countries, the tale is also often known simply as Monkey. This was one title used for a popular, abridged translation by Arthur Waley...
, directed by Cheng Lidong .
In October 2009 Joan Chen was the curator of the first Singapore Sun Film Festival
Singapore sun festival
The Singapore Sun Festival is an annual music and life-style festival that runs over ten days and takes place in multiple venues across Singapore...
, whose theme was The Art of Living Well. She selected and curated five films for screening during the festival: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a translation of the French memoir Le scaphandre et le papillon by journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby. It describes what his life is like after suffering a massive stroke that left him with a condition called locked-in syndrome...
, Dead Man Walking
Dead Man Walking (film)
Dead Man Walking is a 1995 American drama film directed by Tim Robbins, who adapted the screenplay from the non-fiction book of the same name...
, Hannah and Her Sisters
Hannah and Her Sisters
Hannah and Her Sisters is a 1986 American comedy-drama film which tells the intertwined stories of an extended family over two years that begin and end with a family Thanksgiving dinner...
, Still Life and Edward Scissorhands
Edward Scissorhands
Edward Scissorhands is a 1990 romantic fantasy film directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp. The film shows the story of an artificial man named Edward, an unfinished creation, who has scissors for hands. Edward is taken in by a suburban family and falls in love with their teenage daughter...
.
In 2010, Chen joined the cast of Leehom Wang's directorial debut Lian ai tong gao ., Alexi Tan's Color Me Love (alongside Liu Ye), Ilkka Järvilaturi's Kiss, His First (alongside Tony Leung Ka-fai
Tony Leung Ka-Fai
Tony Leung Ka-fai is a three-time Hong Kong Film Award-winning Chinese film actor.Because he is often confused with actor Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Tony Leung Ka-fai is known as "Big Tony", while Tony Leung Chiu-Wai is known as "Little Tony", nicknames which correspond to the actors' respective...
and Kwai Lun-mei
Kwai Lun-mei
Kwai Lun-Mei is a Taiwanese actress. She started her acting career in the movie Blue Gate Crossing as Meng Ke Rou. Lun-Mei then appeared in a few more movies before she went on to gain more recognition in the movie Secret directed by Jay Chou, which Kwai acted as the female lead, Lu Xiao Yu with...
) and veteran acting coach Larry Moss' Relative Insanity (along with Juliette Binoche
Juliette Binoche
Juliette Binoche is a French actress, artist and dancer. She has appeared in more than 40 feature films, been recipient of numerous international accolades, is a published author and has appeared on stage across the world. Coming from an artistic background, she began taking acting lessons during...
). In May 2010, she was set to star and direct one of the three parts of the anthology film Seeing Red.
As of the 2011 episode 3.13 entitled "Immortality" she plays Secretary Bishop's girlfriend on the J.J. Abrams created sci-fi television series FRINGE
Fringe
Fringe may refer to* Fringe , that part of the hair overhanging the forehead, also known as bangs in American English* Fringe , an ornamental appendage to the border of an item* Fringe , a U.S...
.
Personal life
Chen married her second husband, cardiologist Peter Hui, on January 18, 1992. She was formerly married to actor Jimmy Lau from 1985 to 1990. Joan and her current husband have 2 daughters and live in San Francisco, USA but spend part of every year in Shanghai, China with Joan's family, so their daughters can be familiar with Chinese culture. Chen began the process of adopting twin girls from Nan Ning in 1998, but cancelled the adoption proceedings after becoming pregnant with her daughter.During her early years in California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
Chen attended California State University, Northridge
California State University, Northridge
California State University, Northridge is a public university in Northridge, a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles, California, United States....
. In 1989, she became a naturalized citizen of the United States. On April 9, 2008, Chen wrote an article entitled "Let the Games Go On" on the Washington Post, about the politicization of the 2008 Summer Olympics
2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to August 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees competed in 28 sports and 302 events...
in Beijing.
Charitable work
In May 2008, Chen appeared alongside James Kyson Lee and Amy Hanaialiʻi Gilliom in a public service announcement for the Banyan Tree Project campaign to stop HIV/AIDS-related stigma in Asian & Pacific Islander communities.In October 2008, Chen made the cover of Trends Health magazine alongside actresses Ke Lan and Ma Yili to promote the Chinese Pink Ribbon
Pink ribbon
The pink ribbon is an international symbol of breast cancer awareness. Pink ribbons, and the color pink in general, identify the wearer or promoter with the breast cancer brand and express moral support for women with breast cancer....
Breast Cancer Prevention campaign.
On January 8, 2010, Chen attended alongside Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi is the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives and served as the 60th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011...
, Nicole Kidman
Nicole Kidman
Nicole Mary Kidman, AC is an American-born Australian actress, singer, film producer, spokesmodel, and humanitarian. After starring in a number of small Australian films and TV shows, Kidman's breakthrough was in the 1989 thriller Dead Calm...
and Joe Torre
Joe Torre
Joseph Paul Torre is a former American professional baseball player and manager who currently serves as Major League Baseball’s Executive Vice President of Baseball Operations. A nine-time All-Star, he played in Major League Baseball as a catcher, first baseman and a third baseman for the...
the ceremony to help Family Violence Prevention Fund
Family Violence Prevention Fund
Futures Without Violence is a US-based 501 nonprofit focused on ending domestic and sexual violence...
break ground on a new international center located in the Presidio of San Francisco
Presidio of San Francisco
The Presidio of San Francisco is a park on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula in San Francisco, California, within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area...
intended to combat violence against women and children. During the ceremony, Chen performed an excerpt from the documentary play, "The Thumbprint of Mukhtar Mai" (presented as part of "Seven").
On January 15, 2010, Chen was set to appear, along with other Asian American personalities in a series of videos supporting the Center for the Pacific Asian Family.
Actress
| Year | Title | Chinese title | Role | Notes |
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| 1977 | Youth | 青春 (Qīngchūn) | Shen Yamei / 沈亞妹 | |
| 1979 | Little Flower | 小花 (Xiǎo Huā) | Zhao Xiaohua / 赵小花 | Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress Yugoslavia Film Festival Award for Best Actress |
| 1979 | Hearts for the Motherland | 海外赤子 (Hǎiwài chìzǐ) | Huang Sihua / 黃思華 | aka Overseas Compatriots, A Loyal Overseas Chinese Family |
| 1981 | Awakening | 甦醒 (Sūxǐng) | Su Xiaomei / 蘇小梅 | |
| 1986 | Goodbye My Love | 惡男 (È nán) | Ling Ti | |
| 1986 | Tai-Pan Tai-Pan (film) Tai-Pan is a 1986 film directed by Daryl Duke, loosely based on James Clavell's 1966 novel of the same name. While many of the same characters and plot twists are maintained, a few smaller occurrences are left out. Filmed under communist Chinese censorship, some portions of Clavell's story were... |
May–May | ||
| 1987 | The Last Emperor The Last Emperor The Last Emperor is a 1987 biopic about the life of Puyi, the last Emperor of China, whose autobiography was the basis for the screenplay written by Mark Peploe and Bernardo Bertolucci. Independently produced by Jeremy Thomas, it was directed by Bertolucci and released in 1987 by Columbia Pictures... |
Wan Jung Wan Rong Lady Gobulo, Empress Xiaokemin , better known as Empress Wanrong, was the Empress of Puyi, the last Emperor of China and final ruler of the Qing Dynasty. She became empress of the puppet state of Manchukuo when Puyi was declared emperor of that state by the Empire of Japan.-Early life and marriage... / 婉容 |
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| 1989 | The Blood of Heroes The Blood of Heroes The Blood of Heroes is a 1989 Australian post-apocalyptic film directed by David Webb Peoples and starring Rutger Hauer and Joan Chen. The film is also known by the names The Salute of the Jugger and Salute to the Jugger... |
Kidda | ||
| 1991 | Wedlock Wedlock (film) Wedlock, originally known as Deadlock, is a 1991 science fiction action film from Home Box Office , starring Rutger Hauer.-Cast:* Rutger Hauer ... Frank Warren* Mimi Rogers ... Tracy Riggs* Joan Chen ... Noelle... |
Noelle | ||
| 1992 | Turtle Beach Turtle Beach (film) Turtle Beach is a 1992 Australian film directed by Stephen Wallace and starring Greta Scacchi and Joan Chen. The screenplay was written by Ann Turner, based on the novel of the same name by Blanche d'Alpuget... |
Minou | ||
| 1992 | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me | Jocelyn 'Josie' Packard Josie Packard Jocelyn "Josie" Packard is a character from the television series Twin Peaks, created by David Lynch and Mark Frost. Played by Joan Chen, she is a classic "femme fatale" character.-Background:She is from Hong Kong, and is ethnic Chinese... |
scenes deleted | |
| 1993 | Heaven & Earth | Mama | ||
| 1993 | Temptation of a Monk Temptation of a Monk Temptation of A Monk is a 1993 Chinese language film starring Joan Chen and directed by Clara Law.-External links:*... |
誘僧 (Yòu sēng) | Princess Hong'e (Scarlet) / 公主紅萼 Lady Qingshou (Violet) / 青绶夫人 |
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| 1994 | Golden Gate Golden Gate (film) Golden Gate is a 1994 film produced by American Playhouse. It is the story of a 1950s G-Man who gets involved with the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Communist prosecutions, which leads him to become involved with a young Chinese-American woman , whose father he helped to put in prison. The... |
Marilyn | ||
| 1994 | Red Rose, White Rose | 紅玫瑰，白玫瑰 (Hóng méigui, bái méigui) | Wang Jiao-Rui / 王嬌蕊 | Golden Horse Award for Best Actress HKFCS Award Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards The Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards are the annual awards given by the Hong Kong Film Critics Society in Hong Kong, China since 1995. The awards are determined by votes cast in three rounds after a substantial discussion session between the members of the society... for Best Actress Nominated — HKFA Hong Kong Film Awards The Hong Kong Film Awards , founded in 1982, are the most prestigious film awards in Hong Kong and among the most respected in mainland China and Taiwan. Award ceremonies are held annually, typically in April. The Awards recognize achievement in all aspects of filmmaking, such as directing,... for Best Actress |
| 1994 | On Deadly Ground On Deadly Ground On Deadly Ground is a 1994 environmental action-adventure film, co-produced, directed by and starring Steven Seagal, and co-starring in an all-star cast, Michael Caine, Joan Chen, John C. McGinley, R. Lee Ermey, Kenji Nakano, and Billy Bob Thornton in one of his early appearances. The film held a... |
Masu | ||
| 1995 | The Hunted The Hunted (1995 film) The Hunted is a 1995 film written and directed by J. F. Lawton, starring Christopher Lambert, John Lone, and Joan Chen. The score features music by the Japanese taiko troupe Kodō.-Plot:... |
Kirina | ||
| 1995 | Wild Side | Virginia Chow | ||
| 1995 | Judge Dredd Judge Dredd (film) Judge Dredd is a 1995 American science fiction action film directed by Danny Cannon, and starring Sylvester Stallone, Diane Lane, Rob Schneider, Armand Assante, and Max von Sydow. The film is based on the strip of the same name in the British comic 2000 AD... |
Ilsa Hayden | ||
| 1996 | Precious Find Precious Find Precious Find is a 1996 science fiction film directed by Philippe Mora. The film is set on the Moon, in year 2049.-Plot:In the future. At Moon City, fate brings three adventurers together: a space ship owner, a young prospector and a shady entrepreneur who are heading for gold on an asteroid. There... |
Camilla Jones | ||
| 1999 | Purple Storm Purple Storm (film) Purple Storm is a 1999 Hong Kong science-fiction thriller directed by Teddy Chan was released on 25 October, 1999 and was officially released since on 25 November 1999... |
紫雨風暴 (Ji yu fung bou) | Shirley Kwan | |
| 2000 | What's Cooking? | Trinh Nguyen | ||
| 2004 | Avatar Avatar (2004 film) Avatar , also known as Matrix Hunter , Avatar Exile , Cyber Wars is a Singaporean science fiction film directed by Kuo Jian Hong... |
Madame Ong | ||
| 2004 | Jasmine Women Jasmine Women Jasmine Women is a 2004 film, adapted from Su Tong's novel called Funü Shenghuo which means Women's Lives. It is directed by Hou Yong, formerly a well known cinematographer. Zhang Ziyi plays the youngest of three generations of women who leads lives in Shanghai. Joan Chen plays the... |
茉莉花开 (Mòlìhuā kāi) | Mo's Mother / 茉的母亲 Mo / 茉 |
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| 2004 | Saving Face | Hwei-Lan Gao | ||
| 2005 | Sunflower Sunflower (2005 film) Sunflower is a 2006 Chinese film directed by Zhang Yang. Zhang's fourth film, Sunflower is a joint production of Ming Productions, the Beijing Film Studio and the Hong Kong subsidiary of the Netherlands-based Fortissimo Films... |
向日葵 (Xiàngrìkuí) | Zhang Xiuqing | |
| 2006 | Americanese Americanese Americanese is a 2006 American independent film acquired by IFC Films but not yet released. It is a romantic drama about the break-up of a couple, about love and memory, and how race plays into the lives of contemporary Asian Americans and Hapa/mixed-race Americans.- Background :The film was... |
Betty Nguyen | ||
| 2007 | The Home Song Stories The Home Song Stories The Home Song Stories is an Australian film released in 2007. Written and directed by acclaimed Tony Ayres of Walking on Water , The Home Song Stories stars Joan Chen, Joel Lok, Qi Yu Wu, Irene Chen, Steven Vidler and Kerry Walker.... |
意 (Yì) | Rose Hong / 洪玫瑰 | Golden Horse Award for Best Actress IF Award Inside Film Awards The Inside Film Awards is an annual awards ceremony and broadcast platform for the Australian film industry, a format created by Australian Producer Andrew Dillon... for Best Actress TFF Award 25th Torino Film Festival The 25th Torino Film Festival was held 23 November – 1 December 2007 in Turin, Italy and was directed by Nanni Moretti.-Films in competition:*The Art of Negative Thinking *Away from Her... for Best Actress AFI Award Australian Film Institute Awards The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award, known as the AACTA Award , is an accolade presented annually by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts . The awards recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry and television industry, including directors,... for Best Actress FCCA Award for Best Actress Nominated — AF Award Asian Film Awards The Asian Film Awards are presented annually by the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society to recognize excellence of film professionals in the film industries of Asian cinema.-History:... for Best Actress Nominated — APS Award for Best Actress |
| 2007 | The Sun Also Rises | 太阳照常升起 (Tàiyáng zhàocháng shēngqǐ) | Dr. Lin / 林大夫 | AF Award Asian Film Awards The Asian Film Awards are presented annually by the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society to recognize excellence of film professionals in the film industries of Asian cinema.-History:... for Best Supporting Actress |
| 2007 | All God's Children Can Dance | Evelyn | ||
| 2007 | Lust, Caution | 色，戒 (Sè, jiè) | Mrs. Yee / 易太太 | |
| 2008 | The Leap Years The Leap Years The Leap Years is a Singapore film produced by MediaCorp Raintree Pictures, based on the novella Leap of Love by the author Catherine Lim. The production for the film started in 2005, and the film was initially to be released in December 2005 release... |
Li-Ann (age 49) | ||
| 2008 | Shi Qi | 十七 (Shí Qī) | Mother / 母亲 | SIFF Shanghai International Film Festival The Shanghai International Film Festival , abbreviated SIFF, is one of the largest film festivals in East Asia.Along with Tokyo International Film Festival, the SIFF is one of the biggest film festivals in Asia. The first festival was held from October 7 to 14, 1993, and was held biennially until... Press Prize for Most Attractive Actress |
| 2008 | 24 City 24 City 24 City is a 2008 film directed and co-written by Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke. The film follows three generations of characters in Chengdu as a state-owned factory gives way to a modern apartment complex... |
二十四城记 (Èrshí sì chéng jì) | Gu Minhua / 顾敏华 | |
| 2009 | Mao's Last Dancer Mao's Last Dancer (film) Mao's Last Dancer is a 2009 Australian biographical film, directed by Bruce Beresford, based on ballet dancer Li Cunxin's autobiography Mao's Last Dancer. Li Cunxin is portrayed by Birmingham Royal Ballet Principal Dancer Chi Cao , Australian Ballet dancer Chengwu Guo and Huang Wen Bin... |
Niang / 娘 | ||
| 2010 | Love in Disguise | 恋爱通告 (Liàn ài tōng gào) | Joan | |
| 2010 | Color Me Love | 爱出色 (Ài chū sè) | Zoe | |
| 2011 | 1911 | 辛亥革命 (Xīnhài gémìng) | Longyu Empress Dowager Longyu Empress Xiao Ding Jing ; is better known as the Empress Dowager Longyu , . Also , she had the nickname was Xizi （喜子）. Empress Xiao Ding Jing was the Qing Dynasty Empress Consort of the Guangxu Emperor who ruled China from 1875 till 1908... / 隆裕 |
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| 2011 | Kiss, His First | 初吻 (Chū wěn) | in production | |
| 2011 | Love Island | 熱愛島 (Yit oi dou) | in production | |
| 2012 | White Frog | Irene Young | in production | |
| 2012 | 二次曝光 (Èrcì pùguāng) | in production | ||
| 2013 | Relative Insanity | Pearl | pre-production | |
| n/a | Seeing Red | also director - announced |
| Year | Title | Chinese title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | MacGyver MacGyver MacGyver is an American action-adventure television series created by Lee David Zlotoff. Henry Winkler and John Rich were the executive producers. The show ran for seven seasons on ABC in the United States and various other networks abroad from 1985 to 1992. The series was filmed in Los Angeles... |
Lin | Episode 1.2 The Golden Triangle | |
| 1985 | Miami Vice Miami Vice Miami Vice is an American television series produced by Michael Mann for NBC. The series starred Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as two Metro-Dade Police Department detectives working undercover in Miami. It ran for five seasons on NBC from 1984–1989... |
May Ying | Episode 1.14 Golden Triangle | |
| 1989 | Wiseguy Wiseguy Wiseguy is an American crime drama series that aired on CBS from September 16, 1987 to December 8, 1990 for a total of four seasons. Starring Ken Wahl, the series was produced by Stephen J... |
Maxine Tzu | Episode All or Nothing | |
| 1990 | Twin Peaks Twin Peaks Twin Peaks is an American television serial drama created by David Lynch and Mark Frost. The series follows the investigation headed by FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper , of the murder of a popular teenager and homecoming queen, Laura Palmer... |
Jocelyn 'Josie' Packard Josie Packard Jocelyn "Josie" Packard is a character from the television series Twin Peaks, created by David Lynch and Mark Frost. Played by Joan Chen, she is a classic "femme fatale" character.-Background:She is from Hong Kong, and is ethnic Chinese... |
TV series — Series regular (2 seasons, 1990–1991) | |
| 1992 | Strangers | The Girl | TV movie | |
| 1992 | Shadow of a Stranger | Vanessa | TV movie | |
| 1992 | Nightmare Cafe Nightmare Cafe Nightmare Cafe is a short-lived American telefantasy program which aired on NBC for an abridged first season from January to April 1992. While the overall tone of the program was that of a mystical fantasy, it frequently incorporated elements of dark humor, horror, and even outright comedy. A total... |
First customer | Episode 1.1 Nightmare Cafe | |
| 1993 | Tales from the Crypt Tales from the Crypt (TV series) Tales from the Crypt, sometimes titled HBO's Tales from the Crypt, is an American horror anthology television series that ran from 1989 to 1996 on the premium cable channel HBO... |
Connie | Episode 5.4 Food for Thought | |
| 1997 | Homicide: Life on the Street Homicide: Life on the Street Homicide: Life on the Street is an American police procedural television series chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Homicide Unit. It ran for seven seasons on NBC from 1993 to 1999, and was succeeded by a TV movie, which also acted as the de-facto series finale... |
Elizabeth Wu | Episode 5.15 Wu's on First? | |
| 1998 | The Outer Limits The Outer Limits (1995 TV series) The Outer Limits is an American television series that originally aired on Showtime,the Sci Fi Channel and in syndication between 1995 and 2002... |
Major Dara Talif | Episode 4.24 Phobos Rising Phobos Rising "Phobos Rising" is an episode of The Outer Limits television show. It was first broadcast on December 4, 1998 during the fourth season.-Opening narration:-Synopsis:... |
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| 1999 | In a Class of His Own | Linda Ching | TV movie | |
| 2009 | Newcomers to the Middle-Aged | 人到中年 (Réndào zhōngnián) | Tian Wenjie / 田文洁 | TV series |
| 2010 | Journey to the West | 西游记 (Xī yóu jì) | Guan Yin / 观音 | TV series |
| 2011 | Fringe Fringe (TV series) Fringe is an American science fiction television series created by J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. The series follows a Federal Bureau of Investigation "Fringe Division" team based in Boston, Massachusetts under the supervision of Homeland Security... |
Reiko | Episode 3.13 Immortality Immortality (Fringe) "Immortality" is the 13th episode of the third season of the American science fiction drama television series Fringe, and the 56th episode overall.-Plot:... |
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| 2012 | Hemingway & Gellhorn Hemingway & Gellhorn Hemingway & Gellhorn is an upcoming HBO film about the lives of journalist Martha Gellhorn and her husband, writer Ernest Hemingway. It will be directed by Philip Kaufman. The film began shooting in San Francisco in March 2011... |
Madame Chiang | HBO TV movie — in production |
Director
| Year | Title | Chinese title | Notes |
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| 1998 | Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl is a 1998 Chinese film directed by actress Joan Chen based during the 1970s in People's Republic of China, during the Cultural Revolution's Down to the Countryside Movement, instituted by Mao for political reasons. This drama film is the directorial debut of Chen... |
天浴 (Tiān Yù) | Golden Horse Award for Best Director Mons International Love Film Festival Grand Prize National Board of Review International Freedom Award Paris Film Festival Special Jury Prize FLIFF Jury Award for Best Drama Nominated — Golden Bear Golden Bear According to legend, the Golden Bear was a large golden Ursus arctos. Members of the Ursus arctos species can reach masses of . The Grizzly Bear and the Kodiak Bear are North American subspecies of the Brown Bear.... Award Nominated — Paris Film Festival Grand Prize Nominated — Chlotrudis Award Chlotrudis Awards 2000 The 6th Annual Chlotrudis Awards were presented April 8, 2000, by the Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film. Honoring the best of the past year's independent, documentary and international film, the awards ceremony took place at the Berklee College of Music's David Friend Recital Hall... for Best Director |
| 2000 | Autumn in New York Autumn in New York (film) Autumn in New York is a 2000 romantic drama film directed by Joan Chen and starring Richard Gere, Winona Ryder, and Anthony LaPaglia.The movie focuses on Will Keane who falls in love with Charlotte Fielding , a sweet, but terminally ill young woman.-Plot:Will Keane, a 48-year old restaurant owner,... |
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| n/a | Seeing Red | also starring - announced |
Writer
| Year | Title | Chinese title | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl is a 1998 Chinese film directed by actress Joan Chen based during the 1970s in People's Republic of China, during the Cultural Revolution's Down to the Countryside Movement, instituted by Mao for political reasons. This drama film is the directorial debut of Chen... |
天浴 (Tiān Yù) | Golden Horse Award for Best Screenplay Adapted from Another Medium shared with Geling Yan Geling Yan Geling Yan is a Chinese writer, author of several novels, short stories and screenplays. Much of her work has been adapted for film. She is currently represented by the Hong Kong based .-Biography:... |
Producer
| Year | Title | Chinese title | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Wild Side | Associate producer | |
| 1998 | Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl is a 1998 Chinese film directed by actress Joan Chen based during the 1970s in People's Republic of China, during the Cultural Revolution's Down to the Countryside Movement, instituted by Mao for political reasons. This drama film is the directorial debut of Chen... |
天浴 (Tiān Yù) | Producer, Executive producer Nominated — Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature Over $500,000 shared with Alice Chan Wai-Chung |
Other media
- 2008: "Shanghai," narrator—an audio walking tour by Louis VuittonLouis VuittonLouis Vuitton Malletier – commonly referred to as Louis Vuitton , or shortened to LV – is a French fashion house founded in 1854 by Louis Vuitton. The label is well known for its LV monogram, which is featured on most products, ranging from luxury trunks and leather goods to ready-to-wear, shoes,...
and Soundwalk
Awards and nominations
| Year | Award | Category | Film | Result |
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| 1980 | Hundred Flowers Awards | Best Actress | Little Flower | |
| Yugoslavia International Film Festival | Best Actress | |||
| 1994 | Asian American International Film Festival | Asian Media Award for significant contribution to Asian American media | ||
| Golden Horse Awards | Best Actress | Red Rose, White Rose | ||
| 1995 | Hong Kong Film Awards Hong Kong Film Awards The Hong Kong Film Awards , founded in 1982, are the most prestigious film awards in Hong Kong and among the most respected in mainland China and Taiwan. Award ceremonies are held annually, typically in April. The Awards recognize achievement in all aspects of filmmaking, such as directing,... |
Best Actress | ||
| Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards The Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards are the annual awards given by the Hong Kong Film Critics Society in Hong Kong, China since 1995. The awards are determined by votes cast in three rounds after a substantial discussion session between the members of the society... |
Best Actress | |||
| 1998 | Golden Horse Awards | Best Director | Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl is a 1998 Chinese film directed by actress Joan Chen based during the 1970s in People's Republic of China, during the Cultural Revolution's Down to the Countryside Movement, instituted by Mao for political reasons. This drama film is the directorial debut of Chen... |
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| Best Screenplay Adapted from Another Medium shared with Geling Yan | ||||
| Berlin International Film Festival Berlin International Film Festival The Berlin International Film Festival , also called the Berlinale, is one of the world's leading film festivals and most reputable media events. It is held in Berlin, Germany. Founded in West Berlin in 1951, the festival has been celebrated annually in February since 1978... |
Golden Berlin Bear | |||
| Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival | Jury Award | |||
| 1999 | Paris Film Festival | Grand Prize | ||
| Special Jury Prize | ||||
| Mons International Love Film Festival | Grand Prize | |||
| National Board of Review | International Freedom Award | |||
| 2000 | Independent Spirit Awards Independent Spirit Awards The Independent Spirit Awards , founded in 1984, are awards dedicated to independent filmmakers. Winners were typically presented with acrylic glass pyramids containing suspended shoestrings representing the paltry budgets of independent films. In 1986, the event was renamed the Independent Spirit... |
Best First Feature Over $500,000 shared with Alice Chan Wai-Chung | ||
| Chlotrudis Awards Chlotrudis Awards 2000 The 6th Annual Chlotrudis Awards were presented April 8, 2000, by the Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film. Honoring the best of the past year's independent, documentary and international film, the awards ceremony took place at the Berklee College of Music's David Friend Recital Hall... |
Best Director | |||
| 2007 | Golden Horse Awards | Best Actress | The Home Song Stories The Home Song Stories The Home Song Stories is an Australian film released in 2007. Written and directed by acclaimed Tony Ayres of Walking on Water , The Home Song Stories stars Joan Chen, Joel Lok, Qi Yu Wu, Irene Chen, Steven Vidler and Kerry Walker.... |
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| Hawaii International Film Festival Hawaii International Film Festival The Hawaii International Film Festival is a film festival held in the U.S. state of Hawaii. It was started in 1981 by Jeannette Paulson Hereniko and has been held annually in the fall for two weeks... |
Achievement in Acting | |||
| Asia Pacific Screen Awards Asia Pacific Screen Awards The Asia Pacific Screen Awards is an international cultural initiative of the State Government of Queensland, Australia, through Events Queensland, to honour and promote the films, actors, directors, and cultures of Asia-Pacific to a global audience and to realise the objectives of UNESCO to... |
Best Performance by an Actress | |||
| Inside Film Awards Inside Film Awards The Inside Film Awards is an annual awards ceremony and broadcast platform for the Australian film industry, a format created by Australian Producer Andrew Dillon... |
Best Actress | |||
| Torino Film Festival 25th Torino Film Festival The 25th Torino Film Festival was held 23 November – 1 December 2007 in Turin, Italy and was directed by Nanni Moretti.-Films in competition:*The Art of Negative Thinking *Away from Her... |
Best Actress | |||
| Australian Film Institute Awards Australian Film Institute Awards The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award, known as the AACTA Award , is an accolade presented annually by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts . The awards recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry and television industry, including directors,... |
Best Actress | |||
| 2008 | Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards | Best Actress | ||
| Asian Film Awards Asian Film Awards The Asian Film Awards are presented annually by the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society to recognize excellence of film professionals in the film industries of Asian cinema.-History:... |
Best Actress | |||
| Best Supporting Actress | The Sun Also Rises The Sun Also Rises The Sun Also Rises is a 1926 novel written by American author Ernest Hemingway about a group of American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights. An early and enduring modernist novel, it received... |
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| Shanghai International Film Festival Shanghai International Film Festival The Shanghai International Film Festival , abbreviated SIFF, is one of the largest film festivals in East Asia.Along with Tokyo International Film Festival, the SIFF is one of the biggest film festivals in Asia. The first festival was held from October 7 to 14, 1993, and was held biennially until... |
Press Prize for Most Attractive Actress | Shi Qi |
Other recognition
- In 1992 PeoplePeople (magazine)In 1998, the magazine introduced a version targeted at teens called Teen People. However, on July 27, 2006, the company announced it would shut down publication of Teen People immediately. The last issue to be released was scheduled for September 2006. Subscribers to this magazine received...
magazine chose her as one of the 50 most beautiful women in the world. - Chen inspired indie rock band Xiu XiuXiu XiuXiu Xiu is an American avant-garde group originally from San Jose, California. The band is the brainchild of singer-songwriter Jamie Stewart, who has been its only constant member since its inception in 2002. His current bandmate is Angela Seo...
, named after her film Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl. - Chen was chosen by GoldseaGoldseaGoldsea.com is a large, fully featured magazine site. It is aimed at Asian Americans and publishes interviews and profiles of successful Asian Americans. The "Goldsea 100" celebrates high-achieving Asian American businesspeople and includes several billionaires, including one aged only 32...
as Number 45 on its compilation of "The 120 Most Inspiring Asian Americans of All Time".
External links
Joan Chen at the Chinese Movie Database- Joan Chen at Yahoo! Movies
- Joan Chen at Allmovie
- Joan Chen at Art and Culture
- Joan Chen profile at EmanuelLevy.com
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