Played a caring and compassionate mother to a rebellious teenager in the coming of age comedy-drama Dìdi directed by Sean Wang
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Joan Chen
Joan Chen is a Chinese-born American actress and film director. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including four Taipei Golden Horse Awards and an AACTA Award. She made her film debut in the Chinese film Youth (1977) before starring in the film Little Flower (1979). She came to the attention of American audiences for her portrayal of Wanrong in the Bernardo Bertolucci historical epic fil…
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Born 26 April 1961 · Q270672
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2023· 1 entry
2014· 1 entry
Chen served as a jury member at the 71st Venice International Film Festival
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2011· 1 entry
Chen played Secretary Bishop's girlfriend on the television series Fringe episode "Immortality"
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2010· 3 entries
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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Chen attended, alongside Nancy Pelosi, Nicole Kidman, and Joe Torre, the ceremony to help Family Violence Prevention Fund break ground on a new center located in the Presidio of San Francisco intended to combat violence
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Chen joined the cast of Wang Leehom's directorial debut Love in Disguise, Alexi Tan's (陈奕利; 陳奕利; Chén Yìlì) Color Me Love (爱出色; 愛出色; Ài Chūsè; alongside Liu Ye), Ilkka Järvi-Laturi's Kiss, His First (alongside Tony Leung
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2009· 1 entry
Chen starred alongside Feng Yuanzheng and Liu Jinshan in the Chinese TV series Newcomers to the Middle-Aged (人到中年; Rén Dào Zhōngnián), directed by Dou Qi (斗琪; Dòu Qí), in which she played a female doctor facing middle-ag
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2008· 2 entries
Chen wrote an article entitled "Let the Games Go On" for The Washington Post objecting to the politicization of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing
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Starred alongside Sam Chow (simplified Chinese: 邹爽; traditional Chinese: 鄒爽; pinyin: Zōu Shuǎng) in Shi Qi (十七; Shíqī), directed by Joe Chow (姬诚; 姬誠; Jī Chéng), as a rural mother of a 17-year-old in eastern Zhejiang
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2007· 4 entries
Awarded Asian Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Sun Also Rises (2007).
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Awarded AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for The Home Song Stories (2007).
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Won Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress for The Home Song Stories (2007).
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Chen was acclaimed for her performance in Tony Ayres' drama The Home Song Stories
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2005· 1 entry
Appeared in Zhang Yang's family saga Sunflower, as a mother whose husband and son have a troubled father-son relationship over 30 years
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2004· 2 entries
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
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When it released it was rare to see works on topics related to Asian LGBTQ+ community
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1998· 2 entries
Won Golden Horse Award for Best Director for Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl (1998).
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With the critically acclaimed Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl, adapted from the novella Celestial Bath (Chinese: 天浴; pinyin: Tiān Yù) by her friend Geling Yan
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1996· 1 entry
Served as a jury member at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival
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1994· 2 entries
Won Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress for Red Rose White Rose (1994).
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Co-starred with Steven Seagal in the action-adventure On Deadly Ground
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1993· 1 entry
Co-starred in Oliver Stone's Heaven & Earth
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1992· 1 entry
Chen married her second husband, cardiologist Peter Hui
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1989· 1 entry
Became a naturalized citizen of the United States
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1985· 2 entries
From 1985 to 1990, Chen was married to actor Jim "Jimmy" Lau.
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Appeared in the American television show Miami Vice as May Ying, former wife of Martin Castillo and husband to Ma Sek in the episode "Golden Triangle (Part II)"
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1981· 2 entries
Chen starred in Awakening (苏醒; 甦醒; Sūxǐng), directed by Teng Wenji
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Chen left China to study at the State University of New York at New Paltz, before transferring to the California State University, Northridge
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1980· 1 entry
Awarded Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress (1980).
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1979· 1 entry
For which she won the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress
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1975· 1 entry
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
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1961· 1 entry
Born 1961-04-26.
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