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Joan Chen a Chinese American actress, film director, screenwriter, and film producer known for her role in the 1987 film The Last Emperor, in Red Rose, White Rose, Twin Peaks, Saving Face, and The Home Song Stories. She is as well working for directing the feature film Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl. She appeared the 1979 film Little Flower (“小花”) in China.
Joan Chen Age
Chen was born on 26 April 1961 in Shanghai, China.
Joan Chen Film Work
Chen performed nearby Tang Guoqiang in Zhang Zheng’s Little Flower in 1979, for which she won the Hundred Flowers Award. Chen depicted a pre-Maoist progressive’s little girl, who, rejoiced with her sibling, an injured Communist trooper, later discovered that his PCP was her natural mother.
Little Flower was her subsequent film and she before long accomplished the status of China’s most cherished on-screen character; she was named “The Elizabeth Taylor of China” by Time magazine for having accomplished fame while still a young person. Chen was in the 1979 film Hearts for the Motherland.
The melodies, “I Love You, China” and “High Flies the Petrel”, sung by Chen’s character, are enduring top choices in China. In 1981, Chen featured in Awakening, coordinated by Teng Wenji. At age 20, Chen moved to the United States, where she considered filmmaking at California State University, Northridge.
The honor winning film was adjusted from a novel by Lilian Lee. In 1996, she was an individual from the jury at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival. Tired of being given a role as a fascinating wonder in Hollywood movies, Chen moved into coordinating in 1998 with the widely praised Xiu: The Sent Down Girl, adjusted from the novella Heavenly Bath by her companion Yan Gelling.
In the 2000s, Chen made a rebound in acting and started to work strongly, shifting back and forth among English and Chinese-language jobs. She featured in the Asian American autonomous film Americanese and in Michael Almereyda’s Tonight at Noon, the initial segment of a two-section venture, planned to be discharged in 2009.
In 2007, Chen was acclaimed for her presentation in Tony Ayres’ show The Home Song Stories. The job earned her four honors including the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress and the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress. That year Joan depicted in Jia Zhangke’s 24 City an assembly line laborer once liked on the grounds that she took after Chen herself in the 1979 film Little Flower, yet who botched her opportunity at adoration.
In 2009, Chen featured close by Feng Yuanzheng and Liu Jinshan in the Chinese TV arrangement Newcomers to the Middle-Aged, coordinated by Dou Qi, in which she played a female specialist confronting middle-age issues. In October 2009 Joan was the guardian of the main Singapore Sun Film Festival, whose subject was “The Art of Living Well”.
In 2010, Chen joined the cast of Leehom Wang’s directorial debut Lian ai tong gao. Chen was given a role as the Yuan ruler Chabi in the 2014 American TV arrangement Marco Polo. Being to some degree new to the Mongols, Chen read The Secret History of the Mongol Queens so as to get ready for the job.
Joan Chen Home
Joan was congratulated for her performance in Tony Ayre’s drama The Home Song Stories. Home Song Stories is an Australian film released in 2007. It was written and directed by acclaimed Tony Ayres of Walking on Water in 2002. The song stars Joan Chen, Joel Lok, Qi Yuwu, Irene Chen, Steve Vidler, and Kerry Walker.
Joan Chen Twin Peaks
Chen was cast as Jocelyn “Josie” Packard, Catherine’s sister-in-law, and owner of the lucrative Twin Peaks mill in the American mystery horror drama television series Twin Peaks.
Joan Chen The Last Emperor
Chen was cast as Wanrong, Puyi’s wife in the 1987 epic biographical drama film, The Last Emperor.
Joan Chen Judge Dredd
She was cast as Dr. Ilsa Hayden, Herman’s assistant in the 1995 American science fiction action film Judge Dredd.
Joan Chen The Hunted
She was cast as Kirina, a character who later dies, in the 1995 American martial-arts thriller film The Hunted.
Joan Chen Net Worth
Chen, has an estimated net worth of 5 million
Joan Chen Education
Chen joined and later graduated from high school a year at the age of 16. She later enrolled to a prestigious Shanghai International Studies University, where she studied English.
Joan Chen Height and Weight
Joan stands tall a height of 5′ feet 4′ inches and weight of 117 Ibs.
Joan Chen Family
Joan was born to a pharmacologists Chen Xingrong and pharmacologists Zhang Anzhong. She was raised up along with her sibling brother Chuan Chen. Her parents raised them during the Cultural Revolution.
Joan Chen Husband
Chen was first married actor Jimmy Lau in 1985 and separated in 1990. She is currently married to cardiologist Peter Hui. The pair is married on January 18, 1992 and have been blessed together with two daughters and both the family live in San Francisco, California.