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Joan Chen (born April 26, 1961) is a Chinese-American actress and film director. In China, she performed in the 1979 film Little Flower [zh] and came to the attention of American audiences for her performance in the 1987 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.

Joan Chen
Joan Chen in 2012
Born	陳沖 (Chen Chong) (1961-04-26) April 26, 1961 (age 61) Shanghai, China
Occupation	Actress, director
Years active	1975–present
Spouses	Jim Lau ​ ​ (m. 1985; div. 1990)​ Peter Hui ​ (m. 1992)​
Children	2
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	陳冲
Simplified Chinese	陈冲
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Chén Chōng Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Can4 Cung1

Early life

Chen was born in Shanghai, to a family of pharmacologists.[1] 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 figure, for 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 [fr][2] 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 Shanghai International Studies University, where she majored in English.[3]

Career

Early career in China

Chen performed alongside Tang Guoqiang in Zhang Zheng's (simplified Chinese: 张铮; traditional Chinese: 張錚; pinyin: Zhāng Zhēng) Little Flower [zh] in 1979, for which she won the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress. 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.[2]

In addition, Chen was in the 1979 film Hearts for the Motherland [zh]. The film directed by Ou Fan (欧凡; 歐凡; Ōu Fán) and Xing Jitian (邢吉田; Xíng Jítián) 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" (高飞的海燕; 高飛的海燕; Gāofēi de Hǎiyàn), sung by Chen's character, are perennial favorites in China. In 1981, Chen starred in Awakening (苏醒; 甦醒; Sūxǐng), directed by Teng Wenji [zh].

Hollywood breakout

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. In 1985 she appeared in the U.S. television show Miami Vice as May Ying, former wife of Martin Castillo and husband to Ma Sek in the episode "Golden Triangle (Part II)". 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. She starred alongside Rutger Hauer in 1989's The Blood of Heroes, written and directed by David Webb Peoples. 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. She shaved her head on-screen for the role. The award-winning film was adapted from a novel by Lilian Lee.

In 1994 she co-starred with Steven Seagal in the action-adventure On Deadly Ground; she returned to 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. In 1996, she was a member of the jury at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival.[4]

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 Celestial Bath (Chinese: 天浴; pinyin: Tiān Yù) by her friend Yan Geling. She later directed Autumn in New York, starring Richard Gere and Winona Ryder, in 2000.

Later career

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 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 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.[5]

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 1970s Australia with her two children. 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 (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 province.[6][7] The same year Joan Chen portrayed a factory worker in Jia Zhangke's 24 City once fancied because she resembled Chen herself in the 1979 film Little Flower, but who missed her chance at love.

She co-starred in Bruce Beresford's 2009 adaptation of the autobiography of dancer Li Cunxin, Mao's Last Dancer, along with Wang Shuangbao (王双宝; 王雙寶; Wáng Shuāngbǎo) and Kyle MacLachlan.[8]

In 2009, Chen starred alongside Feng Yuanzheng and Liu Jinshan [zh] 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-age problems.[9] She also played the part of goddess Guan Yin in the 2010 Chinese TV adaptation of Journey to the West, directed by Cheng Lidong (程力栋; 程力棟; Chéng Lìdòng).[10]

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.[11][12]

In 2010, Chen joined the cast of Leehom Wang's directorial debut Love in Disguise,[13] 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),[14] Ilkka Järvi-Laturi's Kiss, His First (alongside Tony Leung Ka-fai and Gwei Lun-mei)[15] 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.[16][17]

In 2011, she played Secretary Bishop's girlfriend on the television series Fringe episode "Immortality".[18] Chen was cast as the Mongol Yuan Dynasty empress Chabi in the 2014 American television series Marco Polo. Being somewhat unfamiliar with the Mongols, Chen read The Secret History of the Mongol Queens in order to prepare for the role.[19] She also appeared in several episodes of the 2018 Chinese television drama Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace as Ula Nara Yixiu (the Empress Xiaojingxian).[20]

Personal life

Chen was formerly 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 daughters.[21] They live in San Francisco, California.

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" for the Washington Post objecting to the politicization of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.[22]

Charitable work

In May 2008, Chen appeared alongside James Kyson Lee, Silas Flensted, 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.[23][24]

In October 2008, Chen made the cover of Trends Health magazine alongside actresses Ke Lan (Chinese: 柯蓝) and Ma Yili (Chinese: 马伊琍) 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 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").[25][26][27]

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.[28]

Filmography

Actress

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1977	Youth 青春	Shen Yamei / 沈亞妹
1979	Little Flower 小花	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	Huang Sihua / 黃思華	aka Overseas Compatriots, A Loyal Overseas Chinese Family
1981	Awakening 甦醒	Su Xiaomei / 蘇小梅
1986	Goodbye My Love 惡男	Ling Ti
	Tai-Pan	May–May
1987	The Night Stalker	Mai Wing
	The Last Emperor	Wan Jung / 婉容
1989	The Blood of Heroes	Kidda	Alternate title: The Salute of the Jugger
1991	Wedlock	Noelle
1992	Turtle Beach	Minou
	Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me	Jocelyn 'Josie' Packard	Scene deleted – see Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
1993	Heaven & Earth	Mama
	Temptation of a Monk 誘僧	Princess Hong'e (Scarlet) / 公主紅萼 Lady Qingshou (Violet) / 青绶夫人
1994	Golden Gate	Marilyn
	Red Rose White Rose 紅玫瑰，白玫瑰	Wang Jiao-Rui / 王嬌蕊	Golden Horse Award for Best Actress HKFCS Award for Best Actress Nominated — HKFA for Best Actress
	On Deadly Ground	Masu
1995	The Hunted	Kirina
	Wild Side	Virginia Chow
	Judge Dredd	Ilsa Hayden
1996	Precious Find	Camilla Jones
1999	Purple Storm 紫雨風暴	Shirley Kwan
2000	What's Cooking?	Trinh Nguyen
2004	Avatar	Madame Ong
	Jasmine Women 茉莉花开	Mo's Mother / 茉的母亲 Mo / 茉
	Saving Face	Hwei-Lan Gao
2005	Sunflower 向日葵	Xiuqing / 秀清
2006	Americanese	Betty Nguyen
2007	The Home Song Stories 意	Rose Hong / 洪玫瑰	Golden Horse Award for Best Actress IF Award for Best Actress TFF Award for Best Actress AFI Award for Best Actress FCCA Award for Best Actress Nominated — AF Award for Best Actress Nominated — APS Award for Best Actress
	The Sun Also Rises 太阳照常升起	Dr. Lin / 林大夫	AF Award for Best Supporting Actress
	All God's Children Can Dance	Evelyn
	Lust, Caution 色，戒	Mrs. Yee / 易太太
2008	The Leap Years	Li-Ann (age 49)
	Shi Qi 十七	Mother / 母亲	SIFF Press Prize for Most Attractive Actress
	24 City 二十四城记	Gu Minhua / 顾敏华
2009	Mao's Last Dancer	Niang / 娘
2010	Love in Disguise 恋爱通告	Joan
	Color Me Love 爱出色	Zoe
2011	1911 辛亥革命	Empress Longyu / 隆裕
	Kiss, His First 初吻
2012	White Frog	Irene Young
	Passion Island 熱愛島	Johanna / 祖安娜
	Let It Be 稍安勿躁	Niu Jie / 牛姐
	Double Xposure 二次曝光	Dr. Hao / 郝医生
2014	For Love or Money 露水红颜
	Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces	Jocelyn 'Josie' Packard
2015	You Are My Sunshine 何以笙箫默
	Lady of the Dynasty 王朝的女人·楊貴妃	Consort Wu
	Cairo Declaration 開羅宣言	Soong Ching-ling
2019	Sheep Without a Shepherd	Laoorn
2020	Tigertail	Yuan
	Ava	Toni
2021	Under the Light

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	Knight Rider	Su-Lin	Episode 3.1 Knight of the Drones
1985	MacGyver	Lin	Episode 1.2 The Golden Triangle
	Miami Vice	May Ying	Episode 1.14 Golden Triangle
1989	Wiseguy	Maxine Tzu	Episode All or Nothing
1990	Twin Peaks	Jocelyn 'Josie' Packard	TV series — Series regular (2 seasons, 1990–1991)
1992	Strangers	The Girl	TV movie
	Shadow of a Stranger	Vanessa
Nightmare Cafe	First customer	Episode 1.1 Nightmare Cafe
1993	Tales from the Crypt	Connie	Episode 5.4 Food for Thought
1997	Homicide: Life on the Street	Elizabeth Wu	Episode 5.15 Wu's on First?
1998	The Outer Limits	Major Dara Talif	Episode 4.24 Phobos Rising
1999	In a Class of His Own	Linda Ching	TV movie
2009	Newcomers to the Middle-Aged 人到中年	Tian Wenjie / 田文洁	TV series
2010	Journey to the West 西游记	Guan Yin / 观音
2011	Fringe	Reiko	Episode 3.13 Immortality
2012	Hemingway & Gellhorn	Madame Chiang Kai-shek	HBO TV movie
	Heroes of Sui and Tang Dynasties 隋唐英雄	Empress Dugu / 独孤后	TV series
2013	Serangoon Road	Patricia Cheng
	Meng's Palace 海上孟府	Er Jie / 二姐
2014	Marco Polo	Chabi	TV series
2017	Twin Peaks	Jocelyn 'Josie' Packard	Episode: "Part 17"; archive footage
2018	Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace	Ula Nara Yixiu	[29]

Director

Year	English Title	Chinese title	Notes
1998	Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl	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 Award Nominated — Paris Film Festival Grand Prize
2000	Autumn in New York
2012	Shanghai Strangers	非典情人 (Fēidiǎn qíngrén)	short film — post-production (also known as 爱在非典的日子)
2018	English	英格力士

Writer

Year	English Title	Chinese title	Notes
1998	Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl	天浴 (Tiān Yù)	Golden Horse Award for Best Screenplay Adapted from Another Medium shared with Geling Yan
2012	Shanghai Strangers	非典情人 (Fēidiǎn qíngrén)	short film — post-production (also known as 爱在非典的日子)

Producer

Year	English Title	Chinese title	Notes
1995	Wild Side		Associate producer
1998	Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl	天浴 (Tiān Yù)	Producer, Executive producer Nominated — Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature Over $500,000 shared with Alice Chan Wai-Chung
2012	Shanghai Strangers	非典情人 (Fēidiǎn qíngrén)	short film — post-production (also known as 爱在非典的日子)

Other media

• 2008: "Shanghai," narrator—an audio walking tour by Louis Vuitton and Soundwalk[30]

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Film	Result
1980	Hundred Flowers Awards	Best Actress	Little Flower	Won
	Yugoslavia International Film Festival	Best Actress[31][32]		Won
1994	Asian American International Film Festival	Asian Media Award for significant contribution to Asian American media[33]		Won
	Golden Horse Awards	Best Actress	Red Rose, White Rose	Won
1995	Hong Kong Film Awards	Best Actress		Nominated
	Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards	Best Actress[34][35]		Won
1998	Golden Horse Awards	Best Director	Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl	Won
		Best Screenplay Adapted from Another Medium shared with Geling Yan		Won
	Berlin International Film Festival[36]	Golden Berlin Bear		Nominated
	Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival	Jury Award		Won
1999	Paris Film Festival	Grand Prize		Nominated
		Special Jury Prize		Won
	Mons International Love Film Festival	Grand Prize		Won
	National Board of Review	International Freedom Award[37]		Won
2000	Independent Spirit Awards	Best First Feature Over $500,000 shared with Alice Chan Wai-Chung		Nominated
2005	San Diego Asian Film Festival[38]	Lifetime Achievement Award		Won
2007	Golden Horse Awards	Best Actress	The Home Song Stories	Won
	Hawaii International Film Festival	Achievement in Acting		Won
	Asia Pacific Screen Awards	Best Performance by an Actress		Nominated
	Inside Film Awards	Best Actress		Won
	Torino Film Festival	Best Actress		Won
	Australian Film Institute Awards	Best Actress		Won
2008	Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards	Best Actress		Won
	Asian Film Awards	Best Actress		Nominated
		Best Supporting Actress	The Sun Also Rises	Won
	Shanghai International Film Festival	Press Prize for Most Attractive Actress	Shi Qi	Won
2020	Huading Awards	Best Supporting Actress	Sheep Without a Shepherd	Nominated[39]
	Macau International Movie Festival	Best Actress		Nominated

Other recognition

• In 1992 People magazine chose her as one of the 50 most beautiful women in the world.^{[citation needed]}
• Chen inspired indie rock band Xiu Xiu, named after her film Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl.^{[citation needed]}
• Chen was chosen by Goldsea as Number 45 on its compilation of "The 120 Most Inspiring Asian Americans of All Time".[40]

References

Articles and interviews

• "The Last Empress", by C. Mark Jacobson. Interview. December 1987. p. 146-147.
• "In Praise of Actors: Joan Chen", by Peter Rainer. American Film. Volume 15: Issue 8. May 1990. p. 32.
• "Heavenly And Hearthy", by Tom Kagy. Goldsea Asian American Daily. August 1992.
• "Chen Reaction", by Alison Dakota Gee. Movieline (USA). December 1993. p. 54-59, 88.
• "West To East", by Richard Corliss. TIME (USA). Volume 153: Issue 13. April 5, 1999.
• "Joan of Art", by Richard Corliss. TIME (USA). April 5, 1999.
• "The Sent Down Girl", by Steven Schwankert. Beijing Scene. Volume 5: Issue 8. May 7, 1999.
• "Joan Chen: Guerilla Director", by Michael Sragow. Salon.com. May 27, 1999.
• "Reel Poetry", by Kevin Berger. San Francisco (USA). July 2000. p. 51.
• "Joan Chen: Whether it's China or Hollywood, this actress/director tells it like it is", by Franz Lidz. Interview. August 2000. p. 80-81.
• "An Interview with Joan Chen", by Michelle Caswell. Asia Source. November 2000.
• "Is Joan Chen Done with Hollywood?" Goldsea Asian American Daily. January 28, 2003.
• "Empress and Enigma". China Daily. October 25, 2003.
• "Joan Chen's Wild Side", by Malinda Lo. Curve. Volume 15: Issue 4. June 2005.
• "The Face Behind Saving Face", by Kenny Tanemura. Asian Week. June 3, 2005.
• "Sensuously Elegant: An Interview with Joan Chen", by Lisa Odham Stokes. Asian Cult Cinema (USA). Issue 48. October–December 2005. p. 51-61.
• "Joan Chen on Filming Lust, Caution in Shanghai: Follow One's Heart."^{[permanent dead link]}, by Liu Qing. The Chinese Mirror. February 28, 2007.
• "The Many Faces of Joan Chen.", by Glen Schaefer. The Province. October 3, 2007.
• "Joan Chen returns to Chinese film.", by Min Lee. The China Post. October 17, 2007.

External links

• Joan Chen at IMDb
• (in Chinese) 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

Awards and achievements
Australian Film Institute Awards
Preceded by Emily Barclay for Suburban Mayhem	Best Actress 2007 for The Home Song Stories	Succeeded by Monic Hendrickx for Unfinished Sky
Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards
Preceded by None	Best Actress 1994 for Red Rose, White Rose	Succeeded by Siqin Gaowa for The Day the Sun Turned Cold Josephine Siao for Summer Snow
Golden Horse Awards
Preceded by Carrie Ng for Remains of a Woman	Best Actress 1994 for Red Rose, White Rose	Succeeded by Josephine Siao for Summer Snow
Preceded by Fruit Chan for Made in Hong Kong	Best Director 1998 for Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl	Succeeded by Ann Hui for Ordinary Heroes
Preceded by To Kwak Wai for Love Go Go	Best Adapted Screenplay 1998 for Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl	Succeeded by Vacant
Preceded by Zhou Xun for Perhaps Love	Best Actress 2007 for The Home Song Stories	Succeeded by Prudence Liew for True Women For Sale

На других языках

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[de] Joan Chen

Joan Chen (chinesisch .mw-parser-output .Hant{font-size:110%}陳沖 / .mw-parser-output .Hans{font-size:110%}陈冲, Pinyin Chén Chōng; * 26. April 1961 in Shanghai, Volksrepublik China) ist eine chinesisch-US-amerikanische Schauspielerin und Regisseurin.

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- [en] Joan Chen

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[es] Joan Chen

Joan Chong Chen (Chino tradicional: 陈冲; chino simplificado: 陳冲; pinyin: Chén Chōng) (Shanghái, 26 de abril de 1961) es una actriz, directora de cine, guionista y productora chinoestadounidense.

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[ru] Чэнь, Джоан

Джоа́н Чун Чэнь (англ. Joan Chong Chen,кит. трад. 陳冲, упр. 陈冲, пиньинь Chén Chōng; род. 26 апреля 1961 (1961-04-26)) — американская актриса и режиссер китайского происхождения. Самые известные проекты, снятые при участии Чэнь — телесериал «Твин Пикс» Дэвида Линча, «Последний император» Бернардо Бертолуччи и «Судья Дредд». Чэнь является режиссером мелодрамы «Осень в Нью-Йорке».

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