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Zhang Ziyi (born
February 9, 1979 in Beijing, China) is one of the most
well-known Chinese film actresses working today, with a
string of Chinese and international hits to her name.
She has worked with renowned directors such as Zhang
Yimou, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-Wai, Seijun Suzuki and Rob
Marshall.
Biography: Born in Beijing, China, Zhang joined
the Beijing Dance Academy at the age of 11, and at 15
she entered China's prestigious Central Academy of Drama
(regarded as the top acting college in China).
Career: At the age of 19, she was offered her
first role in world renowned director Zhang Yimou's The
Road Home, which won the Silver Bear award in the 2000
Berlin Film Festival. Zhang further rose to fame due to
her role in the phenomenally successful Crouching Tiger,
Hidden Dragon, for which she won the Independent
Spirit's Best Supporting Actress Award and the Toronto
Film Critics' Best Supporting Actress Award.
Her first appearance in an American movie was in Rush
Hour 2, but as she didn't speak English at the time,
Jackie Chan had to translate everything the director
said to her. In that movie, her character's name,
"Hu Li" translated from Mandarin Chinese is
"Fox".
After this she went on to make Hero which was a huge
success in the English-speaking world and an Oscar and a
Golden Globe contender. Her next film was the
avant-garde drama Purple Butterfly which competed at the
2003 Cannes Film Festival. She went back to the martial
arts genre with House of Flying Daggers, which earned
her a Best Actress nomination from the British Academy
of Film and Television Arts.
For her next drama 2046, directed by Wong Kar-wai,
starring many of the best-known Chinese actresses (from
Hong Kong, Taiwan and the mainland), Zhang won the Hong
Kong Film Critics' Best Actress Award and the Hong Kong
Film Academy's Best Actress Award.
Showing her whimsical musical tap-dancing side, Zhang
starred in Princess Raccoon directed by 82-year-old
Japanese legend Seijun Suzuki who was honored at the
2005 Cannes Film Festival. She plays the leading role of
Sayuri in the adaptation of the international bestseller
Memoirs of a Geisha, with her Crouching Tiger, Hidden
Dragon co-star Michelle Yeoh, as well as Gong Li and Ken
Watanabe. The movie was produced by Steven Spielberg,
directed by Rob Marshall, and released in December 2005.
Zhang has received a Best Actress - Drama Golden Globe
nomination for her role.
Zhang has also been known to sing, and was featured on
the House Of Flying Daggers Soundtrack with her own
musical rendition of the ancient Chinese poem Jia Rén
Qu (The Beauty Song). The song was also featured in a
scene in the film.
On 27 June, 2005 it was announced that Zhang had
accepted an invitation to join the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), placing her among the
ranks of those able to vote on the Academy Awards.
In May 2006, Zhang became the youngest member to sit on
the jury of the Cannes Film Festival.
In the fall of 2006, Zhang' most recent film was
released, a new drama set in the Tang Dynasty of China
called The Banquet (Yè Yàn).
Zhang Ziyi can be seen endorsing Maybelline, GARNIER,
and Asience (Japanese shampoo brand). She is also a
Global Ambassador for the Special Olympics.
Most recently she provided the voice of Karai in the
TMNT movie that was released on March 23, 2007.
Personal Life: Soon after her debut in Zhang
Yimou's The Road Home, rumours arose regarding a
possible affair between the actress and the older
director. Zhang Yimou was previously involved in an
extra-marital affair with actress Gong Li, whom he
similarly debuted and with whom Zhang Ziyi was quickly
compared. However, a relationship between the two
remains unconfirmed.
Hong Kong and Taiwanese media have often pushed at ties
between Zhang Ziyi and co-star Jackie Chan. This was
fuelled in part by photos that emerged of the pair
during celebrations of Chan's birthday on the set of
Rush Hour 2.
Zhang Ziyi for a while was publicly linked with Fok
Kai-shan, grandson of Hong Kong business tycoon Henry
Fok.
Although Zhang Ziyi does not like to talk in public
about her private life, in 2006 she stated in an
interview that she had found love but did not offer a
name.
In January 2007, Zhang Ziyi was spotted holding hands
and kissing with her new partner at a New York
basketball game. The man was identified as 41 year old,
Israeli multi-millionaire, venture capitalist Vivi Nevo.
The two were again seen together at an Oscar party in
Los Angeles. Nevo, who has previously been tied to model
Kate Moss, is a major shareholder in Time Warner and an
early backer of The Weinstein Company with whom Zhang
Ziyi is purported to have a multi-film deal. She has
recently finished filming a movie called
"Horsemen" with Dennis Quaid.
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