Zhang Ziyi
Birthday: 1979-02-09
Place of Birth: Beijing, China
Biography: Zhang Ziyi (Chinese: 章子怡; born 9 February 1979) is a Chinese actress. Her first major role was in The Road Home (1999). She later achieved fame for her role in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), which was nominated for 10 Academy Awards. In the West, Zhang is best known for her appearances in Rush Hour 2 (2001), Hero (2002), 2046 (2004) and House of Flying Daggers (2004). Her most critically acclaimed works are Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), which earned her nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role; and The Grandmaster (2013), for which she won 12 different Best Actress awards to become the most awarded actress for a single film.
Movies
Hero
During China's Warring States period, a district prefect arrives at the palace of Qin Shi Huang, cla...
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physical...
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TMNT
After the defeat of their old arch nemesis, The Shredder, the Turtles have grown apart as a family. ...
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The Warrior
In 1375, China was in chaos between Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty. Coryo (an ancient kingdom of Kore...
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2046
Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author...
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The Volunteers: To the War
In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, New China was faced wit...
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Rush Hour 2
It's vacation time for Carter as he finds himself alongside Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more excite...
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My Wife Is A Gangster 2
Former Scissor Gang leader Eun-jin, who now suffers from amnesia, nevertheless defends Jae-cheol, a ...
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Sophie's Revenge
Dumped by her fiance just two months before their wedding, comic strip writer Sophie hatches an elab...
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The Road Home
Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they...
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House of Flying Daggers
In 9th century China, a corrupt government wages war against a rebel army called the Flying Daggers....
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Purple Butterfly
Ding Hui is a member of Purple Butterfly, a powerful resistance group in Japanese occupied Shanghai....
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The Banquet
Crown Prince Wu Luan is in love with Little Wan but left heartbroken when she marries his father, th...
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Princess Raccoon
Amechiyo (the banished prince) falls in love with Tanukihime (a princess of raccoon dog disguised as...
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Forever Enthralled
The epic story Mei Lanfang, who overcame the prejudice against artists in 1930s China to become the ...
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The Grandmaster
Ip Man's peaceful life in Foshan changes after Gong Yutian seeks an heir for his family in Southern ...
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Jasmine Women
Zhang Ziyi plays the youngest of three generations of women who leads lives in Shanghai. Joan Chen p...
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Zu Warriors
King Sky, the sole disciple of the Kun Lun Sect, falls in love with his master Dawn. Dawn is killed ...
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Horsemen
A recently widowed detective still grieving over his wife's death discovers a shocking connection be...
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Love for Life
Set in a small Chinese village where HIV virus is spreading rapidly as a result of illicit blood tra...
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She's Got No Name
A bizarre case caused thousands of waves. There are different opinions on the truth. When the whole ...
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Dangerous Liaisons
Dangerous Liaisons is a Chinese film by Hur Jin-ho based on the novel with the same title by Pierre ...
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My Lucky Star
A bumbling amateur cartoonist tags along on a secret agent's mission to retrieve a priceless diamond...
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The Founding of a Republic
The tale of one man who fought against the tyranny of a ruler and led his people in battle in the ul...
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Together
Zhao Liang’s film portrays AIDS sufferers of both genders; they are all people with very different b...
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Touching Starlight
Touching Starlight is a true story about a young girl, Chen Wei, an aspiring dancer whose hopes and ...
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The Road to "The Grandmaster"
This is not a documentary describing the filming process of "The Grandmaster", but a record of Wong ...
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The Crossing I
At the end of the World War II and the middle of the Chinese Revolution, three couples from differen...
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Forever Young
From World War, to revolution and ultimately rebirth, Forever Young is the story of four generations...
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Better and Better
Sun Xiangcheng, a self-styled professional fan organiser, is called from his home village of West We...
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The Crossing II
A story of three couples and their intertwining love stories set in 1940s Taiwan and Shanghai, cente...
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Run for Love
A romantic anthology with five episodes featuring five love stories in Japan, United States, Norway,...
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Where's the Dragon?
The story follows a ten-year-old girl who teams up with animals from the Chinese Zodiac to search fo...
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Oh My God!
Oh My God is a sci-fi romantic comedy revolving around a couple who is desperate to conceive a child...
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The Wasted Times
Shanghai gangsters grapple with lust and loyalty on the eve of war with Japan as they try to navigat...
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The Cloverfield Paradox
Orbiting above a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis and ...
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a...
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Dragon Girls!
Yves Montmayeur takes Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as the starting point for his study of the new ...
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Existence
This is the inspiring story of how an ordinary Chinese boy became China's biggest Rock star...
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The Climbers
Upon learning that the international community does not recognize China's ascent of Mount Everest du...
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Memoirs of a Geisha
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...
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My Country, My Parents
This anthology drama presents four short films honoring Chinese families, spotlighting the struggles...
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Impossible Mission: Golden Rooster
China's top stars come together in a short film spoofing popular movies of the past year during the ...
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War 1840
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Lin Zexu, an imperial envoy, braved the hardships of destructed opiu...
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She's Got No Name: Part Two
A sprawling true-crime case illuminating the fates of ordinary people amid the tides of changing tim...
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Undercurrent
A woman answers a mystery phone call, entering a tense, surreal journey to an alternate reality....
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The Making of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'
Documentary on the making of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'....
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Making of 2046
This 2004 documentary details the making of 2046 and features interviews with director Wong Kar Wai,...
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