Fan Bingbing

On 24 October, Buddha Mountain starring Fan premiered at the 23rd Tokyo International Film Festival, and earned her the Best Actress Award.

In October, she became a member of the International Competition Jury of 24th Tokyo International Film Festival.

Fan won a Best Actress Award at the 27th Hundred Flowers Awards, and an Outstanding New Actress nomination at the 10th Huabiao Awards.

In May, she appeared at the 64th Cannes Film Festival to promote My Way together with director Kang Je-gyu and actors Jang Dong-gun and Joe Odagiri.

Fan Bingbing (, born 16 September 1981 in Yantai) is a Chinese actress.

Fan's early work was in East Asian cinema and television, notably appearing in drama series My Fair Princess (1998–1999).

Fan debuted in the television series Powerful Woman and played minor roles for two years, before gaining attention in 1999 for her supporting role as Jin Suo in the first two seasons of the Chinese television series My Fair Princess, adapted from Taiwanese writer Chiung Yao's story.

She was recommended by Hong Kong actress Leanne Liu to join the cast.

The comedic period drama enjoyed widespread success in Asia, making Fan a household name in the region.

Fan appeared in The Lion Roars (2002), The Twins Effect II (2004), A Chinese Tall Story (2005), and A Battle of Wits (2006).

She received a Golden Bauhinia Awards nomination for her role in the Chinese-South-Korean-Japanese epic film A Battle of Wits.

Her breakthrough came with the film Cell Phone (2003) which was China's highest-grossing film of the year.

In 2003, she starred in Cell Phone, which became China's highest-grossing film of the year and received critical acclaim at the Hundred Flowers Awards.

Fan signed an eight-year contract with Chiung Yao's company, which produced My Fair Princess.

However, as the company had yet to establish any branches in mainland China, many mainland Chinese television advertising firms had to make calls to Taiwan for negotiations, resulting in a waste of time and effort.

When Fan and her mother tried to contract, Chiung Yao's company asked for CN¥1 million in compensation; eventually the court ordered Fan to pay CN¥200,000 because the contract was illegal due to her age.

In 2006, Forbes China gave her its most prized award, the Star of the Year, for her popularity, high press coverage, and website throughout that year.

She went on to star in several Chinese films, which include Lost in Beijing (2007), Buddha Mountain (2011) and Double Xposure (2012).

She has starred in many Chinese films, most notably Lost in Beijing (2007), Buddha Mountain (2011), Double Xposure (2012) and I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016), where she received awards from the Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards, the Tokyo International Film Festival, the San Sebastián International Film Festival and Golden Rooster Awards.

Fan left Huayi Brothers in February 2007 and started her own studio, Fan Bingbing Studio.

She starred in eight films in 2007, winning the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 44th Golden Horse Film Awards for her role in The Matrimony.

That year, her studio made its first television production, Rouge Snow (2008), adapted from the novel of the same name.

Fan played the starring role in the production, portraying a poor girl who fights for freedom against fate after being sold to a wealthy and influential clan.

In the same year, Fan starred in crime drama film Shinjuku Incident and was praised by critics for her performance.

Fan featured in historical action film Bodyguards and Assassins, which earned her a Best Supporting Actress nomination at the Hong Kong Film Awards.

In 2010, Fan starred in Chen Kaige's historical epic, Sacrifice.

Fan said that she chose the role as she was moved by Princess Zhuang Ji's great courage and a very fierce maternal love.

In April 2010, Fan was ranked first on the "50 Most Beautiful People in China" list by the newspaper Beijing News.

Her foreign film roles include the French film Stretch (2011), the Korean film My Way (2011), the American superhero film X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) and the Hong Kong-Chinese-American film Skiptrace (2015).

She has participated in many foreign-language films, such as the French film Stretch (2011), the Korean film My Way (2011), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), in which she portrayed Blink, and the Hong Kong-Chinese-American film Skiptrace (2015), for which she won the Golden Screen Award for Best Actress.

In 2011, Fan starred in the martial arts film Shaolin alongside Andy Lau and Jackie Chan and The Founding of a Party, which was released to mark the 90th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party.

From 2013 to 2017, she was included as the highest-paid celebrity in the Forbes China Celebrity 100 list after ranking in the top 10 every year since 2006.

For headlining the film I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016), Fan won awards from the Golden Horse Film Festival, the Tokyo International Film Festival, the San Sebastián International Film Festival and the Golden Rooster Awards.

She appeared on Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in 2017.

In 2018, Fan disappeared for three months, reportedly during an investigation into her tax affairs by the Chinese authorities.

She was reportedly fined a sum greater than her net worth.

She subsequently appeared on social media, offering a public apology over tax evasion, for which she was fined more than CN¥883 million (US$127 million).

Fan was born and raised in the east chinese coastal city Yantai.

Her father, Fan Tao, is a singer while her mother, Zhang Chuanmei is an actress.

She graduated from the Star Academy of the Shanghai Xie Jin-Hengtong School of Arts.