Zhang Ziyi is a Chinese film and television actress and producer who graduated from the acting department of the Central Academy of Drama. She has won three Chinese Film Huabiao Awards for Best Actress, two Popular Film Hundred Flowers Awards for Best Actress, and two Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actress. Her representative works include "The Grandmaster", "Memoirs of a Geisha", "Ambush on Ten Sides", "Mei Lanfang", "The Night Banquet", and "Shang Yang Fu".
Zhang Ziyi was born on February 9, 1979 in Beijing, and graduated from the Central Academy of Drama in 2000.In 1998, she was discovered by Zhang Yimou, and became famous by starring in the movie "My Father and Mother", which won the Silver Bear at the 50th Berlin International Film Festival.
In 1999, she starred in Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", which won China's first Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and many other international prizes, thus becoming a part of the international movie industry. 2005, she starred in the Hollywood movie "Memoirs of a Geisha", which was produced by Spielberg.
In 2010, she was awarded the "Most Outstanding Asian Actress of the Past Ten Years" by the Asian Film Expo, and in 2013-2014, she won 12 posthumous awards, including the 50th Taiwan Golden Horse Awards, the 33rd Hong Kong Film Awards, the Asia Pacific Movie Awards, and the Asia Pacific Movie Festival for her performance in "The Grandmaster", Asian Film Awards, and 12 other post-film awards.
On December 16, 2016, she starred in the film "The History of the Demise of Romantics", which was released in theaters.
On January 12, 2018, the youth film "No Questions Asked", which starred Huang Xiaoming, Zhang Zhen and Chen Chusheng, was released in theaters.
On September 8, she was awarded the Best Actress in the 14th Changchun Film Festival of China for her performance in the film "The History of the Demise of Romantics".
Character Evaluation
Chang Ziyi's performance in "The Grandmaster" was outstanding, both in literature and martial arts; her role as Mr. Gong Er was just like the impression she gave people outside the theater, with a delicate appearance and handsome face, but her eyes showed her stubbornness and perseverance, which seemed to have a mountain-breaking and stone-piercing power in her bones.
And in the movie, Zhang Ziyi's qualities and potential are also shown to the fullest. Zhang Ziyi has reached a point in her acting career where she is not simply expressing her character through her lines and body movements, but has evolved from form to spirit, becoming one with her character and letting her character live in her.
Chang Ziyi, in the movie "My Father's Mother," interpreted the role of Zhaodi in a subtle and colorful way. In the movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", as Jade Jiao Long, Zhang Ziyi, beautifully dressed, martial arts, hands and feet lively charm. She well grasped the Jade Jiao Long also good and evil, the pursuit of freedom, emotional delicate personality, portraying the complex emotional world of the character.