Jiang Wen
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Jiang Wen at the Deauville Asian Film Festival in France in 2008
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| Chinese name | 姜文 | ||||||||
| Pinyin | Jiāng Wén (Mandarin) | ||||||||
| Born | 5 January 1963 Tangshan, Hebei, China |
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| Occupation | Actor, screenwriter, film director | ||||||||
| Years active | 1986–present | ||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Sandrine Chenivisse (1997–2005) Zhou Yun (2005–present) |
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Jiang Wen (born 5 January 1963) is a Chinese film actor, screenwriter and director. As a director, he is sometimes grouped with the "Sixth Generation" that emerged in the 1990s.[1] Jiang is also well known internationally as an actor, having starred with Gong Li in Zhang Yimou's debut film Red Sorghum (1986). He has a younger brother who is also an actor, Jiang Wu.
Life and career
Born in Tangshan, Hebei, in a family of military personnel, Jiang relocated to Beijing at the age of ten. In 1980, he entered China's foremost acting school, the Central Academy of Drama, graduating in 1984. That same year, he started acting both on the stage (with the China Youth Theater) and in films.
After appearing in many television series and films, Jiang became known in China for his role in the 1992 television series A Native of Beijing in New York, which made him one of the most popular actors of his generation. In addition to these he also starred in Hibiscus Town (1984), Black Snow (1990), The Emperor's Shadow (1996) and The Soong Sisters (1997). Apart from Red Sorghum, Jiang also collaborated with Zhang Yimou for the 1997 film Keep Cool.
Jiang wrote and directed his first film in 1994, In the Heat of the Sun, adapted from a novel by Wang Shuo. A tale set in the Cultural Revolution, it won for its young lead actor Xia Yu the Best Actor prize at the Venice Film Festival and garnered six Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan. Jiang's second feature film, Devils on the Doorstep, set during the Japanese occupation of China in the early 1940s, won him the Grand Prix in the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.[2] In 2001 he was a member of the jury at the 23rd Moscow International Film Festival.[3]
Jiang has also acted in television series, such as Da Qing Fengyun (2006), in which he played Hong Taiji.
Jiang was married to French actress Sandrine Chenivisse,[4] with whom he has a daughter. He is now married to Chinese actress Zhou Yun and they have two sons.[5]
In 2013 he was named as a member of the jury at the 70th Venice International Film Festival.[6]
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1986 | The Last Empress 末代皇后 |
Puyi | |
| 1986 | Hibiscus Town 芙蓉镇 |
Qiu Shutian | |
| 1986 | Tears of the Bridal Sedan 花轿泪 |
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| 1987 | Red Sorghum 红高梁 |
My grandpapa | Nominated for Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor (1988) |
| 1990 | Black Snow 本命年 |
Li Huiquan | |
| 1991 | Li Lianying: The Imperial Eunuch 大太监李莲英 |
Li Lianying | |
| 1993 | The Trail 大路 |
Chinese policeman | |
| 1994 | In the Heat of the Sun 阳光灿烂的日子 |
Ma Xiaojun (adult) | Director; writer; won Golden Horse Award for Best Director (1996); won Golden Horse Award for Best Original Screenplay (1996) |
| 1996 | The Emperor's Shadow 秦颂 |
Ying Zheng | |
| 1997 | Keep Cool 有话好好说 |
Bookseller | |
| 1997 | The Soong Sisters 宋家皇朝 |
Charlie Soong | Won Hong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting Actor (1998) |
| 2000 | Devils on the Doorstep 鬼子来了 |
Ma Dasan | Director; writer; won Kinema Junpo Award for Best Foreign Language Film Director (2003) |
| 2002 | The Missing Gun 寻枪 |
Ma Shan | |
| 2003 | Green Tea 绿茶 |
Chen Mingliang | |
| 2003 | My Father and I 我和爸爸 |
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| 2003 | Warriors of Heaven and Earth 天地英雄 |
Lieutenant Li | |
| 2004 | Jasmine Women 茉莉花开 |
Mr. Meng | |
| 2004 | Letter from an Unknown Woman 一个陌生女人的来信 |
Writer / Mr. Xu | |
| 2007 | The Sun Also Rises 太阳照常升起 |
Tang Yunlin | Director; writer |
| 2008 | New York, I Love You 纽约，我爱你 |
Director | |
| 2009 | The Nobles 贵族 |
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| 2009 | The Founding of a Republic 建国大业 |
Mao Renfeng | |
| 2010 | Let the Bullets Fly 让子弹飞 |
Zhang Mazi (Zhang Muzhi) | Director; writer |
| 2011 | The Lost Bladesman 关云长 |
Cao Cao | |
| 2014 | Gone with the Bullets 一步之遥 |
Ma Zouri | Director |
| 2016 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1993 | A Native of Beijing in New York 北京人在纽约 |
Wang Qiming | |
| 1996 | Yichang Fenghua Xueyue De Gushi 一场风花雪月的事 |
Producer | |
| 2006 | Da Qing Fengyun 大清风云 |
Hong Taiji |
References
- ↑ Xu, Gary G. (2007). Sinascape: Contemporary Chinese Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield, p. 47. ISBN 0-7425-5450-3. Google Book Search. Retrieved 2008-09-10
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- Silbergeld, Jerome (2008), Body in Question: Image and Illusion in Two Chinese Films by Director Jiang Wen (Princeton: Princeton University Press)
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- Chinese male film actors
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