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Joan Chen
Highest Rated: 100% Sheep Without a Shepherd (2019)
Lowest Rated: Not Available
Birthday: Apr 26, 1961
Birthplace: Shanghai, China
Striking Chinese-born leading lady who became a star in her native country at age 14 when she was whisked from an athletic rifle team to star in a film sponsored by Mao Tse-tung's wife. Chen subsequently proved very popular in several other Chinese films, acquiring the sobriquet of "the Chinese Elizabeth Taylor." One of her best-remembered films during this time was "Little Flower" (1978), in which she played a deaf-mute girl, cured by acupuncture, whose first words are "Long live Chairman Mao!." The winner of many awards in China, Chen made her US debut with a small role in Wayne Wang's "Dim Sum: a Little Bit of Heart" (1985). Given her star status at home, she was an appropriate choice for the lead role, opposite Bryan Brown, in the English-language film "Tai-Pan" (1986), the first significant collaboration between an American filmmaker and the Chinese government.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 91% | No Score Yet | Dìdi | Chungsing Wang (Character) | - | 2024 |
| No Score Yet | 58% | Under the Light | Unknown (Character) | - | 2023 |
| No Score Yet | 92% | Hachiko | Unknown (Character) | - | 2023 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hero |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 2022 |
| 20% | 29% | Ava | Toni (Character) | $464.2K | 2020 |
| 100% | No Score Yet | Sheep Without a Shepherd | La Wen (Character) | - | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | The House That Never Dies II | Doctor (Character) | - | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wonderlandd | Susan (Character) | - | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | 31% | Lady of the Dynasty | Consort Wu (Character) | - | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | 69% | White Frog | Irene Young (Character) | - | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Double Xposure | Dr. Hao (Character) | - | 2012 |
| 8% | 30% | 1911 | Empress Dowager Longyu (Character) | $127.4K | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | 52% | Love in Disguise | Joan (Character) | - | 2010 |
| 56% | 76% | Mao's Last Dancer | Niang (Character) | $4.8M | 2009 |
| 89% | 72% | 24 City | Little Flower (Character) | - | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Leap Years | Li-Ann - age 48 (Character) | - | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | 76% | American Masters | Unknown (Character) | - | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shi qi | Unknown (Character) | - | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | 27% | All God's Children Can Dance | Evelyn (Character) | - | 2007 |
| 100% | 79% | The Home Song Stories | Unknown (Character) | - | 2007 |
| 73% | 84% | Lust, Caution | Mrs. Yi (Character) | $4.6M | 2007 |
| 100% | No Score Yet | Hollywood Chinese | Unknown (Character) | - | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Sun Also Rises | Unknown (Character) | - | 2007 |
| 67% | No Score Yet | Americanese | Betty (Character) | - | 2006 |
| 69% | 74% | Sunflower | Xiuqing (Character) | $23.3K | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | 35% | Avatar | Madame Ong (Character) | - | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jasmine Women |
Mo's Mother / |
- | 2004 |
| 88% | 88% | Saving Face | Ma (Character) | $1.2M | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | 77% | Mo li hua kai (Jasmine Women) | Unknown (Character) | - | 2004 |
| 20% | 53% | Autumn in New York | Director | $37.8M | 2001 |
| 52% | 65% | What's Cooking? | Trinh Nguyen (Character) | $1.0M | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | In a Class of His Own | Linda Ching (Character) | - | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | 55% | Purple Storm | Shirley Kwan (Character) | - | 1999 |
| 96% | 84% | Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl |
Director, Writer, Executive Producer, Producer |
$1.0M | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | 8% | Precious Find | Camilla Jones (Character) | - | 1996 |
| 60% | 46% | Wild Side | Virginia Chow (Character) | - | 1995 |
| 8% | 54% | The Hunted | Kirina (Character) | $6.4M | 1995 |
| 22% | 30% | Judge Dredd | Dr. Ilsa Hayden (Character) | $34.7M | 1995 |
| 0% | 7% | Golden Gate | Marilyn Song (Character) | $395.1K | 1994 |
| 14% | 35% | On Deadly Ground | Masu (Character) | $36.0M | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Red Rose White Rose |
Wang Chiao-jui / |
- | 1994 |
| 43% | 71% | Heaven and Earth | Mama (Character) | - | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | Temptation of a Monk |
Princess Hong-e - Scarlet/ |
- | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Turtle Beach | Minou (Character) | $708.4K | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Steel Justice | Nicole Loa (Character) | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shadow of a Stranger | Vanessa (Character) | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | 36% | Wedlock | Noelle (Character) | - | 1991 |
| 22% | 76% | The Blood of Heroes | Kidda (Character) | $882.3K | 1989 |
| 86% | 88% | The Last Emperor | Empress (Elizabeth) Wan Jung (Character) | $43.0M | 1987 |
| 14% | 39% | Tai-Pan | May-May (Character) | $3.8M | 1986 |
| 90% | 50% | Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart | Young m.j. player (Character) | - | 1985 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88% | 88% | A Murder at the End of the World | Lu Mei (Character) | 2023 |
| 94% | 83% | Twin Peaks: The Return | Josie Packard (archive footage) (Guest Star) | 2017 |
| 66% | 93% | Marco Polo | Empress Chabi (Character) | 2014 2016 |
| 90% | 79% | Fringe | Reiko (Guest Star) | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Outer Limits | Major Dara Talif (Character) | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child | Unknown (Voice) | 1997 |
| 91% | 90% | Homicide: Life on the Street | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1997 |
| 82% | 96% | Tales From the Crypt | Unknown (Character) | 1993 |
| 78% | 92% | Twin Peaks | Jocelyn Packard (Character) | 1990-1991 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wiseguy | Maxine Tzu (Guest Star) | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | 73% | MacGyver | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1985 |
| 71% | 85% | Miami Vice | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1985 |