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Born in Beijing in the People's Republic of China,
Ms. Zhang joined the Beijing Dance Academy at the
age of 11, and at 15 she entered China's
prestigious  Central Academy of Drama. At the age
of 19, she was offered her first role in world
renown director Zhang Yimou's The Road Home, which
won the Silver Bear award in the 2000 Berlin Film
Festival.

Ms. Zhang further rose to fame due to her role in
the phenomenally successful Crouching Tiger,
Hidden Dragon for which she won the Independent
Spirit's Best Supporting Actress Award and the
Toronto Film Critics' Best Supporting Actress
Award. She went on to make "Hero" which was a huge
success in the English speaking world and an Oscar
and a Golden Globe contender. Her next movie was
the avant garde drama "Purple Butterfly" which
competed at the 2003 Cannes Film Festiva. She went
back to the martial arts genre with House of
Flying Daggers, which earned her a Best Actress
nomination from the British Academy of Film and
Television Arts.

For her next modern-day drama "2046", directed by
Wong Kar-Wei, starring many of Asia's best-known
actresses, Ms. Zhang won the Hong Kong Film
Critics' Best Actress Award and the Hong Kong Film
Academy's Best Actress Award. 

Showing her whimsical musical tapdancing side, Ms.
Zhang starred in "Princess Raccoon" directed by
82-year-old Japanese legend Seijun Suzuki who was
honored at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.

She plays the leading role of Sayuri in the
adaptation of the international bestsellerMemoirs
Of A Geisha, with Michelle Yeoh, Gong Li, and Ken
Watanabe, produced by Steven Spielberg and
directed by Rob Marshall. The movie will be
released in December 2005

==Filmography==

* Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
* Princess Raccoon (2005)
* Jasmine Women (2004)
* House of Flying Daggers (2004)
* 2046 (film)|2046 (2004)
* Purple Butterfly (2003)
* My Wife Is A Gangster 2 (2003)
* Hero (film)|Hero (2002)
* Musa (film)|Musa (2001)
* Rush Hour 2 (2001)
* Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
* The Road Home (1999)
* Touching Starlight (1996)

==Related topics==
*Cinema of China

==External links==
*http://www.helloziyi.com/ HelloZiyi - The
Official Zhang Ziyi Website (Chinese only)
*http://csc.ziyi.org/ Zhang Ziyi CSC -
International Zhang Ziyi fansite, news, extensive
filmography and picture gallery, active discussion
forum
*http://www.helloziyi.us/ HelloZiyi.us - Zhang
Ziyi - US Zhang Ziyi fansite, the most pictures
and videos, plus filmography,news and articles,
active forums.
*imdb name|id=0955471|name=Zhang Ziyi
*http://ziyiforever.primenova.com Zhang Ziyi
Forever - News, biography, filmography, picture
gallery, multimedia, very active forum, etc.

*http://www.zhang-ziyi.co.uk/ World of Zhang Ziyi
- Picture gallery, wallpapers, facts, biography,
and links.

*http://www.ziyi.org/ Ziyi Photo Gallery - Large
picture gallery, forums in Chinese and English.

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Born in Beijing in the People's Republic of China,
Ms. Zhang joined the Beijing Dance Academy at the
age of 11, and at 15 she entered China's
prestigious  Central Academy of Drama. At the age
of 19, she was offered her first role in world
renown director Zhang Yimou's The Road Home, which
won the Silver Bear award in the 2000 Berlin Film
Festival.

Ms. Zhang further rose to fame due to her role in
the phenomenally successful Crouching Tiger,
Hidden Dragon for which she won the Independent
Spirit's Best Supporting Actress Award and the
Toronto Film Critics' Best Supporting Actress
Award. She went on to make "Hero" which was a huge
success in the English speaking world and an Oscar
and a Golden Globe contender. Her next movie was
the avant garde drama "Purple Butterfly" which
competed at the 2003 Cannes Film Festiva. She went
back to the martial arts genre with House of
Flying Daggers, which earned her a Best Actress
nomination from the British Academy of Film and
Television Arts.

For her next modern-day drama "2046", directed by
Wong Kar-Wei, starring many of Asia's best-known
actresses, Ms. Zhang won the Hong Kong Film
Critics' Best Actress Award and the Hong Kong Film
Academy's Best Actress Award. 

Showing her whimsical musical tapdancing side, Ms.
Zhang starred in "Princess Raccoon" directed by
82-year-old Japanese legend Seijun Suzuki who was
honored at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.

She plays the leading role of Sayuri in the
adaptation of the international bestsellerMemoirs
Of A Geisha, with Michelle Yeoh, Gong Li, and Ken
Watanabe, produced by Steven Spielberg and
directed by Rob Marshall. The movie will be
released in December 2005

==Filmography==

* Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
* Princess Raccoon (2005)
* Jasmine Women (2004)
* House of Flying Daggers (2004)
* 2046 (film)|2046 (2004)
* Purple Butterfly (2003)
* My Wife Is A Gangster 2 (2003)
* Hero (film)|Hero (2002)
* Musa (film)|Musa (2001)
* Rush Hour 2 (2001)
* Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
* The Road Home (1999)
* Touching Starlight (1996)

==Related topics==
*Cinema of China

==External links==
*http://www.helloziyi.com/ HelloZiyi - The
Official Zhang Ziyi Website (Chinese only)
*http://csc.ziyi.org/ Zhang Ziyi CSC -
International Zhang Ziyi fansite, news, extensive
filmography and picture gallery, active discussion
forum
*http://www.helloziyi.us/ HelloZiyi.us - Zhang
Ziyi - US Zhang Ziyi fansite, the most pictures
and videos, plus filmography,news and articles,
active forums.
*imdb name|id=0955471|name=Zhang Ziyi
*http://ziyiforever.primenova.com Zhang Ziyi
Forever - News, biography, filmography, picture
gallery, multimedia, very active forum, etc.

*http://www.zhang-ziyi.co.uk/ World of Zhang Ziyi
- Picture gallery, wallpapers, facts, biography,
and links.

*http://www.ziyi.org/ Ziyi Photo Gallery - Large
picture gallery, forums in Chinese and English.