Fan Bingbing (born September 16, 1981) is a Chinese actress. She was the highest-paid star on the Forbes China star 100 list from 2013 to 2017, after appearing in the top ten every year since 2006. In 2017, she was named to Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people.
Fan began her career in East Asian movies and television, most notably in the drama series My Fair Princess. (1998–1999). Cell Phone (2003), her breakout picture, was China's highest-grossing film of the year. She went on to star in a number of Chinese films, including Lost in Beijing (2007), Buddha Mountain (2011), and Double Xposure (2012). (2012). Fan won honors for her performance as the lead in the film I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016) at the Golden Horse Film Festival, the Tokyo International Film Festival, the San Sebastián International Film Festival, and the Golden Rooster honors. Her foreign film roles include Stretch (2011), My Way (2011), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), and the Hong Kong-Chinese-American thriller Skiptrace. (2015).
Fan went missing for three months in 2018, allegedly amid a Chinese government inquiry into her tax troubles. She was allegedly penalized more than her net worth. She later apologized publicly on social media for tax evasion, for which she was penalized more than 883 million RMB (US$127 million).
Fan was born in Laixi, Yantai (now Qingdao), and reared there. She attended the Shanghai Xie Jin Film and Television Art College as well as the Shanghai Theatre Academy.
1996-2006 Career: Early Roles and Cell Phone
Fan made her television debut in the series Powerful Woman and played minor roles for two years before receiving notoriety in 1999 for her supporting role as Jin Suo in the first two seasons of the Chinese television series My Fair Princess, which was adapted from the story of Taiwanese writer Chiung Yao. Hong Kong actress Leanne Liu recommended her for the role. The comic period drama was a huge success in Asia, making Fan a household figure there.
Cell Phone, which became China's highest-grossing picture of the year and won critical acclaim at the Hundred Flowers Awards in 2003, starred her. Chiung Yao's business, which produced My Fair Princess, signed Fan to an eight-year contract. However, because the company has yet to open any branches in mainland China, numerous mainland Chinese television advertising agencies had to call Taiwan for talks, wasting time and effort. When Fan and her mother attempted to enter into a contract, Chiung Yao's company demanded 1 million RMB in compensation; eventually, the court ordered Fan to pay 200,000 RMB because the contract was illegal owing to Fan's age. Fan received Best Actress at the 27th Hundred Flowers Awards and was nominated for Outstanding New Actress at the 10th Huabiao Awards.
Fan participated in several films, including The Lion Roars (2002), The Twins Effect II (2004), A Chinese Tall Story (2005), and A Battle of Wits (2006). (2006). She was nominated for a Golden Bauhinia Award for her performance in the Chinese-South Korean-Japanese epic film A Battle of Wits. Forbes China awarded her the Star of the Year title in 2006 for her popularity, extensive press attention, and website throughout the year.
2007-2012: Ascension to prominence
She has appeared in numerous Chinese films, including Lost in Beijing (2007), Buddha Mountain (2011), Double Xposure (2012), and I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016), for which she received Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards, Tokyo International Film Festival, San Sebastián International Film Festival, and Golden Rooster Awards. She has appeared in numerous foreign-language films, including Stretch (2011), My Way (2011), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), in which she played Blink, and Skiptrace (2015), for which she won the Golden Screen Award for Best Actress.Fan left Huayi Brothers in February 2007 to establish Fan Bingbing Studio. In 2007, she appeared in eight films and won the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 44th Golden Horse Film Awards for her performance in The Matrimony. Rouge Snow (2008), adapted from the novel of the same name, was her studio's debut television production that year. Fan starred in the production as a poor girl who battles for her freedom against fate after being sold to a wealthy and powerful clan. In the same year, Fan featured in the criminal thriller film Shinjuku Incident, for which she received critical acclaim. Fan appeared in the historical action picture Bodyguards and Assassins, for which she received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the Hong Kong picture Awards.
Fan appeared in Chen Kaige's historical epic Sacrifice in 2010. Fan stated that she chose the role because she was captivated by Princess Zhuang Ji's bravery and intense mother love. Buddha Mountain, starring Fan, premiered at the 23rd Tokyo International Film Festival on October 24th, earning her the Best Actress Award. The tabloid Beijing News placed Fan first on its list of the "50 Most Beautiful People in China" in April 2010. Fan appeared in the martial arts film Shaolin starring Andy Lau and Jackie Chan in 2011, as well as The Founding of a Party, which was released to commemorate the Communist Party of China's 90th anniversary. She attended the 64th Cannes Film Festival in May to promote My Way alongside director Kang Je-gyu and actors Jang Dong-gun and Joe Odagiri. She was appointed to the 24th Tokyo International Film Festival's International Competition Jury in October.
Fan visited numerous fashion events in Paris during the first half of 2012. She was the only East Asian global spokeswoman for L'Oréal Paris at the opening ceremony of the 65th Cannes Film Festival on May 16. Based on her success in 2012, Forbes rated Fan third on the Forbes China Celebrity 100 List. She plays a teenager who suffers from visual hallucinations after witnessing her father murder her mother in the film Double Xposure, which was released in China on September 29. Most film critics appreciated Fan's performance, and she was named Best Actress at the Huading Awards. The film was a commercial success, grossing more than 100 million RMB in China, breaking the box office record for a domestic art film. Fan made an uncredited cameo in Lost in Thailand on December 12th to "help" her first-time director pal, Xu Zheng. The film smashed the Chinese box office record, becoming one of the highest-grossing Chinese films of all time.
2013–present: International endeavors and a well-known actress
Fan portrayed Dr. Wu's assistant, Wu Jiaqi, in the mainland Chinese version of Iron Man 3, which was released on May 1, 2013. The same year, she co-starred in the romantic comedy One Night Surprise with Aarif Rahman, which aired on Chinese Valentine's Day. The low-budget film was a commercial success with positive reviews. On December 9, 2013, the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group's B2C subsidiary Taobao stated that Fan ranked first on its list of the most valuable celebrities for increasing online business, influencing nearly US$74 million in sales on its ecommerce website. Fan got the Best Actress Award and the Hottest Figure Award at the Baidu Hot Ceremony on December 22. Fan appeared in the 2014 American superhero film X-Men: Days of Future Past as the mutant Blink (Clarice Ferguson). She also announced a four-picture deal with 20th Century Fox, however she has yet to feature in another X-Men film afterwards. Fan's international renown and recognition grew as a result of the film's global release. Barbie announced the release of the Fan Bingbing Celebrity Specialty doll in Shanghai on May 31. Louis Vuitton also chose Fan as the first Asian actress to have a custom made red carpet gown.
Fan plays Wu Zetian, the only female ruler in Chinese history, in the television series The Empress of China. From 21 December 2014 to 5 February 2015, the 82-episode TV series aired on Hunan Television and received the best ratings of the year. She appeared in the wuxia fantasy film The White Haired Witch of Lunar Kingdom the same year. In 2015, Fan appeared on CCTV as a judge on Amazing Chinese and as a contestant on the reality show Challenger's Alliance. Fan was named Best Actress at the 1st Berlin Chinese Film Festival for her performance in the film. In 2015, she was placed fourth on Forbes World's Highest-Paid Actresses list.
Fan earned the Best Supporting Actress award at the 1st Golden Screen Awards in 2016 for her performance in the action comedy Skiptrace starring Jackie Chan and American actor Johnny Knoxville. Fan then starred in Guo Jingming's L.O.R.D: Legend of Ravaging Dynasties. The film, which premiered on September 30, is China's first computer-animated movie picture. Fan won the Silver Shell Award for Best Actress at the 64th San Sebastián International Film Festival and the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress for her work in Feng Xiaogang's I Am Not Madame Bovary.
Fan was acknowledged on Time magazine's list of the one hundred most influential people in 2017 at the 2017 Time 100 Gala in Manhattan. Fan was named to the jury for the 70th Cannes Film Festival in April 2017. She starred in Sky Hunter, China's first aerial warfare film, the same year. Fan has been named a global ambassador for a number of businesses, including ReFa Beauty Care Tools, De Beers, King Power, and Montblanc. Fan was cast in Cao Baoping's murder drama film The Perfect Blue in 2018. In the same year, she was cast in 355, a spy thriller starring Jessica Chastain, Penélope Cruz, Lupita Nyong'o, Diane Kruger, Sebastian Stan, and Édgar Ramrez, which was released in January 2022. On April 22, 2019, Fan attended the IQIYI Ninth Anniversary Gala in Beijing.
Only four days later, she released her first moisturizing mask under her own brand, Fan Beauty Secret. Fan attended the Shanghai Beauty Summit on July 12 and the 12th China Cosmetic Summit on July 22.
Fan was affected by the tax incident; her business endorsement remains, but her film and television works could not be distributed on the mainland. China, the role of Fan in L.O.R.D. 2, and The Legend of Ba Qing, which had been completed, were not scheduled for distribution.
In the years thereafter, Fan has mostly focused on the management of her own company, Fan Beauty Secret, and has performed in numerous fashion events. Fan covered Grazia (Korean edition), L'Officiel (Russian version), and Marie Claire in 2019. (Malaysian edition).
Fan covered numerous Chinese publications in 2020, including Chic, Cosmobride, Bella (Chinese edition), No. 9 Modern, Wonderland (Chinese edition), and others. Foreign magazine covers include T (Singapore edition), Flaunt (US version), Wonderland (UK edition), ST (Japanese edition), and Schon (UK edition), among others. During the Double Eleven Shopping Festival, her personal cosmetics company, Fan Beauty Secret, grossed more than 100 million CNY. Fan covered the Singapore version of L'Officiel, The Laterals, Munero (Netherlands edition), and Grazia in 2021. (international edition and Middle East edition). Fan also appeared in a 15-minute short film.
Fan was asked to attend a number of fashion events in China. Due to the flood in Henan Province, she contributed one million yuan to people in disaster-stricken areas and two million yuan in books to 14 schools in Xinjiang. She appeared in two films released in North America in 2022: The 355 and The King's Daughter. She also appeared in the Korean television series Insider. Green Night, in which she appeared, premiered in the Panorama section of the Berlinale in 2023.
Private life
Looking back at how many children have been helped, it feels like writing a diary - one page a day may not seem like much, but after a while, you hold it and, wow, it is already really thick. This, I believe, is the sense of accomplishment. —Fan discusses Heart Ali in an interview with the Financial Times on September 20, 2013.
On May 29, 2015, Li Chen's social media stated that he and Fan Bingbing were dating. The couple got engaged on September 16, 2017, after he proposed to Fan during her birthday celebration. On June 27, 2019, the couple announced their divorce.
Fan has a younger brother, Fan Chengcheng, who is a member of the boy band Nine Percent and NEXT. She is a member of the Chinese Communist Party. Fan has been involved in assisting children with congenital heart disease undergo screening. Fan has assisted around 340 children with congenital heart disease undergo medical care in Beijing and Shanghai since August 2010.
Instance of tax evasion
On May 28, 2018, TV presenter Cui Yongyuan used social media to publish a redacted contract revealing Fan was paid ten million RMB for four days of work on Feng Xiaogang's upcoming film Cell Phone 2. The following day, Cui published a second redacted contract for the same task, indicating that the smaller contract was intended for reporting to tax authorities in order to avoid being taxed for her full remuneration of 60 million RMB. This admission prompted tax authorities in Jiangsu Province and Wuxi City to investigate a possible instance of tax evasion. Fan's studio made a statement denying that she had ever signed multiple contracts for the same job and stating that they would completely cooperate with authorities in the inquiry and address public concerns.
When Fan was not seen after her final public appearance on 1 July 2018 and there was no activity on social media after 23 July, questions, fears, and rumors regarding her whereabouts emerged. As Fan was assumed missing, rumors circulated that he had been arrested, but this was never substantiated. Fan's manager, Jersey Chong, revealed on social media in August that Fan was never arrested. Fan broke her silence on social media on 3 October 2018, apologizing to the public for tax cheating after Chinese authorities ordered her and her enterprises to pay around 883 million RMB (US$127.4 million) in taxes and penalties in order to escape criminal prosecution.
Main article: Fan Bingbing filmography
| Year | Album | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Just Begun |
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| Year | Title | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | "Floating in Chaos" (乱世浮萍) | Non-album singles |
| 2002 | "Happiness for Thousand Years" (幸福千万年) | |
| 2004 | "Flowers Blossom, At Ease" (花开自在) | |
| 2007 | "Beyond Love" (爱超越) | |
| "Chasing Love" (追爱) | ||
| "Rouge" (胭脂) | ||
| "Rouge Snow" (胭脂雪) | ||
| 2008 | "Dare to Fly" (勇敢飞) | |
| 2009 | "Love Ends, People Part Ways" (爱终人散) | |
| "I Thought" (我以为) | ||
| 2011 | "Farewell" (辞) | |
| 2013 | "One Night Surprise" (一夜惊喜) |
| Year | Award | Nominated work | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Hundred Flowers Awards | Fall in Love at First Sight | Best Actress | Nominated |
| 2004 | Huabiao Awards | Cell Phone | Outstanding New Actress | Nominated |
| Hundred Flowers Awards | Best Actress | Won | ||
| Golden Rooster Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated | ||
| Chinese Film Media Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated | ||
| 2007 | Golden Bauhinia Awards | A Battle of Wits | Best Actress | Nominated |
| Golden Horse Awards | The Matrimony | Best Supporting Actress | Won | |
| 2010 | 29th Hong Kong Film Awards | Bodyguards and Assassins | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated |
| 30th Hundred Flowers Awards | Best Actress | Nominated | ||
| 2011 | 23rd Tokyo International Film Festival | Buddha Mountain | Best Actress | Won |
| Beijing College Student Film Festival | Won | |||
| 2012 | China Film Director's Guild Awards | Nominated | ||
| Huading Awards | Double Xposure | Won | ||
| Chinese Film Media Awards | Nominated | |||
| 2013 | Beijing College Student Film Festival | Nominated | ||
| China Film International Festival London | One Night Surprise | Nominated | ||
| — | Most Influential Chinese Actress Overseas | Won | ||
| 2015 | Huading Awards | The White Haired Witch of Lunar Kingdom | Best Actress | Nominated |
| Huading Awards | The Empress of China | Nominated | ||
| Best Producer | Nominated | |||
| 2016 | Berlin Chinese Film Festival | Ever Since We Love | Best Actress | Won |
| Gold Aries Award Macau International Film Festival | Nominated | |||
| Golden Screen Awards | Skiptrace | Best Supporting Actress | Won | |
| 64th San Sebastián International Film Festival | I Am Not Madame Bovary | Silver Shell for Best Actress | Won | |
| 53rd Golden Horse Awards | Best Leading Actress | Nominated | ||
| 2017 | 31st Golden Rooster Awards | Best Actress | Won | |
| 11th Asian Film Awards | Won | |||
| 2022 | Asia Contents Awards | — | Popularity Award | Won |
| Asia Model Awards | Asia Star Award | Won | ||
| 2023 | Golden Raspberry Awards | The King's Daughter and The 355 | Worst Supporting Actress | Nominated |
| Body Measurements | 32-24-34 inches |
| Bodytype | Slim |
| Height | 5 feet 6 inches (1.68 m) |
| Weight | 51 kg (112 lbs) |
| Waist | 24 inches |
| Hair Color | Black |
| Eye Color | Black |
| Shoe Size | 6 (US) |
| Nickname | Fàn Bīngbīng |
| Gender | Female |
| Age | 41 years old (in 2023) |
| Date of Birth | September 16, 1981 |
| Full Name | Fan Bingbing |
| Profession | Actress, Model, Television, Producer, Singer |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Birthplace | Qingdao, China |
| Religion | Christianity |
| Zodiac Sign | Virgo |
Qualification: Shanghai Xie Jin Film and Television Art College Shanghai Theatre Academy
Profession: Actress, Model, Television, Producer, Singer
Known For: The Empress of China
Net Worth: $100 Million Approx
Father: Fan Tao
Mother: Zhang Chuanmei
Brother: Fan Chengcheng
Marital Status: Single
Hobbies: Painting, Dancing
Favorite Destination: Finland
Favorite Food: Rice
Favorite Color: Red, Brown
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