Shanghai-born actress who won China's Hundred Flowers Award for 小花 (1979), then moved to the United States, where she played the empress in The Last Emperor and starred in Twin Peaks. She also directs films.
Joan Chen was the first Chinese actress to present at the Academy Awards.
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Time magazine called her 'the Elizabeth Taylor of China'. Her first film as director, 天浴 (Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl, 1998), won her the Golden Horse award for best director in Taiwan.
