1. Chang Chen was born on 14 October 1976 and is a Taiwanese actor.
18 Facts About Chang Chen
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Chang Chen is best known for his roles in A Brighter Summer Day, Happy Together, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Three Times, Brotherhood of Blades, The Assassin and The Soul.
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Chang Chen was selected by a Taiwanese film director Edward Yang to be the protagonist of a four-hour-long critically acclaimed film A Brighter Summer Day, which won the Special Jury Prize at the Tokyo International Film Festival.
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One of the earliest films Chang acted in was Wong Kar-wai's Happy Together.
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Chang Chen rose to fame for his role as "Dark Cloud" in the 2000 film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, directed by Ang Lee.
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Chang Chen then co-starred with Shu Qi in Hou Hsiao-hsien's Three Times, which competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival and won Golden Horse accolades for Outstanding Taiwanese Film of the Year, among other awards.
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In 2006, Chang Chen was nominated for the Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actor for his role in The Go Master, a dramatisation of the life of the Go master Wu Qingyuan.
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Chang Chen then starred in the historical war epic Red Cliff, portraying the warlord Sun Quan.
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Chang Chen was nominated at the Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Supporting Actor.
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Chang Chen next starred in the 2012 historical epic The Last Supper directed by Lu Chuan and the 2013 kungfu epic The Grandmaster by Wong Kar-wai.
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In 2014, Chang Chen headlined the wuxia film Brotherhood of Blades, which won commercial success and critical acclaim.
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Chang Chen earned his third nomination for Best Actor in the Golden Horse Awards.
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Chang Chen reunited with Three Times director Hou Hsiao-hsien and co-star Shu Qi in the 2015 wuxia film The Assassin, which competed for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
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In 2017, Chang Chen played the title character in the action film Mr Long, which was selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the main competition section of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival.
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Chang Chen served as a jury member at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.
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In 2021, Chang Chen played Dr Wellington Yueh in Denis Villeneuve's epic science fiction film Dune.
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Chang Chen served as a jury member at the 59th Golden Horse Awards in 2022.
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In June 2023, Chang Chen was invited to become a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.