1. Fan Bingbing followed with television series such as The Proud Twins, Eight Heroes, and The Empress of China while collaborating with Li Yu on art-house films such as Lost in Beijing, Buddha Mountain, and Double Xposure.
55 Facts About Fan Bingbing
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Fan Bingbing reunited with Feng in I Am Not Madame Bovary, which won her the Silver Shell for Best Actress and the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress.
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Fan Bingbing appeared on Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in 2017.
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Fan Bingbing returned to acting with a cameo in South Korean TV show Insider, followed by a starring role in Hong Kong film Green Night.
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Fan Bingbing was born and raised in the coastal city of Yantai, Shandong.
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Fan Bingbing grew up watching her father, Fan Bingbing Tao, a pop singer, perform at regional competitions.
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Fan Bingbing's mother, Zhang Chuanmei, was a dancer and an actress.
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Fan Bingbing has a younger brother Fan Bingbing Chengcheng, who was a member of boy group Nine Percent and NEXT.
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In 1995, during her second year at high school, Fan Bingbing was involved a car accident and spent three months recuperating in a hospital, where she watched the Taiwanese drama The Empress of the Dynasty, starring Angela Pan as Wu Zetian.
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Unable to advance to her senior year due to the accident while unwilling to repeat the second year, Fan Bingbing applied to a performance school, Shanghai Xie Jin-Hengtong School of Arts.
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Fan Bingbing debuted in the television series Powerful Woman, where she met actress Leanne Liu, who recommended her for the television series My Fair Princess.
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In 2003, Fan Bingbing starred in Cell Phone, which became China's highest-grossing film of the year and earned her the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress.
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Fan Bingbing signed an eight-year contract with Chiung Yao's company, which produced My Fair Princess.
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Fan Bingbing appeared in The Lion Roars, The Twins Effect II, A Chinese Tall Story, and A Battle of Wits.
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Fan Bingbing received a nomination for Best Actress at the 12th Golden Bauhinia Awards for her role in the Chinese-South-Korean-Japanese epic film A Battle of Wits.
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Fan Bingbing starred in eight films in 2007, winning Best Supporting Actress at the 44th Golden Horse Awards for her role in The Matrimony.
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Fan Bingbing played the starring role in the production, portraying a poor girl who fights for freedom against fate after being sold to a wealthy and influential clan.
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Fan Bingbing featured in historical action film Bodyguards and Assassins, which earned her a nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 29th Hong Kong Film Awards.
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In 2010, Fan Bingbing starred in Chen Kaige's historical epic, Sacrifice.
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In 2011, Fan Bingbing starred in the martial arts film Shaolin alongside Andy Lau and Jackie Chan and The Founding of a Party, which was released to mark the 90th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party.
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In 2013, Fan Bingbing appeared as Dr Wu's assistant, Wu Jiaqi, in the mainland Chinese version of Iron Man 3, which was released on 1 May The same year, she starred alongside Aarif Rahman in the romantic comedy One Night Surprise, which aired on Chinese Valentine's Day.
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On 9 December 2013, the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group's B2C business Taobao announced that Fan Bingbing topped the list of the most valuable celebrities for boosting online business and said that Fan Bingbing influenced approximately in sales on its ecommerce website.
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In 2014, Fan Bingbing portrayed the mutant Blink in the American superhero film X-Men: Days of Future Past.
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Fan Bingbing announced that she has a four-film contract with 20th Century Fox, yet she has not appeared in another X-Men film since.
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In 2015, Fan Bingbing joined the China Central Television variety show as a judge in Amazing Chinese and as a contestant in the reality television show Challenger's Alliance.
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Fan Bingbing won the Best Actress award at the 1st Berlin Chinese Film Festival for her role in the film.
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Fan Bingbing was ranked fourth on Forbes World's Highest-Paid Actresses list for 2015.
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Fan Bingbing was featured in the action comedy Skiptrace alongside Jackie Chan and Johnny Knoxville, which won her Best Supporting Actress at the 1st Golden Screen Awards.
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Fan Bingbing won the Silver Shell for Best Actress at the 64th San Sebastian International Film Festival and the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress for her performance in I Am Not Madame Bovary, directed by Feng Xiaogang.
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Fan Bingbing was honored at the 2017 Time 100 Gala in Manhattan, recognized on Time magazine's list of the one-hundred most influential people of 2017.
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Fan Bingbing starred in the 2017 French film The Lady in the Portrait, co-starring Melvil Poupaud.
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In June 2017, Fan Bingbing was invited to become a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Since 2018, Fan Bingbing's career has been derailed by a tax evasion scandal.
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Fan Bingbing apologized to Fan for subjecting her to the investigation, stating that his targets were Feng Xiaogang and Liu Zhenyun, the director and the writer of Cell Phone.
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Questions, concerns, and rumors about Fan Bingbing's whereabouts grew when she was not seen after a last public appearance on 1 July 2018, and a lack of activity on social media after 23 July.
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When Fan Bingbing requested to use the restroom during the transfer, officers cleared the area to prevent exposure.
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Fan Bingbing's case triggered a tax audit crackdown and reforms in China's entertainment industry.
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Since the tax scandal, Fan Bingbing has been effectively blacklisted in mainland China, where her films and television works are prohibited from being released, such as the crime film The Perfect Blue, directed by Cao Baoping, and the historical drama The Legend of Ba Qing.
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Fan Bingbing made attempts at a comeback in China with varying degrees of success, with her publicity usually censored or shadowbanned on the Chinese internet.
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On November 17, Fan Bingbing presented an award at the "2020 Ellemen Film Hero Awards Ceremony" for the animated film Legend of Deification.
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Unlike many other convicted celebrities in China, after the tax scandal, Fan Bingbing was allowed to maintain a social media presence, which she parlayed into a successful career running her personal brand, Fan Bingbing Beauty.
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Fan Bingbing's performances received negative notices and earned her a nomination for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress.
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In February 2025, Fan Bingbing joined the competition jury at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, presided over by Todd Haynes.
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On 13 May 2010, Fan Bingbing wore a "Dragon Robe" on the red carpet of the 63rd Cannes Film Festival.
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On 11 May 2011, Fan Bingbing wore a crane dress on the red carpet at the opening ceremony of the 64th Cannes Film Festival.
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Fan Bingbing joined the opening ceremony of 2013 Cannes Film Festival premiere, wearing a custom Louis Vuitton gown, and that was the first time the French fashion house had created a gown especially for an Asian actress.
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Fan Bingbing was ranked on Vanity Fair's International Best Dressed list 2015 and 2016.
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Fan Bingbing was named global ambassador of several brands such as ReFa Beauty Care Tools, De Beers, King Power, and Montblanc.
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On 27 May 2024, it was announced that Fan Bingbing was appointed as Malacca's tourism ambassador, she toured the Malaysian state from 14 June till 16 June.
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In 2001, Fan Bingbing dated actor Han Qing after co-starring in the 2001 TV drama Luan Shi Piao Ping.
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From 2004 to 2007, Fan Bingbing dated actor Wang Xuebing after co-starring in the 2004 TV drama Jian Lin Tian Xia.
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Fan Bingbing suggested on Kangsi Coming that they broke up around the end of 2014, while Rahman tacitly acknowledged on S-style Show with Dee Hsu that Fan Bingbing and he had been in a relationship.
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Fan Bingbing explained in 2020 that she left him to protect him from the fallout of her tax scandal, which had affected both Li's career and her brother Fan Bingbing Chengcheng's.
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In 2022, Fan Bingbing began a relationship with Guo Yanfeng, a former PLA officer who served as vice chairman of Gaosheng Wealth Group, a Zhongzhi-affiliated firm, before becoming a business partner in her brand Fan Bingbing Beauty.
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In 2024, Fan Bingbing moved to Hong Kong after reportedly acquiring residency through an investment immigration program.