1. Gao Yuanyuan ranked 64th on Forbes China Celebrity 100 list in 2013,40th in 2014,76th in 2015, and 86th in 2017.
25 Facts About Gao Yuanyuan
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Gao Yuanyuan was born in Beijing and graduated from China Institute of Industrial Relations.
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Gao Yuanyuan made her debut in the 1997 film Spicy Love Soup.
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Gao Yuanyuan rose to fame in 2003 for her role as Zhou Zhiruo in the television adaptation of Louis Cha's The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber.
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Gao Yuanyuan made inroads into the international market with the film Shanghai Dreams, directed by Wang Xiaoshuai, which won the Prix de Jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Gao Yuanyuan was then picked by Jackie Chan to star in the action comedy movie Rob-B-Hood.
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Chan has characterized Gao Yuanyuan as having the "freshest look and chaste spirit no Hong Kong actress could approach".
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Gao Yuanyuan next starred in the romance film Love in the City opposite Shawn Yue, where she plays a deaf-mute kindergarten teacher.
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Gao Yuanyuan's performance won her the Newcomer Award at the 11th Golden Phoenix Awards.
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Gao Yuanyuan was then cast in City of Life and Death, directed by Lu Chuan and based on the events of the Nanjing Massacre.
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Gao Yuanyuan called the role a "turning point" in her career, stating that she had never started taking acting seriously until she worked on the film.
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In 2010, Gao Yuanyuan starred alongside Korean actor Jung Woo-sung in the romantic film A Season of Good Rain directed by Hur Jin-ho, as well as the omnibus romance drama film Driverless.
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In 2012, Gao Yuanyuan starred in Chen Kaige's Caught in the Web where she plays a young woman who commits suicide after she becomes embroiled in a social media controversy.
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Gao Yuanyuan returned to television in 2013 with the television series We Get Married, playing a "leftover" unmarried woman who gets entangled with a man who has a phobia of marriage.
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Gao Yuanyuan reprised her role in the film adaptation of the drama.
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Gao Yuanyuan then starred alongside Nicholas Tse in the romantic film But Always.
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Gao Yuanyuan won the Best Foreign Actress Award at the 52nd Grand Bell Awards.
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In 2017, Gao Yuanyuan ranked 86th on Forbes China Celebrity 100 list.
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Gao Yuanyuan was a torch-bearer in the Nanjing leg of the torch relay for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
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In 2012, Gao Yuanyuan became the first Chinese brand ambassador for French luxury house Longchamp.
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Gao Yuanyuan was appointed as California's tourism ambassador to China in 2013.
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Gao Yuanyuan was picked as she "embodies the California brand and spirit and will share her authentic passion for California with the Chinese public, inspiring their California dreams".
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In 2020, Gao Yuanyuan became the brand ambassador for Michael Kors.
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Since 2021, Gao Yuanyuan became the brand spokesperson for French high-end jeweller Chaumet.
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Gao Yuanyuan married Taiwanese actor Mark Chao in 2014, after collaborating in the film Caught in the Web.