1. Jiang Wen was born on 5 January 1963 and is a Chinese actor and filmmaker.
28 Facts About Jiang Wen
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Jiang Wen is the older brother of fellow actor Jiang Wu.
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Jiang Wen was born in Tangshan to a family of military personnel.
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Jiang Wen then starred in Hibiscus Town directed by Xie Jin; his role as an intellectual revolutionary earned him the Best Actor Award at the Hundred Flowers Awards.
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Jiang Wen paired with Hibiscus Town co-star in the film Chun Tao directed by Ling Zifeng.
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Jiang Wen was cast in Zhang Yimou's debut film Red Sorghum.
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Jiang Wen performed in the France-Chinese film Tears of the Bridal Sedan and his first commercial film The Trial.
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Apart from Red Sorghum, Jiang Wen collaborated with Zhang Yimou for the 1997 film Keep Cool.
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Jiang Wen starred in several films in the early 2000s; namely The Missing Gun, Green Tea, My Father and I, Warriors of Heaven and Earth, Jasmine Women and Letter from an Unknown Woman.
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Jiang Wen continued acted in television series, such as Da Qing Fengyun, in which he played Hong Taiji.
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Jiang Wen played notable historical figures, Mao Renfeng in the propaganda film The Founding of a Republic; and Cao Cao in the historical war film The Lost Bladesman.
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Jiang Wen co-starred in the Star Wars anthology film Rogue One, released in December 2016.
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Jiang Wen is set to return to the small screen in the historical drama Cao Cao.
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Jiang Wen wrote and directed his first film in 1994, In the Heat of the Sun, adapted from a novel by Wang Shuo.
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In 2000, Jiang Wen co-wrote and directed the black comedy film Devils on the Doorstep.
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Jiang Wen himself was banned from making films for seven years.
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Jiang Wen returned with his fourth feature The Sun Also Rises in 2007; a fantasy realism film which contains a polyptych of interconnected stories in different time-zones; the film received positive reviews from critics but bombed at the box office.
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Jiang Wen then collaborated with 10 other directors on the romance anthology film New York, I Love You.
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In 2014, Jiang Wen directed the action comedy film Gone with the Bullets, which screened at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.
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In 2018, Jiang Wen directed the Republican-era spy comedy Hidden Man.
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Jiang Wen's father is Jiang Hongqi, a veteran of the Korean War.
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Jiang Wen is the eldest son in the family; in addition to his younger brother, Jiang Wu, he has a younger sister, Jiang Huan.
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Close to his family, Jiang Wen has a deep bond with his parents: whenever he is on site for shooting or acting, he arranges for them to come to his workplace so that he can spend time with them.
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Later, during the filming of his first feature film, In the Heat of the Sun, Jiang Wen again considered their evaluation of Xia Yu, before settling on him as the leading actor.
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Jiang Wen met his first partner, Liu Xiaoqing during the production of his debut film Hibiscus Town.
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In 1995, Jiang Wen began a relationship with Sandrine Chenivesse, a Doctor of Anthropology at the University of Paris, researching philosophy and Taoism in China, at an artistic event.
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In 2001, during the filming of Warriors of Heaven and Earth, Jiang Wen was introduced to cast member Zhou Yun, by fellow actress Zhao Wei.
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Later, Jiang Wen recommended Zhou to the cast of The Music Box, but each left the crew after a creative difference between Jiang Wen and the director Chen Yifei.