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Chang Chen
at MTV Asia Awards 2006, Bangkok, Thailand
Chinese name	張震 (Traditional)
Chinese name	张震 (Simplified)
Pinyin	Zhāng Zhèn (Mandarin)
Jyutping	Zoeng1 Zan3 (Cantonese)
Ancestry	Yuyao, Zhejiang
Born	(1976-10-14) 14 October 1976 (age 35) Taipei, Taiwan
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1980 – present

Chang Chen (Chinese: 張震; pinyin: Zhāng Zhèn; born October 14, 1976) is a Taiwanese actor, born in Taipei, Taiwan. His name is sometimes seen in the Western order (Chen Chang). He is the son of a Taiwanese actor Chang Kuo Chu (張國柱) and brother of a Taiwanese actor, Chang Han (張翰).

Career[link]

Chang Chen started his film career at a very young age. He was then selected by a Taiwanese director Edward Yang to be the protagonist of his 4-hour critically acclaimed film A Brighter Summer Day (牯嶺街少年殺人事件). Coincidentally, his father, Chang Kuo Chu, had also participated in this film and acted as his character's father.

In the Ang Lee film, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, he played Lo "Dark Cloud" / Luo Xiao Hu, the lover of Zhang Ziyi's character, Jen.

He also appeared in the Wong Kar-wai film 2046^[1] as the boyfriend to Carina Lau's character Mimi / Lulu.

Chang also appeared opposite Shu Qi in Hou Hsiao Hsien's Three Times (2005), which was nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes and won Golden Horse accolades for Best Taiwanese film, among other awards. For that film he was also nominated for a "Best Actor" award at the 2005 Golden Horse Awards.

One of Chang's earliest roles was in Wong Kar-wai's film Happy Together.

He worked as a spokesperson for Lacoste, Shiatzy Chen and for Yamaha motor scooters. He has also recorded an album and a mini-album.

Chang was nominated for the 2006 Golden Horse Award for best actor for his role in The Go Master, a dramatization of the life of Wu Qingyuan. Chang made his Korean debut in Kim Ki-duk's "Breath".^[2]

Filmography[link]

• A Brighter Summer Day (1991) - Xiao Si'r
• Mahjong (1996) - Hong Kong
• Happy Together (1997) - Chang
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) - Lo 'Dark Cloud' / Luo Xiao Hu
• Flyin' Dance (2000) - Choi
• Betelnut Beauty (2001) - Feng
• Chinese Odyssey 2002 (2002) - Emperor Zheng De
• Six Days (2002) (DJ Shadow music video)
• Colour of Sound (2003) - Jie
• 2046 (2004) - Mimi's Boyfriend
• Eros (2004) - Zhang (segment "The Hand")
• Three Times (2005) - Chen/Mr. Chang/Zhen
• Silk (2006) - Tung
• The Go Master (2006)
• Breath (2007) - Jang Jin
• Blood Brothers (2007) - Mark
• Red Cliff - Sun Quan (2008)
• Missing (2008)
• Parking (2008)
• Red Cliff: Part 2 (2009) - Sun Quan
• Here Comes Fortune (2010)
• The Grandmasters (2011)
• The Founding of a Party (2011) - Chiang Kai-shek
• The Last Supper (2012)

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References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Chang Chen

• Chang Chen's Artist Profile on the 'Parking' movie's official website www.parkingmovie.asia
• Chang Chen at the Internet Movie Database
• Entry at lovehkfilm.com

Daniel Wu
Chinese name	吳彥祖 (Traditional)
Chinese name	吴彦祖 (Simplified)
Pinyin	Wú Yànzǔ (Mandarin)
Jyutping	Ng Yin Jou (Cantonese)
Ancestry	Shanghai, China
Origin	Hong Kong
Born	(1974-09-30) September 30, 1974 (age 37) Berkeley, California, United States
Occupation	actor, director, model
Years active	1998–present
Associated acts	Alive
Spouse(s)	Lisa S. (2010 - present)
Awards Hong Kong Film Awards Best New Director 2007 The Heavenly Kings Golden Horse Awards Best Supporting Actor 2004 New Police Story

Daniel Yin-Cho Wu (simplified Chinese: 吴彦祖; traditional Chinese: 吳彥祖; pinyin: Wú Yànzǔ; jyutping: Ng Yin Jou) (born 30 September 1974) is a Hong Kong actor, director and producer. Since his film debut in 1998, he has been featured in over 40 films. Wu has been called "the young Andy Lau,"^[1] and is known as a "flexible and distinctive" leading actor in the Chinese-language film industry.^[2]

Early life[link]

Wu was born in Berkeley, California, and raised in Orinda, California. His parents were immigrants from Shanghai, China.^[3] Wu developed an interest in martial arts when he saw Jet Li in The Shaolin Temple,^[1] and consequently began studying the form known as wushu at age 11.^[4] His childhood role model was Jackie Chan,^[5] a man who now considers Wu "like a son."^[6] Wu attended the Head-Royce School in Oakland, California^[7] and later majored in architecture at the University of Oregon. While there, he founded the University of Oregon Wushu club in 1994 and served as the team's first coach.^[8] During this time, Wu also took film classes and frequented local theaters, and came to enjoy the works of filmmakers like Akira Kurosawa and Luc Besson, who he describes as "men of vision."^[1] Following graduation, Wu traveled in 1997 to Hong Kong to witness the handover of Hong Kong, with no intention of taking on a movie career. At the suggestion of his sister, Wu began modeling.^[5][9] Four months later, film director Yonfan, after seeing Wu featured in a clothing ad at an MTR station, approached Wu about starring in an upcoming movie.^[1][10]

Acting career[link]

Despite his inability at the time to speak Hong Kong Cantonese^[11] or read Chinese,^[12] Wu successfully completed his first movie, Yonfan's Bishonen in 1998. Still today, when he receives a Cantonese script, his assistant reads the entire piece, while he is making notes on the pronunciation. The day after Bishonen wrapped, Wu was offered the leading role in Mabel Cheung's City of Glass (for which Wu was nominated as best new actor at the 18th Hong Kong Film Awards^[13]), and later, a supporting part in Young and Dangerous: The Prequel, from Andrew Lau's gangster film series. Around this time, Wu met superstar Jackie Chan at a restaurant opening,^[14] and was quickly signed to Chan's JC Group with agent Willie Chan.^[10] Wu's breakthrough performance came in 1999 with his role in Benny Chan's Gen-X Cops. He followed this success with roles in a variety of movies including big-budget thriller Purple Storm, art-house production Peony Pavilion, and the extremely successful Love Undercover. In 2001, Wu received criticism from the Hong Kong media for sexual scenes with Suki Kwan in Cop on a Mission, but Wu says that same criticism attracted the attention of directors and the film represented a turning point in the types of roles he chose in the future.^[15]

Wu's first experience in film production came with his starring role in Julian Lee's 2003 film, Night Corridor. Due to budgetary constraints, Wu also participated in the search for funding for, and distribution of, the film, and recruited Jun Kung to create the soundtrack.^[16] Though Night Corridor dealt with "risky" themes,^[9] Wu felt he had less reliance on image than many of his pop-star actor peers,^[16] and he was nominated for best actor at Taiwan's 40th Golden Horse Film Awards for his effort.^[17] During 2003, Wu also took part as producer and creative director on "MTV's Whatever Things!", a "Jackass"-styled program aired in Asia,^[18] also featuring Sam Lee, Josie Ho, Terence Yin, and other celebrities.^[19] Also during 2003, Wu took part in a stage production of The Happy Prince at the Edward Lam Dance Theater^[20] as part of the Hong Kong Arts Festival, during which he recited a 16-minute monologue in Cantonese, learned entirely from pinyin.^[21] In 2005, Wu was nominated as best actor at the 24th Hong Kong Film Awards for his role in Derek Yee's One Nite in Mongkok,^[22] and as best supporting actor for New Police Story.^[23] At the 41st Golden Horse Film Awards, Wu won the award for best supporting actor for New Police Story.^[24] The win came as a surprise to him, because he "didn't think that much" of his performance in the film.^[15]

In 2005, Chinese media began to report that Wu had formed a boyband, Alive, with Terence Yin, Andrew Lin, and Conroy Chan.^[25] Wu and his band mates posted information, updates, personal thoughts (including slamming Hong Kong Disneyland, for which they were spokespersons^[26]), and the band's music, at their official website.^[25][25][27] In 2006, Wu made his writing and directorial debut with The Heavenly Kings, which chronicles Alive's formation and exploits.^[28] After the film's release, however, it was revealed that The Heavenly Kings was actually a mockumentary of the Hong Kong pop music industry, and Alive was constructed purely as a vehicle to make the movie; the film's characters represented only 10-15% of their real-life counterparts^[29] and much of the footage blurred the line between fiction and reality.^[28] Wu admitted his own singing voice "sucked really bad," and the band had their voices digitally enhanced for its music, to prove that "it's easy to fake it."^[27] Despite some backlash from the media over being intentionally fed false information in the movie^[30] about illegal downloads of the band's music,^[29] Wu won the best new director award at the 26th Hong Kong Film Awards, an achievement he called "a group effort."^[30]

Other projects[link]

In April 2007, Wu re-launched his band's old website, AliveNotDead.com, with Terence Yin and RottenTomatoes.com founders Patrick Lee and Stephen Wang, as a place for filmmakers, musicians, and other artists to collaborate, receive exposure, network, and interact with fans.^[31][32] He continues his modeling career as spokesperson for a variety of products such as Seiko^[33] and L'Oréal.^[34] Wu posed for the charity photography album SuperStars by Leslie Kee,^[35] and performed on rapper Jin's song, "HK Superstar."^[36] Wu is an investor in Racks MDB Shanghai, which opened in 2008.^[37]

Personal life[link]

Wu's parents, George (a retired engineer) and Diana (a college professor)^[3] are natives of Shanghai, China. His father emigrated to the United States after the communist revolution in China in 1949, and met his mother in New York, where she was a student. After marrying they settled in California.^[5] Wu also has two older sisters, Greta and Gloria. He maintains residences in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Beijing.^[27] He continues to actively train in wushu as well as other martial arts.^[27]

On April 6, 2010, Wu married Lisa S. in South Africa.^[38]

Filmography[link]