Joan Chen

Chen, Joan Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Relative Insanity

  2014, role: actress , character name: Pearl
• Play in Full Screen Haishang Meng fu

  2012, role: actress , character name: Er Jie
• Play in Full Screen Sui Tang yingxiong

  2012, role: actress , character name: Empress Dugu
• Play in Full Screen Shanghai Strangers

  2012, role: director
• Play in Full Screen White Frog

  2012, role: actress , character name: Irene Young
• Play in Full Screen Shanghai Stranger

  2012, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Shanghai Strangers

  2012, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Hemingway & Gellhorn

  2012, role: actress , character name: Madame Chiang Kai Shek
• Play in Full Screen Shao an wu zao

  2012, role: actress , character name: Niu Jie
• Play in Full Screen Shanghai Strangers

  2012, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Re ai dao

  2012, role: actress
• Play in Full Screen Shanghai Strangers

  2012, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Er ci pu guang

  2012, role: actress , character name: Dr. Hao
• Play in Full Screen Xin hai ge ming

  2011, role: actress , character name: Empress Longyu
• Play in Full Screen Seeing Red

  2011, role: actress
• Play in Full Screen Seeing Red

  2011, role: director
• Play in Full Screen The Harvest

  2011, role: actress
• Play in Full Screen Kiss, His First

  2011, role: actress
• Play in Full Screen Lian ai tong gao

  2010, role: actress , character name: Joan
• Play in Full Screen Tonight at Noon

  2010, role: actress , character name: Joan
• Play in Full Screen To Whom It May Concern: Ka Shen's Journey

  2010, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Ai chu se

  2010, role: actress , character name: Zoe
• Play in Full Screen Xi you ji

  2010, role: actress , character name: Goddess of Mercy
• Play in Full Screen Ren dao zhong nian

  2009, role: actress , character name: Tian Wenjie
• Play in Full Screen Mao's Last Dancer

  2009, role: actress , character name: Niang
• Play in Full Screen Ceremonia de clausura - 56º festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián

  2008, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen All God's Children Can Dance

  2008, role: actress , character name: Evelyn
• Play in Full Screen Shi qi

  2008, role: actress , character name: Mother
• Play in Full Screen Ceremonia de inauguración - 56º festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián

  2008, role: actress , character name: Herself - Presenter
• Play in Full Screen Er shi si cheng ji

  2008, role: actress , character name: Gu Minhua
• Play in Full Screen Er shi si cheng ji

  2008, role: actress , character name: Xiao Hua
• Play in Full Screen Ka Shen's Journey

  2008, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Tiles of Deception, Lurid Affections: The Making of 'Lust, Caution'

  2008, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen The Leap Years

  2008, role: actress , character name: Li-Ann - age 48
• Play in Full Screen The Home Song Stories

  2007, role: actress , character name: Rose Hong
• Play in Full Screen The Home Song Stories

  2007, role: actress , character name: Hong Meigui
• Play in Full Screen Hollywood Chinese

  2007, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Tai yang zhao chang sheng qi

  2007, role: actress , character name: Dr. Lin
• Play in Full Screen The 2007 Australian Film Institute Awards

  2007, role: actress , character name: Herself - Award recipient
• Play in Full Screen Se, jie

  2007, role: actress , character name: Yee Tai Tai
• Play in Full Screen Secrets from Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks

  2007, role: actress , character name: Herself - 'Jocelyn 'Josie' Packard'
• Play in Full Screen 2006 Asian Excellence Awards

  2006, role: actress , character name: Herself - Nominee
• Play in Full Screen Americanese

  2006, role: actress , character name: Betty Nguyen
• Play in Full Screen San Sebastián 2005: Crónica de Carlos Boyero

  2005, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Xiang ri kui

  2005, role: actress , character name: Zhang Xiuqing
• Play in Full Screen Avatar

  2004, role: actress , character name: Madame Ong
• Play in Full Screen Mo li hua kai

  2004, role: actress , character name: Mo's Mother
• Play in Full Screen Mo li hua kai

  2004, role: actress , character name: Elder Mo
• Play in Full Screen Saving Face

  2004, role: actress , character name: Hwei-Lan Gao - Ma
• Play in Full Screen Independent View

  2002, role: actress , character name: Herself

Chen, Joan Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Diva Viva

  2008, role: miscellaneous crew

Famous quotes by Joan Chen:

"There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I'll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype."

"Things had just happened to me, good things and bad things, and I took them."

"I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't."

"I went to California to study drama and study film, still with the goal of going back to China. I stayed for at least four years and then I visited China. I was a little lost. I was very homesick. I took a risk, I went back to China and realized that I have actually changed, that China as a whole wasn't what I imagined it to be."

"To be an Asian, to be a minority, not to see ourselves as always me the minority, the victim, you the dominant culture. It's a shift of paradigm. Once you see things differently, you gain power. All of a sudden there is enlightenment."

"There are only so many roles as empresses... but I've had a lot of offers to play vampires."

"If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it."

"All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away."

"I am not the best girlfriend or lawyer or the reporter. I am the drama-queen type. You know. So it is somehow in my style, in my upbringing, in the way I look: I need to be the dramatic one."

"The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test."

"How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid."

"I don't find intimate scenes more difficult than other scenes."

"Beauty is the result of having been through an experience all the way through to the end - therefore it has a poignancy. Beauty that is singular always comes from following an experience to the point where you can go no further."

"I don't want to tell people what I make. It's a lot more than I ever dreamed of as a kid. I never think about it."

"My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport."

"There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother."

"Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice."

"As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director."

"The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better than shooting in Tibet."