陈冲

　　1961年出生于中国上海。1975年，被上海电影制片厂选中，在上影厂演员剧团学习表演。陈冲首部主演的电影是由著名导演谢晋执导的《青春》。她主演的第二部影片《小花》为她赢得了1980年中国电影“百花奖”最佳女演员奖。

　　1981年，陈冲从中国去美国学习电影制作，并以优异的成绩毕业于Northridge的加利福尼亚州立大学。1985年起，她开始了在美国的表演生涯。主演了《大班》、奥斯卡获奖影片《末代皇帝》、《壮士血》、《金门大桥》以及《天与地》。陈冲还在大卫·林奇指导的连续剧《双峰》中主演了高深莫测的Josie Packard。1993年，她重返故乡上海，拍摄由关锦鹏执导的《红玫瑰与白玫瑰》，片中红玫瑰一角让她获得金马奖最佳女主角和香港电影金像奖最佳女主角提名。

　　1997年，陈冲被《综艺》杂志评选为十大最受关注导演。她作为导演的第二部影片是米高梅公司投拍的《纽约的秋天》，由理查·吉尔和维诺娜·赖德主演。

　　2003年，陈冲主演了中国影片《茉莉花开》，这个故事讲述了生活在上海的一家三代女人从30年到80年代的故事。同年，她在另一部影片《面子》中扮演一个情感复杂的角色，影片讲述的是一个中国母亲和她的美籍女儿之间的关系。陈冲最近又主演了另一部中国影片《向日葵》，描述了一个家庭从70年代到现在的悲欢离合。《茉莉花开》、《面子》以及《向日葵》将于2005年发行放映。

　　Joan Chen was born in Shanghai, China in1961. She was selected for the Actor’s Training Program by the Shanghai Film Studio in 1975. Joan’s first starring role was in the movie Youth directed by the famous veteran director Xie Jin. Her second film Little Flower won her the Best Actress Award in China in 1980.

　　Joan left China for America in 1981 to study film making, and graduated Cum Laude from California State University, Northridge. She began her US acting career in 1985, when she played leading role in Taipan, the academy award winning The Last Emperor, Blood of Heroes, Turtle Beach, Golden Gate and Heaven and Earth. Joan also starred as the enigmatic Josie Packard in the highly regarded David Lynch series Twin Peaks. In 1993, she returned to her hometown Shanghai and starred in Stanley Kwan’s Red Rose, White Rose. Her role as sultry Red Rose later won the Best Actress Award in Taiwan and Film Critics Award in Hong Kong.

　　In 1997 Joan was voted as one of the Ten Directors to Watch by Variety. Joan’s second effort behind the camera was MGM’s Autumn In New York starring Richard Gere and Winona Ryder.

　　In 2003, Joan starred in the Chinese film Jasmine, a story of three generations of women in Shanghai from the 1930s to the 1980s. Later that year, she played the complex and fun character of Ma in a Sony Classic production, Saving Face, a film about a hilarious relationship of a Chinese mother and her American daughter. Joan has recently finished a leading role in another Chinese film Sunflower, a family drama that spans from the 1970s to the present. Jasmine, Saving Face and Sunflower will be released in 2005.