Biography
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Film
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Ziyi's name in the movie
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Much more are coming...
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2004
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2046
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2003
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Purple Butterfly
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Cynthia/Ding Hui
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2002
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Hero
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Moon
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2001
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Rush Hour 2
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Hu Li
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2001
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Musa
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N/A
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2001
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Zu: Warrriors of the Magic Mountain II
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Général Cheng Tianle
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2000
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
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Jen Yu
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1999
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The Road Home
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Zhao Di, Young
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At 8 years her parents registered it in a school of dance because she was of fragile health. She practised during 9 years before passing to the training of the dramatic art to the academy of Peking into 96. She was noticed thanks to 2 turned commercials at Hong Kong. The director Zhang Yimou discovered her, and gave her at 19 years and the principal role of THE ROAD HOME . Then there were at 21 years her first international movie Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon a film of martial arts for a testing turning 5 months. Her favorite actors are Al Pacino and Sophie Marceau. We'll see her in one of Hong Kong's films the most waited, ZU 2 of Tsui Hark which will be accross europe the next year.
Impulsive, naughty, poised yet childlike, Zhang is the daughter of an economist father and a kindergarten teacher mother, and is a native Beijinger. Zhang feels she worked hard from an early age. She left home at 11 and remembers climbing out of bed at 5 a.m. to study gymnastics and never sleeping until 11 p.m. Competition was an early feature of her life. "The girls at my school were competing for status, for leadership, for the affection of teachers. And I hated it. It was a dark time." So dark that she ran away from school at 13, causing her parents to call the police to track her down. "I wanted to escape so badly, so I hid in a little thicket of grass. I could hear all the teachers calling my name, but it was only when I heard my Mom's voice that I came out. It was a fleeting kind of escape."-Time Asia, Dec/11/00