Joan Chen

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Joan Chen Fast Facts:

Birth name Chén Chōng is translated as "charge on."
Her parents, both physicians, were sent to re-education camps during China's Cultural Revolution.
Was a teen film star in China after being discovered by Jiang Qing, the wife of Chairman Mao Zedong, who sent her to study acting at the Shanghai Film Studio.
Moved to the U.S. at age 20, and was discovered (in the parking lot of Lorimar studios) by producer Dino Di Laurentiis, who cast her in the 1986 adventure Tai-Pan.
Breakout role was as the drug-addicted Chinese empress in Bernardo Bertolucci's 1986 epic The Last Emperor.
Biggest TV role was mill owner Josie Packard in Twin Peaks; had guest roles in a number of series in the '80s and '90s, including MacGyver, Miami Vice, Night Stalker and Homicide: Life in the Streets.
Her directorial debut, Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl (1999), an acclaimed drama critical of the cultural revolution, was banned in China.

Joan Chen Relationships:
Jim Lau - Ex-husband
Peter Hui - Husband
Chase Chen - Brother
Angela Frances Hui - Daughter
Chen Xing Rong - Father
Zhang An Zhong - Mother
Audrey Hui - Daughter
College:
Atended State University of New York, New Paltz, NY; California State University, Northridge, CA (BA in Film Production, 1991)