Liao Fan is a prolific and versatile actor who performs in both mainstream and independent films. He won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 64th Berlin Film Festival for his role in Black Coal, Thin Ice – where the film won the Golden Bear. He won the Best Actor prize at the Singapore International Film Festival for his performance in Green Hat (2004) and was nominated for a Golden Horse Award for his performance in Ocean Flame (2008). His long list of credits includes: Chicken Poets (2002), Curiosity Kills the Cat (2006), Feng Xiaogang’s Assembly (2007) and If You Are the One II (2010), Jiang Wen’s Let the Bullets Fly (2011), Stanley Kwan’s Showtime (2011), Huang Jianxin’s Beginning of the Great Revival (2011) and Gimme Kudos (2005), Love on Credit (2011), Love is not Blind (2011) and Jackie Chan’s Chinese Zodiac (2012).
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