Internationally acclaimed Chinese actress and singer, Zhou Xun, made her screen debut in Strange Tales Amongst Old and Desolute Tombs (1991), and had her breakout role in Lou Ye’s Suzhou River (2000), winner of the Tiger Award at Rotterdam International Film Festival. She has appeared in many films from both Mainland China and Hong Kong and gained international recognition for her roles in Suzhou River (2000) and Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002). She was highly acclaimed for her role in Peter Chan’s 2005 musical film, Perhaps Love, for which she won the Best Actress Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards, the Hong Kong Film Critic’s Society Awards, the Golden Bauhinia Awards and the Golden Horse Awards. In 2005, she starred in Feng Xiaogang’s The Banquet, followed by her portrayal of a maverick martial arts princess in Susie Au’s Ming Ming (2006). She also plays the lead in Painted Skin (2008), a remake of a classic supernatural thriller of the same name.

Accolades

Zhou Xun
Best Performance by an Actress, 2017

Zhou Xun

Best Performance by an Actress, 2017

Zhou Xun

Our Time Will Come (Ming Yue Ji Shi You)

Internationally acclaimed Chinese actress and singer, Zhou Xun, made her screen debut in Strange Tales Amongst Old and Desolute Tombs (1991), and had her breakout role in Lou…

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Zhou Xun
Best Performance by an Actress, 2009

Zhou Xun

Best Performance by an Actress, 2009

Zhou Xun

The Equation of Love and Death (Li Mi de caixiang)

Internationally acclaimed Chinese actress and singer, Xun Zhou, made her screen debut in Strange Tales Amongst Old and Desolute Tombs in 1991. She has appeared in many films…

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Films

Our Time Will Come
2017

Our Time Will Come (Ming Yue Ji Shi You)

People's Republic of China, Hong Kong
2017

Our Time Will Come (Ming Yue Ji Shi You)

1941. Hong Kong is under Japanese occupation. During the three-year-and-eight-month occupation, the Japanese military pillaged homes and arrested cultural figures living in Hong Kong. The…

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The Equation of Love and Death
2009

The Equation of Love and Death (Li Mi de caixiang)

People's Republic of China, Hong Kong
2009

The Equation of Love and Death (Li Mi de caixiang)

The Equation of Love and Death tells the story of Li Mi (played by Zhou Xun), a Kunming cab driver who longs for the day…

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