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Born in Beijing, People's Republic of China, Zhang joined the Beijing Dancing College at the age of 11, and at 15 she joined the Beijing Dancing Academy. However by the age of 16 she decided to practice acting. Her first film was a low-budget made-for television movie called Touching Starlight. Her second film was The Road Home, which won the Silver Bear award in the 2000 Berlin Film Festival.

She further rose to fame due to her role in the internationally successful film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. In 2001 she co-starred alongside Jackie ChanJackie Chan born Chan Kong-sang (; Gwohngdongwa pengyam: Can4 Gohng2 Sang1; Jyutping: can4 gong2 sang1; Pinyin: Chen Gngsheng, WG: Ch'en Kung-shang) (born April 7, 1954), Chinese screen name Sing Lung (; Gwohngdongwa pengyam: Seng4 Long4; yp Sing4 Lung4; and Chris TuckerChris Tucker (born August 31, 1972) is an American actor and comedian who has appeared in a number of hit movies. His first major movie role was alongside former rapper Ice Cube in the 1995 movie Friday but his best-known role was in the martial-arts acti in Rush Hour 2Rush Hour 2 a film made in 2001. It is the sequel to the original Rush Hour , the story follows where the original left off with Chief Inspector Lee ( Jackie Chan) and Detective James Carter ( Chris Tucker) travelling to Hong Kong for a holiday however so. Both of these as well as the Chinese-language HeroHero ( Chinese: ; pinyin: ying xiong) is a film first released in China on October 24, 2002. It was both the most expensive and the highest-grossing motion picture in Chinese cinema history. It hit US theaters on August 27, 2004 despite the fact that the were highly successful in the English speaking world.

She is set to again appear with Michelle YeohDato' Michelle Yeoh ( pinyin: Yang Zqiong; born August 6 1962) is a Hong Kong-based actress and dancer, sometimes billed as "Michelle Khan". Yeoh is a Malaysian Chinese born in Ipoh, Malaysia. Despite having no formal martial arts training, Yeoh is best k in the adaptation of Memoirs Of A Geisha, produced by Steven SpielbergSteven Allan Spielberg KBE (born on December 18, 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a Jewish American film director whose films range from science fiction to historical drama to horror. He is noted for the patriotism of his work and, in recent years, for his wi.

1 Filmography

• Good Cook, Likes Music (2005)
• Memoirs of a GeishaMemoirs of a Geisha is a novel by Arthur Golden published in 1997. It is the story of a geisha working in Kyoto during World War II. Controversy After the novel was published, Arthur Golden was sued by the geisha he worked with for defamation and breach o (2005)
• Operetta Tanukigoten (2005)
• Jasmine Women (2004)
• House of Flying Daggers (2004)
• 2046 (2004)
• Purple Butterfly (2003)
• My Wife Is A Gangster 2 (2003)
• Hero (2002)
• Musa (2001)
• The Legend Of Zu (2001)
• Rush Hour 2 (2001)
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
• The Road Home (1999)
• Starlight (1996)