Jiang Wen
Gender: Male
Born: 5th January 1963 (currently 47 years old)
Nationality: China
Movies: Green Tea, Red Sorghum, Warriors of Heaven and Earth, The Missing Gun, Guizi lai le, Li Lianying: The Imperial Eunuch, Keep Cool, Jasmine Women, Lotus Lantern, The Emperor's Shadow, Lost·Indulgence, Chun Tao, Hibiscus Town
Jiang Wen (Chinese: 姜文; pinyin: Jiāng Wén; born January 5, 1963) is a Chinese film actor and director. As a director, he is sometimes grouped with the "sixth generation" that emerged in the 1990s. He is also well known internationally as an actor, such as the male lead opposite Gong Li in fifth generation director Zhang Yimou's debut Red Sorghum (1986).
He has a younger brother who is also an actor, Jiang Wu.
Born in Tangshan, Hebei province into an army family, Jiang Wen relocated to Beijing at the age of 6. In 1980, he entered China's foremost acting school, the Central Academy of Drama, graduating in 1984. That same year, he started acting both on the stage (with the China Youth Theater) and in films.
After appearing in many television serials and films, Jiang became renowned in China for his starring role in the 1992 TV series Beijingers in New York, which made him one of the best-loved actors of his generation. In addition to these he also starred in Hibiscus Town (1984, directed by Xie Jin), Black Snow (1990, directed by Xie Fei), The Emperor's Shadow (1996, directed by Zhou Xiaowen) and The Soong Sisters (1997). Other than Red Sorghum, Jiang also collaborated with Zhang
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