Joan Chen Chong (Traditional Chinese: 陳冲; Simplified Chinese: 陈冲; Mandarin Pinyin: Chén ChÃ…Âng; Cantonese: 陳沖/Chan Chung; Cantonese IPA: [tsÊ°ÉÂn tsÊ°ÊŠÅ‹]; Jyutping: can4 cung1; Yale: chan4 chung1; born April 26, 1961, in Shanghai, China) is a Chinese-born actress and film director, best known for her roles in The Last Emperor, Twin Peaks, Saving Face, and for directing Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl.
Chen Chong first became famous in China for her performance in Little Flower (Chinese: å°Â花) for which she won the A-Hundred-Flower Award. As well as her performance in Little Flower, Chen is famous in China for her role in the film Overseas Compatriots (Chinese: 海外赤åÂÂ) (1979), which depicts an overseas Chinese family that returned to China from southeast Asia out of their patriotic feelings but encountered political troubles during the Cultural Revolution. The songs, I Love You, China and High Flies the Petrel, both appeared in the film through the voice of the heroine played by Chen Chong, are perennial favorites of serious music lovers in China.
At age eighteen she won the Golden Rooster award for acting in China. At age twenty she moved to the United States where she studied film at California State University, Northridge. In 1989, she became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
Her first Hollywood movie was Tai-Pan, filmed on location in China. She went on to star in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor in 1987 and the David Lynch/Mark Frost television series Twin Peaks.
In 1994 she came back in Shanghai to star in critically acclaimed Stanley Kwan's Red Rose White Rose (Chinese: 紅玫瑰白玫瑰; Hanyu Pinyin: Hóng Méigui Bái Méigui) opposite Wilson Chao and Veronica Yip.
She directed critically acclaimed Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl (Chinese: 天浴; Hanyu Pinyin: TiÄÂn Yù) in 1998 and Autumn in New York in 2000. She has also appeared in many other movies in China, Hollywood, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
She married Cardiologist Peter Hui on Jan 18, 1992. They have 2 children and live in San Francisco.
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