Joan Chen

Born: 1961-04-26

Joan Chong Chen (born April 26, 1961) is a Chinese American actress, film director, screenwriter and film producer. She became famous in China for her performance in the 1979 film Little Flower and came to international attention for her performance in the 1987 Academy Award-winning film The Last Emperor. She is also known for her roles in Twin Peaks, Red Rose White Rose, Saving Face and The Home Song Stories, and for directing the feature film Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl.


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as Dr. Ilsa Hayden
Released: 1995-06-30

In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers)...

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Dìdi (弟弟)

as Chungsing Wang
Released: 2024-07-26

In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable...

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Lust, Caution

as Mrs. Yee
Released: 2007-09-24

During World War II, a secret agent must seduce then assassinate an official who works for the...

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as Toni
Released: 2020-07-02

A black ops assassin is forced to fight for her own survival after a job goes dangerously wrong.

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The Last Emperor

as Wan Jung
Released: 1987-10-04

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief...

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Hachiko

as Li Jiazhen
Released: 2023-03-31

This is the story of a puppy that touched hundreds of millions of people around the world....

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Saving Face

as Ma
Released: 2004-09-12

A Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret...

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Hemingway & Gellhorn

as Madame Chiang Kai Shek
Released: 2012-08-27

Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.

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The Blood of Heroes

as Kidda
Released: 1989-10-19

Set in a futuristic world where the only sport that has survived in a wasted society is the...

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1911

as Longyu
Released: 2011-09-23

China's first President Sun Yat-Sen and military commander Huang Xing lead the revolutionary...

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Heaven & Earth

as Mama
Released: 1993-12-25

In a small Vietnamese village torn apart by war, a young woman faces unimaginable horrors before...

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Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces

as Josie Packard
Released: 2014-07-16

Ninety minutes of deleted and alternate takes from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, assembled by...

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On Deadly Ground

as Masu
Released: 1994-02-18

Forrest Taft is an environmental agent who works for the Aegis Oil Company in Alaska. Aegis...

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Wedlock

as Noelle
Released: 1991-05-10

A male prison escapee heads for his hidden loot, electronically attached to a female prisoner.

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The Hunted

as Kirina
Released: 1995-02-24

Paul Racine, a high-powered American business executive in Japan, is catapulted into a maze of...

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Twin Peaks

as Jocelyn Packard
Released: 1989-09-03

An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more...

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Mao’s Last Dancer

as Niang
Released: 2009-10-01

At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates...

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Tigertail

as Yuan
Released: 2020-04-10

A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as...

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Sheep Without a Shepherd

as La Wen
Released: 2019-12-13

Li and his wife A Yu run a small business in Thailand and enjoy a happy home life with their two...

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Wild Side

as Virginia Chow
Released: 1996-07-17

A bank accountant who moonlights as a high-priced call girl becomes embroiled in the lives of a...

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Tai-Pan

as May-May
Released: 1986-11-07

The film begins following the British victory of the first Opium War and the seizure of Hong...

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The Sun Also Rises

as Dr. Lin
Released: 2007-09-20

A polyptych of interconnected stories in different time-zones, shifting between a Yunnan...

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White Frog

as Irene Young
Released: 2013-05-10

Story of a neglected teen with mild Asperger’s syndrome whose life is changed forever when...

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Lady of the Dynasty

as Consort Wu
Released: 2015-07-30

The tragic story of a Tang Dynasty imperial consort who was the favorite of the Emperor Xuanzong.

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Temptation of a Monk

as Princess Hong-e - Scarlet / Qing-shou - Violet
Released: 1993-09-15

Near the beginning of the Tang dynasty, in 7th century China, General Shi Yan-sheng is tricked...

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The Wedding Banquet

as uncredited
Released: 2025-04-18

Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend and out of time, Min makes a proposal: a green...

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Under the Light

as 何秀丽
Released: 2023-09-28

Su Jianming, the son of Deputy Mayor Zheng Gang of Jinjiang City, defies his father's counsel...

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24 City

as Xiao Hua
Released: 2008-09-27

As a decades-old state-run aeronautics munitions factory in downtown Chengdu, China is being...

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Double Xposure

as Dr. Hao
Released: 2012-09-29

When Song Qi stumbles upon her boyfriend's affair with her best friend, her life quickly starts...

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What's Cooking?

as Trinh Nguyen
Released: 2000-01-20

Four families of different ethnicities prepare for a potentially explosive Thanksgiving dinner.

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Cyber Wars

as Madame Ong
Released: 2004-09-15

In the near future in the Asian city-state Sintawan, everyone's identity is recorded in the vast...

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The House That Never Dies II

as 医生
Released: 2017-07-06

A cultural relic restorer discovers the skeletons of babies while working in an old mansion. The...

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Love in Disguise

as Joan
Released: 2010-08-12

Famous from an incredibly young age, DMH (Wang Lee Hom) has only ever known a celebrity pop star...

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The Night Stalker

as Mai Wing
Released: 1986-09-01

A tough homicide cop is assigned to track down a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes.

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The Little Flower

as 赵小花
Released: 1979-11-24

This movie is adapted from the novel Heroes in Tongbai. Xiao Hua, a sister of Zhao Yongsheng, is...

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Secrets from Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks

as uncredited
Released: 2007-10-30

A select group of key creative forces involved in the making of Twin Peaks reveals their take on...

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For Love or Money

as Xu's mother
Released: 2014-11-07

"For Love or Money" is based on a novel by Zhang Xiaoxian, which tells the moving story between...

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Jasmine Women

as Elder Mo
Released: 2004-06-13

Zhang Ziyi plays the youngest of three generations of women who leads lives in Shanghai. Joan...

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Precious Find

as Camilla Jones
Released: 1996-06-26

The year is 2049. 200 years after the great Californian goldrush. The new generation of gold...

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Golden Gate

as Marilyn Song
Released: 1994-01-28

A brash 22-year-old FBI agent trumps up charges of Communist spying against a Chinese...

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The Home Song Stories

as Rose Hong / Hong Meigui
Released: 2007-02-09

Tom, now in his 40s, begins to write the memoirs of his 1960s childhood, as the little boy whose...

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Purple Storm

as Shirley Kwan
Released: 1999-11-25

Khmer Rouge terrorist Kieron Chow and his unit arrive in Hong Kong for their latest mission....

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Passion Island

as Joanna
Released: 2012-09-06

The comedy of the year. This wannabe magical romance-drama is one of the most illogical films...

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The One

as 汤母·柯露思
Released: 2017-06-26

Funny scramble of an esoteric book of cooking between a guy without feeling, a tough girl, a...

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Critical Lifeline

as Xin Zhou
Released: 2016-05-06

Kai (Leehom Wang) awakens on his Shanghai houseboat––alone. His girlfriend Emma (Olivia Munn)...

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Strangers

as The Girl (Small Sounds and Tilting Shadows)
Released: 1992-05-15

Three provocative short stories. An American in Paris seduces a young man only to have the...

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Red Rose White Rose

as Wang Jiaohui
Released: 1994-12-09

Chronicles the love life of a man, Zhenbao. He has a steamy fling with the wife of a friend, the...

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The Leap Years

as Li-Ann (age 48)
Released: 2008-02-29

Li-ann, a dreamer, is a strong believer of the soul mate theory and rejects all men, especially...

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Turtle Beach

as Minou
Released: 1992-03-19

Reporter Judith Wilkes leaves her husband and two sons in Sydney and goes to Malaysia to cover...

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Goodbye My Hero

as uncredited
Released: 1986-07-24

Lindy Ng (Joan Chen) and her younger brother and sister eke out an impoverished life together,...

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Steel Justice

as Nicole Loa
Released: 1992-11-11

David Nash has lost his son and his will to live. But the boy appears in his dreams, as well as...

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Awakening

as Su Xiaomei
Released: 1981-01-01

A disillusioned and lonely young man working for a foreign trade company finds his enthusiasm...

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All God's Children Can Dance

as Evelyn
Released: 2008-11-06

In Korea Town Los Angeles, a young man, Kengo, believes he's the son of God - that's what his...

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Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart

as Young M.J. Player
Released: 1985-08-09

San Francisco's Richmond District. A widow welcomes the Chinese New Year. 62 years old, she...

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Hollywood Chinese

as Self
Released: 2007-03-18

Hollywood Chinese is a captivating look at cinema history through the lens of the Chinese...

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Sunflower

as Zhang Xiuqing
Released: 2005-09-10

Sunflower is the story of the Zhang family in Beijing father, mother and son across three...

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A Loyal Overseas Chinese Family

as 黄思华
Released: 1979-01-01

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Let It Be

as uncredited
Released: 2012-09-07

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Americanese

as Betty Nguyen
Released: 2006-03-15

Long after their breakup, Chinese American Raymond Ding and Amerasian Aurora Crane struggle to...

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In a Class of His Own

as Linda Ching
Released: 1999-10-17

Rich Donato is the high school janitor at an Oregon high school. He is looked up to by the kids...

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To Whom It May Concern: Ka Shen's Journey

as Herself
Released: 2010-01-01

The definitive and true-life story of Nancy Kwan who as a young Eurasian girl from Hong Kong...

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Color Me Love

as uncredited
Released: 2010-10-28

The plot is vaguely reminiscent of The Devil Wears Prada. The heroine is a new fashion editor...

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Youth

as Shen Yamei
Released: 1977-01-01

After her senses are surgically restored, a formerly deaf mute teenager enlists in the army and...

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Breathe

as uncredited
Released: 2021-10-13

With the outbreak of the new corona virus epidemic, Kelly, a 17-year-old Chinese girl, followed...

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Fringe

as Reiko
First aired: 2008-09-09

FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter...

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MacGyver

as Lin
First aired: 1985-09-29

He's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a...

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Twin Peaks

as Jocelyn Packard
First aired: 1990-04-08

The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin...

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Twin Peaks

as Josie Packard (archive footage)
First aired: 1990-04-08

The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin...

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Knight Rider

as Su-Lin
First aired: 1982-09-26

Michael Long, an undercover police officer, is shot while investigating a case and left for dead...

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Miami Vice

as May Ying
First aired: 1984-09-16

The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking...

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Homicide: Life on the Street

as uncredited
First aired: 1993-01-31

An American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore...

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Heroes of Sui and Tang Dynasties

as Empress Wenxian of Sui
First aired: 2012-12-03

Heroes emerged in large numbers during the tumultuous and short-lived Sui to early Tang dynasty...

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The Outer Limits

as Major Dara Talif
First aired: 1995-03-26

Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end,...

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鲁豫有约一日行

as uncredited
First aired: 2016-08-26

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Tales from the Crypt

as Connie
First aired: 1989-06-10

Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and...

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Golden Horse Awards

as Self
First aired: 1962-10-31

The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards (Chinese: 台北金馬影展; pinyin: Táiběi Jīnmǎ...

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Marco Polo

as Empress Chabi
First aired: 2014-12-12

An epic adventure that follows the early years of the famous explorer as he travels the exotic...

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Matt Houston

as uncredited
First aired: 1982-09-26

Matt Houston is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1982 to 1985. Created by...

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Wiseguy

as uncredited
First aired: 1987-09-16

Vinnie Terranova does time in a New Jersey penitentiary to set up his undercover role as an...

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Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

as Princess Jade (voice)
First aired: 1995-03-12

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child is an American anthology animated television series.

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The Oscars

as Self
First aired: 1953-03-19

An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The...

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A Murder at the End of the World

as Lu Mei
First aired: 2023-11-14

Gen Z amateur sleuth and tech-savvy hacker Darby Hart and eight other guests are invited by a...

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Thirteen Talks

as uncredited
First aired: 2016-05-17

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Journey to the West

as Guanyin
First aired: 2010-02-14

A Chinese television series adapted from the classical novel of the same title.

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The Heart

as Fang Zhuqing
First aired: 2023-10-07

Xiao Feng is the Deputy Chief Physician of the Cardiology Department at Dongli Hospital. He is...

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Nightmare Cafe

as Cafe Customer
First aired: 1992-01-29

Nightmare Cafe is a short-lived American telefantasy program which aired on NBC for an abridged...

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人到中年

as uncredited
First aired: 2009-08-29

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Nature Is Speaking

as Sky / Tiankong
First aired: 2015-08-12

Nature is given a voice to raise awareness that people need nature in order to survive.

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Serangoon Road

as Patricia Cheng
First aired: 2013-09-22

1964-65. Singapore is a city at a crossroads. Political and racial tensions are at fever pitch...

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Meng's Palace

as uncredited
First aired: 2013-12-27

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The Way to World Culture

as uncredited
First aired: 2020-04-22

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My Brilliant Masters

as uncredited
First aired: 2019-03-30

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