ACTOR · BORN 1981
Fan Bingbing
- Born
- 16 September 1981, Qingdao, Shandong Province, China
- Known for
- X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), The 355 (2022), Skiptrace (2016), The King's Daughter (2022)
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24 Facts From Fan Bingbing's Career
- #009
Fan Bingbing made her television debut in the series Powerful Woman in 1997.
- #010
While working on Powerful Woman, Fan Bingbing met lead actress Leanne Liu, who later recommended her for the television series My Fair Princess.
- #012
My Fair Princess became a runaway success and brought Fan Bingbing recognition across the Chinese-speaking world.
- #013
In 1997, on the eve of filming My Fair Princess, 16-year-old Fan Bingbing signed with the Taiwanese writer and showrunner Chiung Yao.
- #015
Fan Bingbing and her mother sought termination from the agency, which countersued for unilateral contract termination and sought CN¥1 million; through court mediation, Fan settled by paying CN¥200,000, reported to be her parents' life savings after they had just bought a house in Beijing.
- #016
Fan Bingbing was promised five television series over three years by Jia Yun, a family friend and founder of the Zhejiang Pi Ka Wang Group, a leather and furniture manufacturer that later became prominent in the entertainment business.
- #017
Jia Yun was a key supporter during the early stage of Fan Bingbing's career, but the television projects she made under his company did not gain traction.
- #018
Jia Yun, who had been tied to Fan Bingbing's early career, was placed on a wanted list in 2007 for "illegally absorbing public deposits" and turned himself in in 2015.
- #019
Fan Bingbing signed with manager Wang Jinghua in June 2000 after being introduced by co-actors Li Bingbing and Ren Quan during the 1999 filming of the TV series Qingchun Chudong, and followed Wang to Huayi Brothers the next year.
- #020
In 2002, Fan Bingbing founded the Huairou Fanbingbing Film & Television Art Training School along with a production and publicity company, both managed by her mother.
- #021
Fan Bingbing starred in Feng Xiaogang's 2003 film Cell Phone, which was China's highest-grossing film that year and won her the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress.
- #022
Fan Bingbing received a Best Actress nomination at the 12th Golden Bauhinia Awards for her role in A Battle of Wits (2006), and in 2006 Forbes China named her Star of the Year.
- #023
During Fan Bingbing's time at Huayi Brothers, she grew frustrated by the company's insufficient public-relations support and personal attention, especially after her role as a mistress in Cell Phone attracted increasingly negative and salacious publicity.
- #024
In 2004, Fan Bingbing faced her first public-relations crisis when Chongqing Business Daily published an article implying a "casting-couch" transaction; Huayi Brothers responded only days after she urged an immediate statement, and the resulting newspaper retraction came well past the news cycle.
- #025
Fan Bingbing stayed with Huayi in 2005 after her manager Wang Jinghua left the company to co-found Chengtian Entertainment, a move that reportedly prompted an industry-wide exodus of talent.
- #027
After Wang Jinghua's exit, Li Xue, the sister of Li Bingbing, became Huayi's head of talent management, while Fan Bingbing faced heightened internal competition as Zhou Xun joined the company.
- #028
Amid rumors that her contract negotiations had broken down, Fan Bingbing largely skipped promotion for The Matrimony (2007), her final project with Huayi, which was released around the time her contract expired.
- #029
Fan Bingbing left Huayi Brothers in February 2007 and founded her own Fan Bingbing Studio, an early example of the one-person agency model in Chinese entertainment.
- #030
At Fan Bingbing Studio, Mu Xiaoguang served as her manager and Yang Tianzhen led public relations.
- #031
Fan Bingbing appeared in eight films in 2007, among them Shinjuku Incident and Bodyguards and Assassins.
- #032
Fan Bingbing's role in Bodyguards and Assassins brought her a Best Supporting Actress nomination at the 29th Hong Kong Film Awards.
- #033
Fan Bingbing first worked with director Li Yu on Lost in Beijing (2007), which marked the start of a long-term artistic partnership and close friendship between them.
- #035
During Fan Bingbing's independent era, her team worked painstakingly to rebuild her relations with the media, turning her from one of China's most reviled celebrities into one of its most media-savvy figures.
- #036
Mu Xiaoguang financed two television dramas to repair Fan Bingbing's public image: Rouge Snow (2008), written by Yu Zheng, and Jintai-Pan (2009), adapted from Pai Hsien-yung's novel of the same name.
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