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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9 Facts About Fan Bingbing's Life and Family
- #001
Fan Bingbing was born in the coastal city of Qingdao and moved to Yantai at age six with her parents.
- #002
Fan Bingbing's father, Fan Tao, was a former naval serviceman assigned to the Yantai Radio Factory after demobilization, and her mother is Zhang Chuanmei, born Zhang Meili. After Zhang's layoff, Fan resigned and the couple started a clothing business together.
- #003
Fan Bingbing has a younger brother, Fan Chengcheng, born nineteen years after her in 2000; her parents were fined for violating China's one-child policy at his birth. He was a member of the boy groups Nine Percent and NEXT before pursuing a solo career mainly as an actor.
- #004
Fan Bingbing grew up watching her father perform at local competitions and cultural events, and he sometimes sang in bars to add to the family's income.
- #005
Fan Bingbing's mother had been passionate about dance since childhood and was a former member of the Red Guards propaganda troupe; she oversaw Fan's artistic education and arranged piano and flute lessons for her.
- #006
During middle school, Fan Bingbing lived for several years with her flute teacher Zhang Chunqian, a close friend of her mother from their Red Guards days, while her parents ran a clothing business; Zhang directed the high school wind orchestra and made Fan its conductor.
- #007
As a young girl, Fan Bingbing was captivated by the Taiwanese television drama The Empress of the Dynasty, starring Angela Pan as Wu Zetian, which inspired her early dream of being like the star, if not becoming an actress.
- #008
After returning to Yantai, Fan Bingbing learned about the Shanghai Xie Jin-Hengtong School of Arts in a local newspaper; unable to advance to her senior year for the college entrance exam because of the accident and unwilling to repeat her second year, she applied to the performance school.
- #014
After Fan Bingbing gained fame through the costume drama, her parents shut their clothing business and relocated to Beijing, where they served as her first agents.
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