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Fan Bingbing

Acting Born Sep 16, 1981 Qingdao, Shandong Province, China 24 credits

Biography

Fan Bingbing (Chinese: 范冰冰, born 16 September 1981 in Yantai) is a Chinese actress. From 2013 to 2017, she was included as the highest-paid celebrity in the Forbes China Celebrity 100 list after ranking in the top 10 every year since 2006. She appeared on Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in 2017.

Fan's early work was in East Asian cinema and television, notably appearing in drama series My Fair Princess (1998–1999). Her breakthrough came with the film Cell Phone (2003) which was China's highest-grossing film of the year. She went on to star in several Chinese films, which include Lost in Beijing (2007), Buddha Mountain (2011) and Double Xposure (2012). For headlining the film I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016), Fan won the Silver Shell for Best Actress at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, as well as the Asian Film Award for Best Actress. Her foreign film roles include the French film Stretch (2011), the Korean film My Way (2011), the American superhero film X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) and the Hong Kong-Chinese-American film Skiptrace (2015).

In 2018, Fan disappeared for three months, reportedly during an investigation into her tax affairs by the Chinese authorities. She was reportedly fined a sum greater than her net worth. She subsequently appeared on social media, offering a public apology over tax evasion, for which she was fined more than CN¥883 million (US$127 million).

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Known for

Keep Running

2014

Trump Card

2016
Film

Ice Road: Vengeance

as Dhani Yangchen
Film

The 355

as Lin Mi Sheng

Full filmography

  • Keep Running (2014)
  • Trump Card (2016)
  • Super Brain (2014)
  • Chef Nic (2014)
  • Ice Road: Vengeance (2025) as Dhani Yangchen
  • My Fair Princess (1998) as 金锁
  • X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) as Blink
  • The Empress of China (2014) as Wu Meiniang
  • The Young Detective (2000) as 小蜻蜓
  • Lost in Beijing (2007) as Liu Pingguo
  • Insider (2022) as Ms. Lam
  • Insider (2022)
  • Diors Man (2012)
  • The Amazing Race China (2014)
  • Legend of Dagger Lee (1999) as 杏儿
  • The Proud Twins (2005) as 铁心兰
  • My Way (2011) as Shirai
  • The 355 (2022) as Lin Mi Sheng
  • 还珠格格2 as 金锁
  • The Legend and the Hero (2006) as 妲己
  • Master Ma (1997)
  • Jian Lin Tian Xia (2005) as 傲雪
  • The Twins Effect II (2004) as Red Vulture
  • Skiptrace (2016) as Samatha Bai