Zhang Ziyi () (innate February 9, 1979) is a Chinese actress. a characters of her title may exist as literally translated when ZhÄ?ng (a last name, does'nt to be confused using the supplementary green ZhÄ?ng å¼ ), ZÇ? (tike), & Yí (happiness).

Innate within Beijing in the People's Republic of China, Zhang joined the Beijing Dance Academy at the age of 11, and at 15 she entered China's prestigious Central Academy of Drama. At a age of Xix, she was offered her 1st role inside globe celebrated director Zhang Yimou's The Road Home, which won the Silver Bear award in the 2000 Berlin Film Festival.

Zhang farther rose to fame due to her role in the phenomenally successful Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, for which she won the Independent Spirit's Better Supporting Actress Award & a Toronto Film Critics' Better Supporting Actress Award. She went in to produce Hero which was a immense profits in the English-speaking world & an Oscar & the Golden World challenger. Her next moving-picture show was a avant-garde drama Purple Butterfly which competed at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. She went back to the martial arts genre by owning House of Flying Daggers, which earned her a Better Actress nomination from either a British Academy of Film and Television Arts. For her next modern-contemporary drama 2046, directed by Wong Kar-wai, starring many of Asia's right-known actresses, Zhang won a Hong Kong Film Critics' Better Actress Award & a Hong Kong Film Academy's Better Actress Award.

Showing her capricious musical comedy tap-dancing side, Zhang starred around Princess Raccoon directed by 82-year-old Japanese legend Seijun Suzuki who was honored at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.

She plays a leading role of Sayuri in the adaptation of the international best seller Memoirs Of A Geisha, with Michelle Yeoh, Gong Li, and Ken Watanabe, produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by Rob Marshall. A motion picture is planned for release within December 2005.

Filmography

Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) Princess Raccoon (2005) Jasmine Women (2004) House of Flying Daggers (2004) 2046 (2004) Purple Butterfly (2003) My Wife Is A Gangster 2 (2003) Hero (2002) Musa (2001) Rush Hour 2 (2001) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) The Road Home (1999) Touching Starlight (1996)