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Ziyi Zhang is a famous Chinese actress who was born in the beginning of February 1979 in Beijing. Zhang-is one of the most popular Chinese actresses of the modern times. She is performing in the movies of a variety of film directors. Such as: Cjon Mow, Ang Lee, Wong Carvay and Rob Marshall. When she was eleven years old she entered the Beijing Dances Academy. And by the time she was fifteen she entered the prestigious Central Academy of Drama in China. When she was nineteen years old she was offered a role in a movie directed by a famous Chinese producer Cjon Mow, in the movie “The road home” which was released in 1999 and which won on the ceremony of awards in the Berlin Film Festival. This movie made her a famous actress in China. After performing in the movie “Walking Tiger, Hiding Dragon” which was released in 2000 by a famous movie producer Ang Lee she became an actress of the world size. Her first work in the American cinema was in the movie “Rush Hour 2” in which she performed with such famous actors as Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker. By that time her English was very poor that is why Jackie Chan kept translating for her. Since that time she started learning English while studying it for five hours in a day, and that is why she started knowing it pretty well

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Here you can learn about the movies Ziyi Zhang acted in. You can see the names of the movies, their budget, years of release and the money gained from the screening of the certain movie. It is always interesting to know.

Movies & Videos	Budget	Year	Opening weekend	US box Office
Rush Hour 2 - Hu Li (as Zhang Ziyi)	$90M	2001	$67.4M	$226M
Memoirs of a Geisha - Sayuri	$85M	2005	$683K	$57M
TMNT - Karai (voice)	$34M	2007	$24.3M	$54.1M
Hero - Moon (as Zhang Ziyi)	$30M	2002	$18M	$53.6M
Horsemen - Kristin Spitz	$20M	2009
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Jen Yu (Mandarin version)/Jiao Long (English dubbed version) (as Zhang Ziyi)	$15M	2000	$663K	$128M
The Banquet - Empress Wan	$15M	2006
Forever Enthralled - Meng Xiaodong, Soundtrack (performer: "Ni Dong Wo De Ai")	$15M	2008
2046 - Bai Ling	$12M	2004	$113K	$1.44M
Sophie's Revenge - Sophie, Producer	$3M	2009
The Founding of a Republic - Gong Peng		2009
The Warrior - Princess Bu-yong (as Zhang Ziyi)		2001
House of Flying Daggers - Xiao Mei (as Zhang Ziyi), Soundtrack (performer: "Beauty Song (Jia Ren Qu)")		2004	$397K	$11M
Zu Warriors - Joy (as Zhang Ziyi)		2001
My Wife Is a Gangster 2 - The Triad Boss (as Zhang Ziyi)		2003
The Road Home - Zhao Di, Young (as Zhang Ziyi)		1999	$75.4K	$1.28M
Purple Butterfly - Cynthia/Ding Hui (as Zhang Ziyi)		2003	$6.97K	$16.1K
Jasmine Flower - Young Mo/young Li/young Hua		2004
Princess Raccoon - Tanukihime, Soundtrack (performer: "koi sumi tan'san' mizu", "itsu ka ouji sama to", "o suki na kami ha?", "omoi Shita ri masu na", "un'mei no wana")		2005
Tracing Shadow - Producer		2009