Fan Bingbing

Fan Bingbing (Chinese: 范冰冰 , born 16 September 1981) is a Chinese actress. After gaining recognition for the costume drama My Fair Princess (1998–1999), Fan's breakthrough came with Feng Xiaogang's blockbuster Cell Phone (2003), which won her the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress. She followed with popular TV series such as The Proud Twins (2004), Eight Heroes (2006), and The Empress of China (2014) while collaborating with Li Yu on art-house films such as Lost in Beijing (2007), Buddha Mountain (2011), and Double Xposure (2012). She reunited with Feng in I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016), which won her the Silver Shell for Best Actress and the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress. Her international credits include My Way (2011), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), Skiptrace (2016) and The 355 (2022). From 2013 to 2017, she was 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.In 2018, Fan was involved in a tax evasion scandal, resulting in a CN¥883 million (US$127 million ) tax liability and fine, as well as her blacklisting in mainland China. She returned to acting with a cameo in South Korean TV show Insider (2022), followed by a starring role in Hong Kong film Green Night (2023).