Ziyi Zhang - Smartasses Top 100 Sexiest Women
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Ziyi Zhang Bio
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Ziyi Zhang 章子怡
Date of Birth: February 9, 1979
Horoscope Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Beijing, China
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Ziyi Zhang 章子怡 (born February 9, 1979) is a Chinese film actress. Zhang has worked with renowned directors such as Zhang Yimou, Ang Lee and Rob Marshall and is best known for her major roles in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, House of Flying Daggers, Hero, and Memoirs of a Geisha. Zhang Ziyi was born and raised in Beijing, China. Zhang began studying dance when she was 8 years old.
She joined the Beijing Dance Academy by her parents’ suggestion at the age of 11. While at this boarding school, she noticed how mean the other girls were to each other while competing for status amongst the teachers. Zhang disliked the attitudes of her peers and teachers so much that, on one occasion, she ran away from the school. At the age of 15, Zhang won the national youth dance championship and began appearing in television commercials in Hong Kong. In 1996, Zhang entered China’s prestigious Central Academy of Drama at the age of 17.
At the age of 19, Zhang was offered her first role in Zhang Yimou’s The Road Home, which won the Silver Bear award in the 1999 Berlin Film Festival. She rose to further fame in 2000 with her role as Jen in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, for which she won several awards. Zhang’s first appearance in an American movie was in Rush Hour 2, but because she did not speak English at the time, Jackie Chan had to interpret everything the director said to her. In 2002 Zhang then appeared in Hero, also directed by Zhang Yimou. The film was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe award.
Zhang has also been known to sing, and was featured on the House of Flying Daggers soundtrack with her own musical rendition of the ancient Chinese poem, Jia Rén Qu. The song was also featured in two scenes in the film. On 27 June 2005, it was announced that Zhang had accepted an invitation to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, placing her among the ranks of those able to vote on the Academy Awards. Zhang is the face of Maybelline, Garnier, Omega Watches and Shangri-la Hotel and Resort Group. She is also a Global Ambassador for the Special Olympics and a spokesperson for “Care for Children,” a foster-home program in China. -Wikipedia
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Why we think she’s hot:
Although she has starred in a handful of kung-fu flicks, many of them being under one of our favorite directors Zhang Ymou, Zhang Ziyi has never actually been trained as a martial artist. Rather, it’s her extensive childhood schooling in dance that allows Ziyi to move so fluently in each of her fighting films. According to her however, she’s not exactly fond of those gigs.” I don’t like kick-ass stereotypical roles. I already turn a lot down, even when they promise me a lot of money. I really want to do something in Europe. With a small movie, it can be an interesting challenge. But I have to get the right project. I don’t think it’s so important to go to Hollywood. All that trash that comes out of there! I don’t want to do that.” For us, as a group that’s not so fond of typical, Hollywood ‘factory-made-films’ ourselves, we find that hella hot. But it’s not just her attitude that we dig. For us, the appeal of Ziyi has always been her facial expressions, and her ability to switch from one drastic emotion to another, with only the smallest of muscle movements or twinkles in the eye. Though, all things being equal, perhaps it was a Hollywood trash film that said it best, when Rush Hour 2 decided to name her character “Hu Li”, which, when translated from Mandarin Chinese, means “Fox”.
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