Jiang Wen

Jiang Wen
姜文
Jiang at the Deauville Asian Film Festival in France in 2008
Born
Jiang Xiaojun[1]

(1963-01-05) 5 January 1963 (age 61)
Tangshan, Hebei, China
Alma materCentral Academy of Drama
Occupation(s)Actor, screenwriter, film director
Years active1986–present
Spouses
Sandrine Chenivesse
(m. 1997⁠–⁠2005)
(m. 2005)
Children3
Parent(s)Jiang Hongqi (father)
Gao Yang (mother)
RelativesJiang Wu (brother)
Awards
Hong Kong Film AwardsBest Supporting Actor
1997 The Soong Sisters

Hong Kong Film Critics Society AwardsBest Director
2011 Let the Bullets Fly
Best Screenplay
2011 Let the Bullets Fly

Golden Horse AwardsBest Director
1996 In the Heat of the Sun
Best Adapted Screenplay
1996 In the Heat of the Sun
2011 Let the Bullets Fly
Best Film Editing
2007 The Sun Also Rises

Hundred Flowers AwardsBest Actor
1986 Hibiscus Town
1989 A Woman for two

Chinese name
Chinese姜文
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinJiāng Wén
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese姜小軍
Simplified Chinese姜小军
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinJiāng Xiǎojūn
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpinggeung1 man4

Jiang Wen (born 5 January 1963) is a Chinese actor, screenwriter, and director. As a director, he is sometimes grouped with the "Sixth Generation" that emerged in the 1990s.[2] Jiang is also well known internationally as an actor, having starred with Gong Li in Zhang Yimou's debut film Red Sorghum (1986), and more recently as Baze Malbus in the Star Wars film Rogue One (2016). He is the older brother of fellow actor Jiang Wu.

  1. ^ "姜文,一个无法被取代的男人". Tencent News. 2020-02-09. Archived from the original on 2021-05-02. Retrieved 2020-08-13.
  2. ^ Xu, Gary G. (2007). Sinascape: Contemporary Chinese Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield, p. 47. ISBN 0-7425-5450-3. Google Book Search. Retrieved 2008-09-10