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Chang Chen
Chang Chen
	; at MTV Asia Awards 2006,Bangkok, Thailand
Chinese name	張震 (Traditional)
Chinese name	张震 (Simplified)
Born	14 October 1976 (age 33); Taipei, Taiwan
Occupation	Actor

This article is about the contemporary Taiwanese actor. For the Chen Dynasty prince, see Chen Chang.

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Chang.

Chang Chen (Chinese: 張震; pinyin: Zhāng Zhèn; born 14 October, 1976) is a Taiwanese actor, born in Taipei. His name is sometimes seen in the Western order (Chen Chang). He is the son of a Taiwanese actor Zhang Guozhu (張國柱) and brother of a Taiwanese actor, Zhang Han (張翰).

[edit] Career

Chang Chen started his film career at a very young age. He was then selected by a Taiwanese director Edward Yang to be the protagonist of his 4-hour critically acclaimed film A Brighter Summer Day (牯嶺街少年殺人事件). Coincidentally, his father, Zhang Guozhu, had also participated in this film and acted as his character's father.

In the Ang Lee film, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, he played Lo "Dark Cloud" / Luo Xiao Hu, the lover of Zhang Ziyi's character, Jen.

He also appeared in the Wong Kar-wai film 2046 as the boyfriend to Carina Lau's character Mimi / Lulu.

Chang also appeared opposite Shu Qi in Hou Hsiao Hsien's Three Times (2005), which was nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes and won Golden Horse accolades for Best Taiwanese film, among other awards. For that film he was also nominated for a "Best Actor" award at the 2005 Golden Horse Awards.

One of Chang's earliest roles was in Wong Kar-wai's film Happy Together.

He worked as a spokesperson for Lacoste and for Yamaha motor scooters. He has also recorded an album and a mini-album.

Chang was nominated for the 2006 Golden Horse Award for best actor for his role in The Go Master, a dramatization of the life of Wu Qingyuan. However, on November 17, 2006, Fortissimo, the distributor of the film, apparently under pressure from the People's Republic of China^{[citation needed]}, withdrew the film from the Taipei TV and Film Festival, making Chang no longer eligible to win the award.

[edit] Filmography

A Brighter Summer Day (1991) - Xiao Si'r
Mahjong (1996) - Hong Kong
Happy Together (1997) - Chang
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) - Lo 'Dark Cloud' / Luo Xiao Hu
Flyin' Dance (2000) - Choi
Betelnut Beauty (2001) - Feng
Chinese Odyssey 2002 (2002) - Emperor Zheng De
Six Days (2002) (DJ Shadow music video)
Colour of Sound (2003) - Jie
2046 (2004) - Mimi's Boyfriend
Eros (2004) - Zhang (segment "The Hand")
Three Times (2005) - Chen/Mr. Chang/Zhen
Silk (2006) - Tung
The Go Master (2006)
Breath (2007) - Jang Jin
Blood Brothers (2007) - Mark
Red Cliff - Sun Quan (2008)
Missing (2008)
Parking (2008)
Red Cliff: Part 2 (2009) - Sun Quan
The Grand Master (2010)
The Assassin (2010)

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