Zhang Ziyi (Chinese: 章子怡; born 9 February 1979) is a Chinese actress. Her first major role was in The Road Home (1999). She later achieved fame for her role in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), which was nominated for 10 Academy Awards. In the West, Zhang is best known for her appearances in Rush Hour 2 (2001), Hero (2002), 2046 (2004) and House of Flying Daggers (2004). Her most critically acclaimed works are Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), which earned her nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role; and The Grandmaster (2013), for which she won 12 different Best Actress awards to become the most awarded actress for a single film.

Filmography

• 首届CMG中国电影盛典 — 年度剧情电影女演员
• 2025She's Got No Name — Zhan Zhou
• 进步班 — 客座导师
• 2023"Moon rises in the Bay Area" 2023 Greater Bay Area Film and Music Gala
• 2023The Volunteers: To the War — Tang Sheng
• Three Youths
• 2021My Country, My Parents — Yu Kaiying (segment "Poetry"), Director, Executive Producer
• The Rebel Princess — Wang Xuan
• Everybody Stand By
• 2019Godzilla: King of the Monsters — Dr. Ilene Chen / Dr. Ling
• 2019The Climbers — Xu Ying
• 2018Forever Young — Wang Minjia
• The 40th Anniversary of Chinese Film Since China's Reform and Opening-Up
• The Birth of an Actor
• 2018The Cloverfield Paradox — Tam
• Viva La Romance
• The Birth of an Actor
• 2016Run for Love — Su Leqi
• 2016The Wasted Times — Xiao Liu
• Trump Card
• 2015Oh My God! — Auntie, Producer
• 2015The Crossing II — Yu Zhen
• 2015Where's the Dragon? — Phoenix (voice)
• Super Brain
• 2014The Crossing I — Yu Zhen
• 2013Better and Better — Zhang Ziyi
• 2013My Lucky Star — Sophie, Producer
• 2013The Grandmaster — Gong Er
• 2012Dangerous Liaisons — Du Fenyu
• 2012The Road to "The Grandmaster"
• 2011Love for Life — Shang Qinqin
• 2009Horsemen — Kristen
• 2009Sophie's Revenge — Sophie, Producer
• 2009The Founding of a Republic — Gong Peng
• 2008Forever Enthralled — Meng Xiaodong
• 2007Impossible Mission: Golden Rooster — Zhang Ziyi
• 2007TMNT — Karai (voice)
• 2006The Banquet — Empress Wan
• 2005Memoirs of a Geisha — Sayuri
• 2005Princess Raccoon — Tanukihime
• 20042046 — Bai Ling
• 2004House of Flying Daggers — Xiao Mei
• 2004Jasmine Women — Young Mo
• 2003My Wife is a Gangster 2 — The Triad Boss
• 2003Purple Butterfly — Cynthia / Ding Hui
• 2002Hero — Moon
• 2001Rush Hour 2 — Hu Li
• 2001The Warrior — Princess Bu-yong
• 2001Zu Warriors — Joy
• 2000Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon — Jen
• 1999The Road Home — Young Zhao Di
• 1996Touching Starlight — Chen Wei
• Gold Mountain
• Making of 2046
• She's Got No Name: Part Two — Zhan Zhou
• Undercurrent
• 游过海岸一百米 — Director

Appearances as themselves (12)

• 2021One-Tenth of a Millimeter Apart — Self (archive footage)
• 2017All About Faces — Herself
• 2017Existence — Herself
• 2017Most of the Time — Self
• 2016Dragon Girls! — Herself
• 2016Faye's Moments Live 2016 — Self
• 2010Together — Herself
• 2004'Hero' Defined: A Look at the Epic Masterpiece — Self
• 2000The Making of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' — Self
• Golden Horse Awards — Self
• The Oscars — Self
• Today — Self