Joan Chong Chen (born April 26, 1961) is a Chinese American actress, film director, screenwriter and film producer. She became famous in China for her performance in the 1979 film Little Flower and came to international attention for her performance in the 1987 Academy Award-winning film The Last Emperor. She is also known for her roles in Twin Peaks, Red Rose White Rose, Saving Face and The Home Song Stories, and for directing the feature film Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl.

Filmography

• 2026Montreal, My Beautiful — Feng Xia
• 2026No Other Love — Ms. Miao
• 2026Remarkably Bright Creatures — Janice Kim
• 2026The Evil Inside — Ho Jen-Jen / "Golden Phoenix"
• 2025Oh. What. Fun. — Jeanne Wang-Wasserman
• Slow Conversation
• 2025The Wedding Banquet — May Chen
• 2024Dìdi (弟弟) — Chungsing Wang, Executive Producer
• 2024The Making of Dìdi
• 2024The Truck — Executive Producer
• A Murder at the End of the World — Lu Mei
• 2023Hachiko — Li Jiazhen
• 2023Under the Light — He Xiuli
• 2022Hero — Screenplay, Director
• 2022Logic Paralyzes the Heart — Cyborg #1
• 2021Breathe — Producer
• 2020Ava — Toni
• 2020The Iron Hammer — Director
• The Way to World Culture
• 2020Tigertail — Yuan
• My Brilliant Masters
• 2019Sheep Without a Shepherd — La Wen
• The 40th Anniversary of Chinese Film Since China's Reform and Opening-Up
• 2017The House That Never Dies II — 医生
• 2017The One — 汤母·柯露思
• 2017Wonderland — Susan
• Thirteen Talks
• 鲁豫有约一日行
• 2015Cairo Declaration
• 2015Lady of the Dynasty — Consort Wu
• Nature Is Speaking — Sky / Tiankong
• 2015You Are My Sunshine
• 2015旗
• 2014For Love or Money — Xu's mother
• Marco Polo — Empress Chabi
• 2014Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces — Josie Packard
• Meng's Palace
• Serangoon Road — Patricia Cheng
• 2013White Frog — Irene Young
• 2012Double Xposure — Dr. Hao
• 2012Hemingway & Gellhorn — Madame Chiang Kai Shek
• Heroes of Sui and Tang Dynasties — Empress Wenxian of Sui
• 2012Let It Be
• 2012Passion Island — Joanna
• 2012Shanghai Strangers — Director, Writer
• 20111911 — Longyu
• 2010Color Me Love
• Journey to the West — Guanyin
• 2010Love in Disguise — Joan
• 2009Mao’s Last Dancer — Niang
• 人到中年
• 200824 City — Xiao Hua
• 2008All God's Children Can Dance — Evelyn
• Fringe — Reiko
• 2008Shi Qi
• 2008The Leap Years — Li-Ann (age 48)
• 2007Lust, Caution — Mrs. Yee
• 2007The Home Song Stories — Rose Hong / Hong Meigui
• 2007The Sun Also Rises — Dr. Lin
• 2006Americanese — Betty Nguyen
• 2005Sunflower — Zhang Xiuqing
• 2004Cyber Wars — Madame Ong
• 2004Jasmine Women — Elder Mo
• 2004Saving Face — Ma
• 2000Autumn in New York — Director
• 2000What's Cooking? — Trinh Nguyen
• 1999In a Class of His Own — Linda Ching
• 1999Purple Storm — Shirley Kwan
• 1998Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl — Director, Producer, Executive Producer, Screenplay
• 1996Precious Find — Camilla Jones
• 1996Wild Side — Virginia Chow
• Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child — Princess Jade (voice)
• 1995Judge Dredd — Dr. Ilsa Hayden
• 1995The Hunted — Kirina
• The Outer Limits — Major Dara Talif
• 1994Golden Gate — Marilyn Song
• 1994On Deadly Ground — Masu
• 1994Red Rose White Rose — Wang Jiaohui
• 1993Heaven & Earth — Mama
• Homicide: Life on the Street — Elizabeth Wu
• 1993Temptation of a Monk — Princess Hong-e - Scarlet / Qing-shou - Violet
• Children of the Dragon — Jin-Juan
• Nightmare Cafe — Cafe Customer
• 1992Shadow of a Stranger — Vanessa
• 1992Steel Justice — Nicole Loa
• 1992Strangers — The Girl (Small Sounds and Tilting Shadows)
• 1992Turtle Beach — Minou
• 1991Wedlock — Noelle
• Twin Peaks — Jocelyn Packard, Josie Packard (archive footage)
• Tales from the Crypt — Connie
• 1989The Blood of Heroes — Kidda
• 1989Twin Peaks — Jocelyn Packard
• 1988Dim Sum Take-Out
• 1987The Last Emperor — Wan Jung
• 1987The Night Stalker — Mai Wing
• Wiseguy
• 1986Goodbye My Hero
• 1986Tai-Pan — May-May
• 1985Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart — Young M.J. Player
• MacGyver — Lin
• Miami Vice — May Ying
• American Playhouse — Mei Lai, Young Mahjong Player, Marilyn Song
• Knight Rider — Su-Lin
• Matt Houston
• 1982Peking Encounter — GUIDE
• 1981Awakening — Su Xiaomei
• 1979A Loyal Overseas Chinese Family — 黄思华
• 1979The Little Flower — 赵小花
• 1977Youth — Shen Yamei
• English — Director
• Flayer
• Tonight at Noon — Joan

Appearances as themselves (6)

• 2010To Whom It May Concern: Ka Shen's Journey — Herself
• 2007Hollywood Chinese — Self
• 2007Secrets from Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks — Self
• 1995Stallone's Law: The Making of 'Judge Dredd' — Herself
• Golden Horse Awards — Self
• The Oscars — Self