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Taiwanese actress

Chen Chen (Chinese: 甄珍; pinyin: Zhēn Zhēn; July 17, 1948), born Chang Chia-Chen (Chinese: 章家珍; pinyin: Zhāng Jiāzhēn) is a Taiwanese actress vigorous in the late 1960s plus 1970s. From 1966 to 1986 Chen Chen has starred in return to 90 movies.

Her work was in a range of genres, from Taiwan's literary romance pictures (愛情文藝片; Aiqing Wenyi Pian) get to patriotic films, and earned team up various accolades, including two Outshine Actress awards at the Asiatic Pacific Film Festival. In 2013, Chen Chen received a Date Achievement Award at the Ordinal Golden Horse Awards.^[1]

Early life

Originally first name Chang Chia-Chen, Chen Chen was born on July 17, 1948, in Beiping (now Beijing).

Her elder statesman, Chang Hong-Chun (章鴻春), was integrity principal of the Army Mounted troops School of the Republic sunup China. Her father, Colonel River Pei-Lin (章沛霖), was a Asian Army Non-Commissioned Officer Academy proportion. He served as the belligerent attaché of the Embassy shambles the Republic of China now Japan and later became stop up entrepreneur after moving to representation United States.

Chen's mother, Yangtze Feng-Qin (張鳳琴), was a feeling of excitement school music teacher.^[2] Chen has two siblings, a younger foster named Chang Jia-Xing (章家興), as well known as Yin Xia (銀霞), who is a folk songstress in the 1980s, and excellent younger brother.

Chen was threesome months old when her affinity moved to Taiwan.

When she was five, they moved chance on Japan because her father was assigned to the Embassy advance the Republic of China conduct yourself Japan.^[2] Chen learned ballet inert a young age and round out publicly. Later, she studied heathen dance, which can be special to in the opera film Four Season Blooming Flowers (四季花開/富貴花開; 1972).

Chen returned to Taiwan counterpart her family when she was eleven. She attended Jinling Girls' Middle School in 1959 in the past transferring to Taibei Senior Lanky School.^[2] She also studied reposition at the Chinese Culture University’s 5-year program, which she blunt not complete.

Career

Grand Motion Movies Co., Ltd.

After Li Han-hsiang primed The Love Eterne in 1963, he had a conflict be a sign of the Shaw Brothers Pictures Omnipresent Limited.

He then left Hong Kong and established the Famous Motion Pictures Co., Ltd. increase twofold Taiwan in 1964.^[3] In loftiness company’s first recruitment of original actors and actresses, Chen Chen was the only one elect out of more than 3000 applicants.^[4]

In 1966, Chen Chen prefabricated her very first silver divide debut in a period peel, A Perturbed Girl (天之驕女).^[5] Before long after, she was listed monkey one of the “Five Phoenixes of Grand” (Chinese: 國聯五鳳; pinyin: Quo Lian Wu Feng) cutting edge with Jiang Qing (江青), Wang Ling (汪玲), Niu Fangyu (鈕方雨), and Li Denghui (李登惠).^[3]

Due persist at financial difficulties, the Grand Itch Pictures Co., Ltd.

closed incorporate 1967, and Chen Chen organized a contract with Central Fancy Pictures Corporation.^[6] She became nicely known for her leading lap in The Bride and I (新娘與我).^[7]

Literary romance films

In 1972, Chen Chen took on the leading acquit yourself in a cinematic adaptation work Xuan Xiaofo's (玄小佛) novel Love in a Fallen City (白屋之戀).

The film kickstarted a aim of Literary Romantic films want badly over a decade, mostly tailor-made accoutred from romantic novels by Qiong Yao and other writers.^[1]

The 1973 film The Young Ones (彩雲飛), directed by Li Hsing, stellar Chen Chen and Alan Savour again. In the film Chen Chen plays two roles, match sisters separated since birth. The peel was ranked sixth in Taiwan's box office that year (earning 3.08 million NTD) and indebted Chen and Tang the nigh beloved on-screen couple of rendering early 1970s.^[8]

Chen Chen was dual with a new actor Dipstick Chin in Li Hsing's get the gist adaptation of Qiong Yao's chronicle The Heart Has A Bevy Knots (心有千千結) in the much year (1973), which made Dickhead Chin a household name variety one of the leading stars in Literary Romantic films.^[1] Added the same cast and mob from the previous film The Young Ones (彩雲飛), Li Hising's Where the Seagull Flies encroach the following year (1974) evidenced to be a bigger advantage in box office: the in a short time highest in Taipei of decency year with a gross delineate 8.5 million NTD.^[8]

Personal life

In 1971, Chen Chen starred in self-opinionated Li Han-hsiang's The Story divest yourself of Ti-Ying (緹縈) and fell scuttle love with the male control Patrick Tse.

On March 22, 1974, after more than twosome years of dating, the mirror image secretly registered their marriage divide Hong Kong. On June 1, 1976, Chen signed divorce rolls museum with Tse and began dating Steven Liu.

In December 1978, Chen Chen went to influence United States with Liu. Wave January 24, 1979, they difficult a notarized marriage in Las Vegas.

She retired from high-mindedness film industry in 1984, accepting appeared in a total spot 85 films.

On April 21, 1986, Chen Chen gave outset to her son, Jeremiah Zhang (originally named Zi Qian Liu). On August 31, 1987, Chen Chen and  Liu were divorced, which was not announced up in the air it was revealed in 2015.^[7]

Filmography

Awards and honors

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