Joan Chen

ACTRESS, DIRECTOR, PRODUCER

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29th May 2022 | FlixCatalog Staff

Born into a family of doctors and educated in China at the Shanghai Film Academy and the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Languages, Joan Chen was discovered by veteran Chinese director Jin Xie while observing a filming with a school group. Her performance in Xiao hua (1979) (A.K.A. "The Little Flower") won China's Best Actress award, and resulted in the Chinese press dubbing her "The Elizabeth Taylor of China" for having achieved top stardom while still in her teen years. She came to the U.S. to attend college in 1981, first at the State University of New York at New Paltz, later at California State University at Northridge. She a succession of small parts in movies and T.V., with her first break coming in 1986 when, in true Hollywood legend, producer Dino De Laurentiis noticed her in the parking lot of Lorimar Studios and cast her in Tai-Pan (1986). The film bombed, but it led to her being cast as the ill-fated Empress in Bernardo Bertolucci's Der letzte Kaiser (1987), which won critical acclaim. This, and her role as enigmatic mill owner Josie Packard in the cult TV series Das Geheimnis von Twin Peaks (1990), are her best-known roles in Europe and North America. However, Hollywood's practice of type-casting East Asians has led to a dearth of major roles for Chen since then, and in recent roles, she has often been cast as a villainess.After taking a few years off to start a family, Joan returned to the screen in important supporting roles playing women in early middle age, such as the mother of a principle adult character. As a result, her career is flourishing again on both sides of the Pacific. Her two directing efforts were well-received critically, and in a 2008 interview she revealed she planned to direct again but was putting that off until her daughters were grown, since directing took her away from them too much, whereas acting could be done on a part-time basis. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Don Marion <d-mari@maroon.tc.umn.edu>

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Joan Chen’s flixes, followed by Vudu compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Joan Chen on average has worked on 2 movies per year from 1977 to 2021. See the full graphs of the number of Joan Chen movies released per year from 2007 till 2021.

Top Genres

Joan Chen works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Romance Genre flixes. 42% of Joan Chen movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Joan Chen worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Joan Chen has worked on is 6.3.

6.3 / 10

Joan Chen's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Action,Adventure,Drama
Marco Polo (2014)

In a world replete with greed, betrayal, sexual intrigue and rivalry, "Marco Polo" is based on the famed explorer's adventures in Kublai Khan's court in 13th century Mongolia.

8/1060 min

Available in 9 platform(s).

Biography,Drama,History
The Last Emperor (1987)

The story of the final Emperor of China.

7.7/10163 min

Available in 6 platform(s).

Drama,History,Romance
Lust, Caution (2007)

During World War II era, a young woman, Wang Jiazhi, gets swept up in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue with a powerful political figure, Mr. Yee.

7.5/10157 min

Available in 8 platform(s).

Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year ...

7.5/1099 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Comedy,Drama,Romance
Saving Face (2004)

A Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations.

7.4/1091 min

Available in 11 platform(s).

Documentary,Drama
24 City (2008)

When a factory is being torn down in Chengdu, China, workers reflect on their experiences and the importance of the factory in their lives.

7.1/10112 min

Available in 5 platform(s).

Comedy,Drama,Romance
What's Cooking? (2000)

Four families in LA of different ethnicity (Latino, Asian/Vietnamese, African and Jewish) gather together for Thanksgiving dinner.

6.9/10109 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

Desperate measures are taken by a man who tries to save his family from the dark side of the law, after they commit an unexpected crime.

6.8/10112 min

Available in 11 platform(s).