Yu Feihong (born 1971), also known as Faye Yu, is a Chinese actress and an occasional film director and producer, best known in the west for

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's award-winning American films ''

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers ''A Thousand Years of Good Prayers'' is a 2007 American Drama (film and television), drama film directed by Wayne Wang and starring Faye Yu, Henry O, Vida Ghahremani and Pasha D. Lychnikoff. It is adapted from the short story by Yiyun Li and sho ...

'' (2007) and '' The Joy Luck Club'' (1992). In the Chinese-speaking world she is best known for starring in a number of popular

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Biography

Yu was a

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, having a lead role in the film ''The Murderer and the Craven'' (凶手与懦夫) when she was only 16. In 1991, while studying at the

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, China's most prestigious film school, she became the first enrolled student in school history to be cast in a Hollywood production when

selected her for his film '' The Joy Luck Club''. It took 3 months for her to receive an American visa, but Wang stuck with her. She returned to Beijing after filming, taught at the school for a while upon graduation, later studying in

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, before returning to China in 1998 to star in the television drama ''Hand-in-Hand'' (牵手) which became a huge domestic hit. She followed up on its success with Yuen Woo-ping's 1999

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TV drama ''Legend of Dagger Li'' (小李飛刀), a

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co-production based on the popular ''

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'' novels. Between 2005 and 2008 she only chose 1 acting project, ''

'', which briefly brought her back to the U.S. and reunited her with Wang. She spent most of her years then working on ''Eternal Beloved'' (愛有來生), her directorial debut that she also wrote (based on a novel), starred in, and produced. The film crashed in the Chinese box office, but won Yu the Best Directorial Debut Award at the

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Filmography

Film

TV Series

References

Yu Feihong juggles jobs in new filmWayne Wang & Faye Yu Interviews

External links

Yufeihong.com (Yu Feihong's fan club)

Yufeihong.blogspot.com
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Yu, Feihong 1971 births Living people Chinese film actresses Chinese television actresses 20th-century Chinese actresses Chinese child actresses 21st-century Chinese actresses Actresses from Hangzhou Chinese film directors Film directors from Zhejiang Chinese women film directors