The Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress (中国电影金鸡奖最佳女主角) is the main category of Competition of

Golden Rooster Awards The Golden Rooster Awards () are film awards given in mainland China. The awards were originally given annually, beginning in 1981. The name of the award came from the year of the Rooster in 1981. Award recipients receive a statuette in the shap ...

, awarding actresses with outstanding performances in leading roles in

cinema of China The cinema of China is one of three distinct historical threads of Chinese-language cinema together with the cinema of Hong Kong and the cinema of Taiwan. Cinema was introduced in China in 1896 and the first Chinese film, '' Dingjun Mountai ...

Winners & nominees

Records

*3 wins:

Pan Hong Pan Hong (Chinese: 潘虹, born November 4, 1954) is a Chinese film actress. She is widely regarded as one of the best film stars of her generation. Early life Born Liu Ronghua (刘蓉华) on November 4, 1954, in Shanghai. During the Cultural ...

(including 1 tied win) *2 wins:

Gong Li Gong Li ( Chinese: 巩俐; born 31 December 1965) is a Chinese actress. She starred in three of the four Chinese-language films that were nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. Gong was born in Shenyang, Liaonin ...

Song Chunli Song Chunli (, born 17 February 1951) is a Chinese film and television actress. She won two Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress, a Hundred Flowers Award for Best Supporting Actress and two Feitian TV Awards. Her recent work is television serie ...

Xi Meijuan Xi Meijuan () is a Chinese film, television and stage actress. She is a member of the 12th National People's Congress The 12th National People's Congress was elected in national congressional conferences from October 2012 to February 2013 a ...

*5 nominations:

Xu Fan Xu Fan (, born 16 August 1967) is a Chinese actress and Asian Film Awards winner. She married film director Feng Xiaogang Feng Xiaogang (; born 18 March 1958 in Beijing) is a Chinese film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and politician ...

(0 win) *4 nominations:

Zhang Ziyi Zhang Ziyi (; ; born 9 February 1979) is a Chinese actress and model. She is regarded as one of the Four Dan Actresses of China. Her first major role was in '' The Road Home'' (1999). She later gained international recognition for her role in ...

(1 tied win) *3 nominations: Pan Hong,

(2 win),

Naren Hua Naren Hua (born 17 November 1962) is a Chinese film and television actress of Mongolian ethnicity. Name Her name is derived from the Mongolian word for sunflower ( – "sun", mn, links=no, script=Latn, naran; "flower", mn, links=no, sc ...

(1 win),

Yan Bingyan Yan Bingyan () is a Chinese film and television actress. She is the descendant of Yan Hui Yan Hui (–481 BC) was a Chinese philosopher. He was the favorite disciple of Confucius and one of the most revered figures of Confucianism. He is ve ...

(1 tied win) *Oldest winner:

Jin Yaqin Jin Yaqin (; 1925 – 23 June 2016), also known by her stage name Bai Wei (), was a Chinese actress. Jin won the 25th Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress, 18th Tokyo International Film Festival - Best Actress and 7th Chinese Film Media Award ...

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References

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