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 Revolution, her parents were forced to divorce. She then changed her surname "Liu" (her father's) to Pan (her mother's) and lived with her mother, who was born in 1922. On April 19, 1968, her father killed himself because of persecution. Two days later, she came to the crematorium alone and took her father's urn back to her father's native place, Harbin, by taking the train.

Career

After Pan graduated from the Shanghai Theatre Academy, she performed several supporting roles in films. In 1982, she shot to fame as a leading actress for
At the Middle Age
The movie is also known as "Ren Dao Zhong Ninan"''. She was awarded a Hundred Flowers Award, Changchun Film Festival Golden Deer, Shanghai Film Critics Award. As the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress three-time winner, Pan received a Golden Rooster Special Award in 1994. Chinese critics named her "The last noble in the Chinese film industry". She is the vice-chairman of the China Film Association and the China Film Performance Academic Society.

Personal life

It is said that Pan Hong's paternal grandfather is Russian.
In 1978, 24-year-old Pan married Mi Jiashan (米家山) who is seven years older (born in May 1947). Mi, at that time, was a common worker in Shanghai Filmmaking Factory. Mi's hometown is in Chengdu, Sichuan. After marriage, most of time Pan lived in Chengdu. The couple divorced in 1986. After divorce, Pan returned to Shanghai and lived with her mother temporarily.
At the New Year's Day in 1989, Pan Hong stayed in New York with the group who was shooting a film called ''The Last Aristocrat''. The year before that, she was photographed by an American reporter and became the cover of Times in September 12th, 1988. She was the second Chinese (the first being Deng Xiaoping) and the first Chinese actress to become the cover of the magazine. However, there's no cover picture in the Times' official website.
On February 8, 1994, Pan Hong formally moved to the house she bought with her loan.
In January, 1995, Pan Hong published her diaries written throughout 1994.
Around 2003, she converted herself to Buddhism and became a vegetarian.
To date, Pan has never remarried and has no children.潘虹坦言：没有子女很遗憾 真爱有过一次就够了
Retrieved in 2016-09-03

Selected filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

Dianying.com-Pan Hong
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1954 births
Living people
Actresses from Shanghai
Chinese film actresses
Chinese television actresses
Shanghai Theatre Academy alumni
20th-century Chinese actresses
21st-century Chinese actresses