Faye Yu

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Yu.
Faye Yu
Chinese name 俞飛鴻 (traditional)
Chinese name 俞飞鸿 (simplified)
Pinyin Yú Fēihóng (Mandarin)
Jyutping Jyu4 Fei1-hung4 (Cantonese)
Born (1971-01-15) 15 January 1971
Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Occupation actress, occasional director, producer, screenwriter and singer
Years active 1980–present

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 Wayne Wang's award-winning American films A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2007) and The Joy Luck Club (1992). In the Chinese-speaking world she is best known for starring in a number of popular Chinese television series.

Biography

Yu was a child actress, 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 Beijing Film Academy, China's most prestigious film school, she became the first enrolled student in school history to be cast in a Hollywood production when Wayne Wang 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 Los Angeles, 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 wuxia TV drama Legend of Dagger Li (小李飛刀), a Mainland-Taiwan co-production based on the popular Xiaoli Feidao novels.

Between 2005 and 2008 she only chose 1 acting project, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, 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 Beijing College Student Film Festival.

Filmography

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Films

Year Title Role Notes
1980 Bamboo (竹)
1982 The Brilliant Colored Ball (閃光的彩球)
1987 The Murderer and the Craven (兇手與懦夫) Chen Xiaofen
1987 Love in Beijing (愛在北京) Yun
1990 Factory Girls (特區打工妹) Chunhua
1993 Beijing Bastards (北京雜種) Mao Mao
1993 The Joy Luck Club Ying-Ying (young)
1994 Heaven and Earth (天地) Wu Jun
1995 Superfights Sally Wong
1999 The House (夢幻田園) Lei An'an
1999 Get Out Your Secret (說出你的秘密) cameo
2001 X-Roads (新十字街頭) Mei Qing
2001 Beijing Rocks (北京樂與路) Qianjie
2007 A Thousand Years of Good Prayers Yilan Shi
2009 Eternal Beloved (愛有來生) Mo Xiaoyu also writer, director, producer
Won—Best Directorial Debut, Beijing College Student Film Festival
2010 Color Me Love (愛出色)
2014 The Galaxy on Earth (天河)
2014 The Crossing (太平輪) Madame Gu
2016 The New Year's Eve of Old Lee

Television series

Year Title Role Notes
1998 Hand-in-Hand (牵手) Wang Chun Nominated—Outstanding Actress, Flying Apsaras Awards
1998 Lang Zi Da Qing Chai (浪子大欽差)
1999 Legend of Dagger Li (小李飛刀) Yang Yan
2000 Together Life or Death (生死同行) Shu Wenjing
2000 There Are Dreams in Life (人生有夢) Chen Luyi
2000 Luan Shi Tao Hua (亂世桃花) Liu Xu
2000 Ce Ma Xiao Xi Feng (策馬嘯西風) Gao Yuhan
2001 Third Master's Sword (三少爺的劍) Murong Qiudi
2002 The Night of Naval Port (軍港之夜) Xia Haiyun
2002 Chinese Soccer (中國足球) Lan Xin
2003 The Worry-free Princess (無憂公主) Pan Youdi
2003 The Grand Mansion 2 (大宅門II) Wu Yingyu
2004 The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty (大明天子) Xu Miaoyun
2004 Zheng Yi Ling Tian Xia (正義令天下) Zhong Ziying
2005 Xiang Qi Mi Ren (香氣迷人) Yu Su
2005 Feng Chui Yun Dong Xing Bu Dong (風吹雲動星不動) Yinxing
2005 I Love You, Goodbye (我愛你,再見) He Dan also producer, presenter, theme song singer
2011 Men (男人帮) Shanli
2014 May–December Love (大丈夫) Gu Xiaoyan
2014 The Great Southern Migration (大南遷) Madame Li
2014 The Merchants of Qing Dynasty (大清鹽商) Xiao Wenshu
TBA Eastern Battlefield (東方戰場) Soong Mei-ling
TBA The Identity of Father (父親的身份)

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