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Chinese name
  
余男 (simplified)

Role
  
Actress

Name
  
Yu Nan


Years active
  
1990s - present

Occupation
  
Film actress

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Born
  
September 5, 1978 (age 45) Dalian, China (
1978-09-05
)

Awards
  
Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress

Nominations
  
Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress

Movies
  
The Expendables 2, Wolf Warriors, Silent Witness, No Man's Land, Fureur

Similar People
  
Wang Quan'an, Wu Jing, Scott Adkins, Ning Hao, Sun Honglei

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Yu Nan (Chinese: 余男; born 5 September 1978) is a Chinese actress. Born in Dalian, Yu Nan studied at the Beijing Film Academy, where she graduated in 1999.

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Career

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Yu Nan started acting at the age of 4, playing role of a little girl with a handkerchief tied to her dress. Later, instead of following her family's advice to study foreign languages and get a university degree, Yu enrolled at the Beijing Film Academy in 1995.

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Her feature film debut in Lunar Eclipse (1999) by Wang Quan'an. Her feisty performance as a shy, retiring wife by day and a wild party animal by night won her Best Actress at the Deauville Asian Film Festival. The recognition caught the attention of French producers, who cast her in Rage (2003).

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She subsequently starred in three more films with Wang Quan'an. Jingzhe (2003) earned her Best Actress accolades at the Golden Rooster Award and Paris International Film Festival in 2003; Tuya's Marriage (2006), the Golden Bear winner at the 2007 Berlin International Film Festival, won her the Best Actress prize from the Chicago International Film Festival for her portrayal of a shepherdess who seeks a new husband after her first one falls ill; and Weaving Girl (2009), which won Jury Special Grand prix and the FIPRESCI prize from the 2009 Montreal World Film Festival.

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Yu Nan has also worked with other major Chinese directors, including Wang Xiaoshuai in In Love We Trust (2008), which won the Best Screenplay Silver Bear prize at the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival, Lee Yun-chan's in My DNA Says I Love You and Ning Hao, in his Chinese Western film, No Man's Land (2013).

Helped in part by her fluency in Mandarin, French, and English, Yu Nan has played in several international productions, such as the Canadian-Chinese film Diamond Dogs (2007), and the Hollywood films Speed Racer (2008) and The Expendables 2 (2012).

Known for her success in art house films, Yu also starred in commercial films. In Deadly Delicious (2008), she plays a frustrated wife who discovers her husband's extramarital affair and wants him to pay a price for his infidelity; and also starred in Design of Death (2012), playing a mute widow. Yu's most notable work in recent years include Silent Witness (2013) and Wolf Warriors (2015).

Festivals

Yu Nan has served as a jury member at several international film festivals:

  • Pusan International Film Festival in 2007
  • Chicago International Film Festival in 2008
  • Golden Rooster Awards in 2009
  • Shanghai International Film Festival in 2009
  • Berlin International Film Festival in 2010
  • Shanghai International Film Festival in 2013
  • Filmography

    Actress
    2023
    Li gong dong bei jiu shi (TV Series)
    2021
    The EOD Squad as
    Xiao Ling
    2020
    Lord of Shanghai II as
    Cassia Xiao Yuegui
    2020
    Fox Hunting as
    Ambassador He
    2019
    The Longest Shot
    2018
    The Trading Floor (TV Mini Series) as
    Claudia Fong
    2018
    The Trough as
    Jackie
    2017
    Explosion as
    Xiao Hong
    2017
    Wolf Warrior 2 as
    Long Xiaoyun
    2017
    Yese liao ren
    2016
    Blood of Youth as
    Han Yun
    2016
    Lord of Shanghai as
    Cassia
    2016
    Pleasure. Love.
    2015
    Lovers & Movies
    2015
    Wolf Warrior as
    Long Xiaoyun
    2014
    The Taking of Tiger Mountain as
    Ma Qinglian
    2014
    Beijing Love Story as
    Zhang Lei
    2013
    No Man's Land as
    Dancer / Li Yuxin
    2013
    Angel Warriors as
    Bai Xue
    2013
    Cold Harbour as
    Soong Mei (as Yu Nan)
    2013
    Silent Witness as
    Zhou Li
    2013
    Feed Me
    2012
    The Expendables 2 as
    Maggie
    2012
    Beloved as
    Lu Xueni
    2012
    Design of Death as
    Widow Ma
    2011
    Yu shi shang tong ju as
    Qi Xi
    2010
    Wind Blast as
    A Nuo
    2009
    Fang zhi gu niang as
    Li Li
    2009
    Kung Fu Master as
    Female director
    2008
    Speed Racer as
    Horuko Togokahn
    2008
    Shuang shi ji as
    Li Chunyan
    2008
    Zuo you as
    Dong Fan
    2007
    Diamond Dogs as
    Anika
    2007
    Ji yin jue ding wo ai ni as
    Marlene
    2006
    Tuya de hun shi as
    Tuya
    2004
    Jing zhe as
    Guan Ermei
    2003
    Fureur as
    Chinh
    1999
    Lunar Eclipse as
    Ya Nan

    References

    Yu Nan Wikipedia