"Awards are not the only..." - Fan Bingbing

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June 27, 2016 5:24 PM

Fan Bingbing (born 16 September 1981) is a Chinese actress, television producer and pop singer.

Fan Bingbing

"Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies." - Fan Bingbing.

Fan Bingbing (born September 16, 1981) is a Chinese actress, television producer and pop singer. She topped the Forbes China Celebrity 100 list in 2013, 2014, and 2015, after ranking in the top 10 every year since 2006.

Fan rose to fame in East Asia in 1998–1999 with the mega-hit TV series My Fair Princess. In 2003, she starred in Cell Phone, which became the highest-grossing Chinese film of the year, winning a Hundred Flowers Award.

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Since then she has received awards from the Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards, Eurasia International Film Festival, Tokyo International Film Festival, Beijing College Student Film Festival and Huading Awards for films like The Matrimony (2007), Lost in Beijing (2007), Buddha Mountain (2011) and Double Xposure (2012).

Fan has participated in many foreign-language films, such as the French film Stretch (2011), the Korean film My Way (2011) and the Hollywood blockbuster X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014). She has also been called a fashion icon due to frequent appearances on the red carpet, movie premieres, and fashion shows. Fan is famous for her ballads which reached number forty two on the MTV Asia channel.

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