Pan Hong


Pan Hong is a Chinese film actress. She is widely regarded as one of the best film stars in her generation.

Early life

Born Liu Ronghua on November 4, 1954, in Shanghai. During the Cultural Revolution, her parents were forced to get divorced. Then, she changed her surname "Liu" to Pan 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-fame as a leading actress for At the Middle Age. 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 China Film Performance Academic Society.

Personal life

It is said that Pan Hong's paternal grandfather is a Russian man.
When Pan was 7 years old, she fractured her finger by sticking in the sewer.
Her beloved maternal grandmother died in 1974. Her grandma once fractured her hand bone for Pan after a month since her birth.
In 1978, 24-year-old Pan married Mi Jiashan 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, but they remained friends. Pan Hong adores him until now. After divorce, Pan returned to Shanghai and lived with her mother temporarily.
New Year's Day in 1989, Pan Hong stayed in New York with the group who is shooting a film called The Last Aristocrat. The year before, she was photographed by an American reporter and became the cover of Times in Sept 12th, 1988. She was the second Chinese and the first Chinese actress to become the cover of the magazine. Unfortunately, there's no cover picture in 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 never remarried and has no children.

Selected filmography

Film

Television