Eugenia Yuan

Eugenia Yuan

actress, additional crew, sound department

Eugenia Yuan was born on Jan 22, 1976 in USA. Eugenia Yuan's big-screen debut came with Dragon Lord directed by Jackie Chan in 1982. Eugenia Yuan is known for Secret City directed by Emma Freeman, Anna Torv stars as Harriet Dunkley and Marcus Graham as Andrew Griffiths. Eugenia Yuan has got 6 awards and 6 nominations so far. The most recent award Eugenia Yuan achieved is International Independent Film Awards. The upcoming new tvshow Eugenia Yuan plays is Secret City - Season 2 which will be released on Jun 26, 2018.

A Hong Kong Oscar winner and daughter of martial arts legend 'Pei-pei Cheng', Eugenia Yuan started out her career not as an actress, but as a champion rhythmic gymnast for the U.S. Olympic Team. Eventually, career switching from an athlete to on-screen ingénue, Eugenia made her screen debut co-starring with her mother in the martial arts picture _Flying Dragon, Leaping Tiger (2002). She caught the eye of movie executives on both sides of world who offered to groom to take inherit her mother's kung fu crown. Eugenia opted instead to co-star in the dark, low-budget feature Charlotte Sometimes which garnered an honor at the Independent Spirit Awards and was publicly championed by national film critic Roger Ebert and featured in his own film festival. Eugenia returned to Hong Kong to star in the feature collection of three dramatic shorts by heavy weight local directors entitled Three... Extremes where she nabbed the Hong Kong Film Award as "Best Newcomer" (Hong Kong's equivalent of the Academy Awards). Soon after, Hollywood director Doug Liman hand-picked her for the title role of the cult hit mockumentary Mail Order Wife (2004)), which brought her to national attention when she was named as a "Rising Star/Screen Acting Discovery" by the Hamptons International Film Festival where the film premiered. She was later nominated for Hong Kong's prestigious Golden Horse Award for her starring role in The eye 2 - renaissances (2004) and made memorable turns in John Dahl's Le Grand Raid (2005) and, most recently, the Oscar-winning Memoirs of a Geisha. Eugenia continues to shuttle back and forth between Los Angeles, New York, and Hong Kong to take Studio, Chinese-language and American independent roles alike including the 2007 Gotham Awards winning film Choking Man. She also co-stars with Hong Kong icon 'Tony Leung Ka Fai' in the Hong Kong thriller _Zhan. gu (2007). Most recently Eugenia has starred in the Martin Scorsese feature at the Toronto Film Festival, Revenge of the Green Dragons and is wrapping Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon 2.

  • Birthday

    Jan 22, 1976
  • Place of Birth

    Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Also known

    Eugenia Yuen

Known For

Awards

6 wins & 6 nominations

International Independent Film Awards
2017
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Winner - Platinum Award
Jasmine (2015)
Solaris Film Festival
2017
Best Supporting Actress
Winner - Jury Prize
Jasmine (2015)
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