Pan Hong

Pan Hong (Chinese: 潘虹, born November 4, 1954) is a Chinese film actress. She is widely regarded as one of the best film stars in her generation.

Early life

Born Liu Ronghua (刘蓉华) on November 4, 1954, she was from Shanghai. During the Cultural Revolution, her parents was forced to be divorced. Then she changed her surname "Liu" (her father's) to Pan (her mother's) and lived with her mother who was born in 1922.^[1] 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.^[2]

Career

After Pan graduated from the Shanghai Theatre Academy, she performed several supporting roles in films. In 1982, as a leading actor, she shot-fame for At the Middle Age.^[3] 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 times winner, Pan received a Golden Rooster Special Award in 1994. Chinese critics named her "The last noble in the Chinese film industry".^[4] She is the vice-chairman of the China Film Association and China Film Performance Academic Society.^[5]

Personal life

It is said that Pan Hong's grandfather（Her dad's father） is a Russian man. When Pan was 7 years old, she fractured her finger by sticking in the sewer. Her beloved grandma（mom's mother） passed away in 1974. Grandma once fractured her hand bone for Pan after 1 month of Pan's born. In 1978, 24-year-old Pan married Mi Jiashan (米家山) who is seven years older（born in May of 1947）. Mi, at that time, was a common worker in Shanghai Filmmaking Factory. Mi's hometown's in the Chengdu,Sichuan. After marriage, most of time Pan lived in Chengdu. The couple divorced in 1986, but they remained friends. Pan Hong adores him till now. After divorce Pan backed to her mother who's living in Shanghai and lived with her temporarily.^[6] New Year's Day in 1989, Pan Hong stayed in America New York with the movie shooting group who's shooting a film called The Last Aristocrat. Last year she've been photographed by an American reporter and became the cover of Times in Sept 12th, 1988. Covering Times, she's the first Chinese artist and second person（the first is Deng Xiaoping）. Unfortunately there's no cover picture in Times' official website. February 8, 1994, Pan Hong formally moved to the house she bought with her loan. Before this she's been using 1 weeks for moving her furnitures to the new house by herself when being told OK by decorators on 30th in last month. In January, 1995, Pan Hong published her diaries written during 1994. ^[7] Around 2003, she converted herself to the Buddhist gate and became a vegetarian. To date, Pan never remarried and has no children.^[8]

Selected filmography

See also

• List of people whose parent committed suicide

References

External links

• Dianying.com-Pan Hong
• Hong Pan on IMDb