Fan Bingbing

Fan Bingbing is a well-recognized actress, model, television producer, as well as a pop singer. Since 2013, she has been listed as the highest-paid celebrity in the ‘Forbes China Celebrity 100’ list for four years in a row. She has received the award at the ‘Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards’, ‘Tokyo International Film Festival’, ‘San Sebastian International Film Festival’ and ‘Asian Film Awards’. In 2006, Forbes China gave its most prized award, the Star of the Year, to Fan for her popularity, high press coverage, and website hits throughout that year. In April 2010, she was ranked first on the "50 Most Beautiful People in China" list by the newspaper Beijing News. She rose to fame in East Asia in 1998-1999 with the TV costume drama series My Fair Princess. She was secretly detained by Chinese authorities, disappearing from the public on 1st July 2018 for nearly three months. She appeared on social media, offering a public apology over tax evasion, for which the Chinese authorities fined her more than 883 million yuan (about US$127.4 million). Overall, she is a very talented actress.