Chinese actress, singer, and producer

Fan Bingbing

Fan Bingbing is a Chinese actress. After gaining recognition for the costume drama My Fair Princess (1998–1999), Fan's breakthrough came with Feng Xiaogang's film Cell Phone (2003), which won her the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress. She followed with television series such as The Proud Twins (2004), Eight Heroes (2006), and The Empress of China (2014) while collaborating with Li Yu on art-house films such as Lost in Beijing (2007), Buddha Mountain (2011), Double Xposure (2012), and Ever Since We Love (2015). She reunited with Feng in I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016), which won her the Silver Shell for Best Actress and the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress.

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1981

September 16

Died

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681 Pope Honorius I is posthumously excommunicated by the Sixth Ecumenical Council.
1400 Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers.
1620 Pilgrims set sail for Virginia from Plymouth, England in the Mayflower.
1701 James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland on the death of his father, James II.

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The world in 1981

When Fan arrived

april 10 Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands is elected to Westminster as the MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, Northern Ireland. He died twenty-six days later.
april 11 A massive riot in Brixton, south London, results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
april 12 The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) takes place: The STS-1 mission.
april 14 STS-1: The first operational Space Shuttle, Columbia, completes its first test flight.

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Alexander Vinokourov 1973– Kazakh cyclist and manager Anne Francis 1930–2011 American actress (born 1930) Daoguang Emperor of China (died 1850) 1782– Kirsty Coventry 1983– Zimbabwean swimmer and 10th President of the International Olympic Committee Micky Stewart 1932– English cricketer and coach Nick Jonas 1992– American singer-songwriter and guitarist Travis Wall 1987– American dancer and choreographer Ursula Franklin 1921– German-Canadian metallurgist (died 2016) Yuan Di 508–555 emperor of the Liang Dynasty (born 508)

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Beyoncé 1981– American singer-songwriter Amanda Beard 1981– American swimmer Amy Lee 1981– American singer, songwriter and pianist André Lotterer 1981– German race car driver Anthony Ervin 1981– American swimmer Audrey Tang 1981– Taiwanese Minister of Digital Affairs and programmer Cameron Winklevoss 1981– American rower and businessman, co-founded ConnectU Chin-hui Tsao 1981– Taiwanese baseball player Daisuke Sekimoto 1981– Japanese wrestler

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