Eugenia Yuan
- Actress
- Additional Crew
- Sound Department
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 (2004) and
made memorable turns in John Dahl's
The Great 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.