Zhou Xun, a Chinese actress and singer, has starred in movies including Suzhou River (2000), Baober In Love (2004), Perhaps Love (2005), The Banquet (2006), The Equation of Love and Death (2008), Painted Skin serials (2008, 2012), and The Message (2009); TV series including Palace of Desire (2000), Love Story in Shanghai (2000), Ripe Tangerines (2002), Red Sorghum (2014) and Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace (2018). Zhou has won China’s Best Actress honors from Golden Rooster Awards, Golden Horse Awards, Hong Kong Film Awards, Hundred Flowers Awards, Magnolia Awards, Golden Eagle Awards, as well as the French awards, Festival du Film de Paris. She was also cited by CNN as one of Asia’s 25 greatest actors of all time, and earned the French “Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.”