Zhang Ziyi

Zhang Ziyi (born 9 February 1979) is a Chinese actress whose international breakthrough came in Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). She went on to lead Zhang Yimou's wuxia diptych Hero (2002) and House of Flying Daggers (2004), starred in Wong Kar-wai's 2046 (2004) and The Grandmaster (2013), and headlined the English-language Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), for which she received Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations (Wikipedia)