Xu Jinglei (born April 16, 1974 in Beijing, China) is an actress and director most famous in Mainland China. Xu graduated from the Beijing Film Academy's prestigious Performance Institute in 1997. Along with Zhao Wei, Zhou Xun, and Zhang Ziyi, the mainland Chinese media considers her a member of the Four Young Dan actresses.Although not well known outside of China, her domestic importance cannot be underestimated: in mid 2006, her Chinese language blog had the most incoming links of any blog in any language on the Internet, according to Technorati.
Zhao Wei is a Chinese film actress and pop singer. Audiences sometimes refer to her by her English name, Vicki Zhao. She is one of the four most promising young film actresses in China along with Xu Jinglei, Zhang Ziyi and Zhou Xun.
Zhang Ziyi (born February 9, 1979, in Beijing) is one of the best-known Golden Globe-nominated Chinese film actresses working today, with a string of Chinese and international hits to her name. She is also one of the four most promising young film actresses in China, along with Zhao Wei, Xu Jinglei, and Zhou Xun. She has worked with renowned directors such as Zhang Yimou, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-Wai, Chen Kaige, Seijun Suzuki and Rob Marshall.
