Ziyi Zhang is currently a third-year student of the Performing Arts Faculty at China Central Drama College. Her first film was 1999’s The Road Home, helmed by the renowned director Zhang Yi-mou. The film went on to garner the Jury Grand Prix Silver Bear at the 2000 edition of the Berlin Film Festival.
Brought up in a working class family in Beijing, Zhang passed the entrance examination of the secondary school affiliated with the Beijing Dancing College at the age of eleven. She also won an award in the National Young Dancer competition.
