Background
Yao Chen was born in Shishi City, Quanzhou, Fujian province, China in 1979 to a middle-class family, and studied Chinese folk dance at the Beijing Dance Academy from 1993 to 1997, then studied at the Beijing Film Academy from 1999 to 2003. Her acting debut was as the daughter of a powerful martial artist in a 2005 television production of My Own Swordsman.
Education
Beijing Dance Academy. Beijing Film Academy.
Career
In 2014, Time named Yao on the list of 100 global celebrities. As of 2014, she is listed as the 83rd most powerful woman in the world by Forbes. Following this, in 2008, she played the part of an iconic guerilla leader in the series Undercover.
Her first stage appearance was as a white-collar heroine in.
She has since appeared as Mango in Feng Xiaogang"s, in Chen Yili’s Colour Maine Love (2010) and in Shang Jing’s My Own Swordsman (2011). In 2011 Yao Chen visited Mae Louisiana refugee camp in northern Thailand as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’s Honorary Patron for China.
As she left Mae Louisiana she said, "I hope to spend part of every year with refugees." On 17 November 2012 Yao Chen married cinematographer Cao Yu in Queenstown, New Zealand. She has spoken in support of journalists from the Southern Weekend protesting government enforced media censorship.
As of 2014, she is listed as the 83rd most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.