Feihong Yu
- Actress
- Director
- Writer
Feihong Yu is a young Chinese actress, best known to Americans for her
highlight role in "The Joy Luck Club" as "Ying Ying", the young mother
who drowns her baby after being betrayed by her husband. She was born
in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. The daughter of nuclear
engineers, Faye was trained from age six in Chinese Classical Dance.
She enrolled in the Beijing Film Academy Acting Department in 1989.
While on vacation in Shanghai from the Academy she was introduced to
Wayne Wang and "The Joy Luck Club" production staff, who were on a
location scout. Although they had not intended to cast anyone from
mainland China, they were impressed by her talent, experience, and
fresh good looks and gave her the role of the most tragic character in
the film. The production brought her to the U.S. for the first time,
because the role, although set in China, was shot in entirely in San
Francisco. After "The Joy Luck Club" Faye appeared in the Hong Kong
film "Tian Di" with star Andy Lau. She returned to Beijing at the
invitation of her school to become an Assistant Professor. She moved to
Los Angeles in late 1994 to establish herself for work in English
language Motion Pictures and Television.
