Luo Yan (Chinese: 罗燕; pinyin: Luó Yàn; born 1957 (age 60 [1]) is a Chinese American actress and screenwriter. She was born in Urumqi, Xinjiang. After having a successful acting career in China, she came to the U.S. in the mid-1980s. She started her own business during the early 1990s and later became the first female Chinese filmmaker to produce, write, and star in a Hollywood film.
Both her parents were biology professors. She was raised by her grandparents in Shanghai. When she was 10 years old, her grandfather was arrested and held in concentration camps. He died shortly after his release and Yan Luo had to take responsibility and care for her ailing grandmother at a very young age.
While working at the Shanghai Textile Factory, she secretly took acting classes and became an active member of a local theater group. In 1977, she applied to the Shanghai Drama Institute and was one of only 20 to be accepted in her class.
Her break through in China came with the movie Female Student Dormitory in 1984. She then starred in The Girl in Red.
Starting in 1986, Yan Luo studied English with the hopes of receiving a scholarship to study outside of China. Six months later she received one to study at Boston University.
After working as a waitress, cleaning lady, baby sitter, and housekeeper during her time in Boston, she earned her master's degree in fine arts in 1990.
She then interned with the Los Angeles Theater Center and continued taking classes at UCLA, mainly focusing on film production.
In 1994, Yan Luo founded Moonstone International, an import-export company. Today the company reports annual sales of over $4 million and employs more than 20.
In 1996 she started to work on Pavilion of Women, a movie after the novel by Pearl S. Buck. In 1997 she decided to co-write the script and started production in 1999.
Luo Yan is a popular actress in China. She was twice nominated for the Hundred-Flower Award, China’s equivalent of the Oscars, for the films The Student Dormitory and The Girl in Red. She got her BA from the Shanghai Drama Institute in China and her MFA from Boston University. She produced, wrote and starred in Pavilion of Women, based on the book of the same name by Nobel Prize winning author, Pearl S. Buck. The film was also successfully distributed by Shanghai Moonstone International, a distribution company owned by Luo since 1995, in 888 theaters in China and received the highest box office record for China co-produced films for the year. Due to the film’s success, Luo founded a film marketing and distribution company in China, Moonstone China.
she is acter producer and directer she worked in many movies Fei chang shui yue is first movie of luo yan the release date of this movie is 1983.
and after popularity of this movie she made another moovie name is Hong yi shao nu this movie was released in 1985 luo yan worked in almost 5 to 6 movies.
according to my knowledge a movie which was released in 1985 after this movie luo yan got award name is "Hundred Flowers Award" this award is for best supporting actress.
as a producer she made 3 movies names are 21 & Over release date is 2013 and second movie is baby in the sky release date is 2008 and the last movie is Pavilion of Women in 2001.
she made one movie as a directer name is baby in the sky in this movie luo yan is directer.
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