Chen Kun
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Chen at the 2007 Shanghai International Film Festival.
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| Background information | |
| Chinese name | (traditional) |
| Chinese name | (simplified) |
| Pinyin | Chén Kūn (Mandarin) |
| Jyutping | Can4 Kwan1 (Cantonese) |
| Born |
February 4, 1976 Chongqing, China |
| Other name(s) | Aloys Chen |
| Occupation | Actor, Singer, |
| Genre(s) | Mandopop |
| Voice type(s) | Baritone |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Children | 1 son |
Chen Kun (born February 4, 1976), sometimes credited as Aloys Chen, is a Chinese actor and singer. He has won the Hundred Flowers Award's for Best Actor, Huabiao Award for Best Actor, and has received one Golden Horse Award nomination for Best Actor.
Chen gained recognition from the 2001 television drama Love Story in Shanghai and the 2002 film Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. He rose to international prominence from the 2006 film The Knot and the 2008 fantasy film Painted Skin, which also garnered him a Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actor. In 2015, he starred in the box office hit Mojin: The Lost Legend.
Chen was born in Chongqing. His parents divorced soon after Chen's second younger brother was born, and Chen began working part-time in high school to support his mother. He started as a typist at the municipal office and later as a solo singer at night clubs. He showed early talent in singing and was strongly recommended by his vocal trainer and mentor to join the China Oriental Song and Dance Ensemble (now China National Song and Dance Ensemble) at Beijing in 1995. In 1996, he was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy, where he began taking acting classes.
Although unmarried, Chen has one son born in 2002 named Youyou. Chen never intends to uncover the identity of Youyou's mother.
Chen debuted in the 1999 film The National Anthem, and rose to prominence with the 2001 television drama Love in Shanghai.
Chen gained more recognition in 2002, after starring in Franco-Chinese romance film Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. The film was nominated the 55th Cannes Festival, which Chen attended together with his co-star Zhou Xun.
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