1991
A Brighter Summer Day
Made his film debut in Edward Yang’s drama.
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จางเจิ้น
From Taiwanese cinema to Arrakis
An actor whose career began with A Brighter Summer Day.
A career shaped by filmmakers
Chang Chen is a Taiwanese actor whose film career began as a teenager in Edward Yang’s A Brighter Summer Day (1991). The coming-of-age drama introduced him in a leading role.
He reached a wider international audience through Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). His credits also include Wong Kar-wai’s Happy Together and Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Three Times.
Chang played the title figure in The Go Master, directed by Tian Zhuangzhuang, and received a best actor award at the Osaka Asian Film Festival. He later served on the feature-film jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018.
In Dune (2021), he plays Dr. Wellington Yueh. The film list below draws from the FLM.RED database and shows only titles currently available on the site.
Selected film roles
2000
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Appeared in Ang Lee’s martial-arts film.
2021
Dune
Played Dr. Wellington Yueh.
Performance readings are FLM.RED editorial interpretation.
Films in FLM.RED
Titles in this collection; not a complete filmography.
Sources & image notes
- Festival de Cannes — Chang Chen
- Festival de Cannes — actor interview
- Taipei Film Commission — filmography
- IMDb — Chang Chen credits
Portrait illustration: FLM.RED.