Actors/Actress

Shiang-Chyi Chen is an actress of stage and screen. A graduate of Taipei National University of the Arts, she has received rigorous acting training and performed in many stage plays. By chance, when she followed the Shakespeare Acting Class in college, she was selected by director Edward Yang for the leading female role (“Qiqi”) in A Confucian Confusion. For her beauty and wonderful performance, she received many proposals to act in films, but she declined them all and opted for further studies in the U.S.

During her study in the U.S., she followed performing courses at HB Studio and Saratoga International Theatre Institute in New York, enriching and deepening her performance through strict training of voice and body language as well as the life experience of studying abroad. After obtaining a Master's Degree in Theatre Arts Education from New York University, she returned to teach at the Taipei National University of the Arts. In addition to starring in films, she was also active in theater and has performed in several classic plays.

In recent years, she has made great breakthroughs in her acting career. In 2002, she was nominated for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film of Golden Bell Awards with Love Drifting Between Intimacy and Loneliness. In 2013, she was nominated for Best Leading Actress of Golden Horse Awards with Goodbye Dragon Inn. In 2005, She was nominated for Best Leading Actress of Golden Horse Awards again, and this time was for her performance in The Wayward Cloud, which perfectly affirmed her professional and superb performance over the years.

She was nominated for Best Leading Actress of Golden Horse Awards for many times, and won her first trophy of the 51th Golden Horse Awards for Exit. In July, 2022, she won Best Leading Actress of the 24th Taipei Film Awards for Increasing Echo.

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