Ai Wan

S.A.G/A.F.T.R.A

Born in Shanghai, raised in the United States. Award winning film producer/Actress, host of the International Fashion Week, Fashion TV, culture columnist and successful entrepreneur. Ai Wan is one of China’s most talented and dynamic young creative personalities. Member of the American Screen Actor’s Union, and once selected by the MTV film fan's network as the most popular actress. Crowned both Miss Chinese International and Miss Talent. Once named world most exotic beauty by the American Playboy magazine. She was picked by Outlook design magazine as the most prominent member of the burgeoning creative class in China.

She believes that life and artistic creation must break free from traditional thought, and that creativity is based on the rediscovery and unleashing of self-knowledge. In 2005, she opened two studios, Epic Design and Epic Entertainment, in Beijing. At the end of 2006 she opened Beijing's most 'in' dance club, the ChinaDoll Club.It has received “the best new club of the year 2007 “ and best designed eight awards from City Weekend and That’s Beijing magazine. In May 2008, she opened ChinaDoll @3.3, it’s awarded as world top 18 design inspired club by The Black Book magazine in New York.

She wields social influence via her column 'Clubbing Culture' in the city edition of Modern Weekly (which it has received the most inferential publication award in China since 2005), where she uses her unique perspective to observe the current creative state of the most passionate, most avant-garde and most active people in music. She published a hot-selling collection of cutting-edge essays titled Let's Do Lunch with a group of famous artists, the book has stayed on the top of the best selling chart in China in 2005-2006.

She is the co- producer for Li Ying's documentary film ”Yasukuni ”. It is the official selection for Berlin film festival in Feb 2008. The film has won “the best documentary film of the year with humanitarian award” in HongKong film festival in April 2008.

Education:

4 years master acting training (comedy &drama) with Aaron Speiser , Hollywood

           2years with Edge Dance Academy, Hollywood

           Speech coach include Mark Sikes, Bill Dearth and Beverly Long, Hollywood

4 years Chinese Wu Shu training , Shanghai

          Fashion institute of design & merchandising, Los Angles

          UCLA Film school

Film:

Sophie’s revenge:                 Supporting role as an influential art curator, in a romantic

                                                comedy starring Zhang Ziyi, Fan Bing Bing

Rush Hour 1 :                       Sidekick of the gang leader opposing Jackie Chan and

                                               popular US comedy star Chris Tucker

A Rock and a Hard Place:  As the two-faced female lead

Red Steel:                             Female lead as the younger sister of a drug baron who falls in love with a cop

Fallen Angel:                        Female lead as a 1930's lesbian gangster’s moll

Fire In My Heart:               Female lead as an out-of-luck destitute and handicapped gambler

The Puzzle in The Air:       Played female lead alongside David Carrdine (Kill Bill 1+2) as

                                               leader of a team of US  special agents

On Deadly Ground:            Supporting role alongside Joan Chen and US action star Steven Segal

Death Becomes Her:          Supporting role as a maid in ancient Greece, in a film starring

                                              Isabella Rossellini, and Bruce Willis

City of Industry:                Supporting role as an corrupt telephone operator alongside

                                             Harvey Kaitel, Timothy Hutton, Stephen Dorff.

Dragon’s Gate:                   Supporting role in a Sony production as a Goddess spirit.

TV Shows:

E．R．                                 Medical intern

Fresh Prince of Bel-Air:    Supporting Role

Lyricist Lounge:                 Comedy guest star, MTV production

L.A Heat:                             Supporting Role

MTV’s Undressed:             Female lead as a university student in the popular teen show.  

                                              Chosen by MTV film fans as “Most Popular Actress”.

TV Show Host / Producer:

Fashion TV                          Host

Tea Time:                            Hosted guests on US Chinese language channel KSCI 18's talk show

Knights and Warriors:       English language hosting on CBS's 24-episode general arts program

Hollywood Today:              Bilingual hosting on the entertainment news show. Also produced

Reality Check:                    English language hosting and production on KLTA's youth show

Music Videos:

Grammy winner R.Kelly's “She’s got the Vibe”

Grammy winner Melissa Ethridge's “Fallen down” 

Popular French singer Ophelia Winter’s” Spring of Love”

UK singer Robert Palmer's “Addicted to Love”

Awards:

“Y.2.F.U” female lead in the black comedy play which was performed 24 times, and won a

                                           Los Angeles Times award

Former Miss Chinese International U.S.A and special award for artistic achievement

Calendars, Billboards:

Cover girl for the "Sensual Asian Women” calendar 5 years running

Cover girl for the “Southern California Dream Girl” calendar

Selected by “Play Boy” for “Globe-Hop with the world’s most exotic women”

Adverts- Vidal Sassoon (US), Nokia (US, SE Asia), Budweiser (US), Hawaii Suntan Lotion (US), McDonald's (HK and China), Chanel (Los Angeles Weekly Pictorial), China Southern International Airlines(US), Pro-Tek, Super-Cut Spokesperson (US), Aziza Elite Cosmetics (US),Fredrick’s of Hollywood(US), Sketcher’s (US), H&R Block Tax(US) Legg’s Hosiery (US), Sipasi (US), Tony & Guy Spokesperson(Beijing)etc.