A Hong Kong Oscar winner and daughter of martial arts legend ‘Pei-pei Cheng’, Eugenia Yuan started out her career not as an actress, but as a champion rhythmic gymnast for the U.S. Olympic Team. Eventually, career switching from an athlete to on-screen ingénue, Eugenia made her screen debut co-starring with her mother in the martial arts picture Flying Dragon, Leaping Tiger (2002). See her bio below.
About the film
Shot in Thailand, She Has A Name is a dramatic thriller. The film focuses on an investigation into a trafficking incident in South East Asia and explores the layers of corruption, globally, that enable the illegal sex trade to thrive.
The film is being directed by Matthew and Daniel Kooman from a screenplay by Andrew Kooman. The Kooman brothers along with Donna Abraham and Shari Aspinall are producing. Lance Kadatz and Dean Kohut are Executive Producers.
Eugenia Yuan bio:
Eugenia where she nabbed the Hong Kong Film Award as “Best Newcomer” (Hong Kong’s equivalent of the Academy Awards) in Three…Extremes. Soon after, Hollywood director Doug Liman hand-picked her for the title role of the cult hit mockumentary Mail Order Wife (2004)), which brought her to national attention when she was named as a “Rising Star/Screen Acting Discovery” by the Hamptons International Film Festival where the film premiered. She was later nominated for Hong Kong’s prestigious Golden Horse Award for her starring role in The Eye 2 (2004) and made memorable turns in John Dahl‘s The Great Raid (2005) and the Oscar-winning Memoirs of a Geisha.
Eugenia continues to shuttle back and forth between Los Angeles, New York, and Hong Kong to take Studio, Chinese-language and American independent roles alike including the 2007 Gotham Awards winning film Choking Man. She also co-stars with Hong Kong icon ‘Tony Leung Ka Fai’ in the Hong Kong thriller Zhan gu (2007). Most recently Eugenia has starred in the Martin Scorsese feature at the Toronto Film Festival, Revenge of the Green Dragons and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Sword of Destiny.
Read her full bio: http://imdb.to/1rh7PCM