Michelle Ye Xuan

Biography

Michelle Ye Xuan was born on February 14, 1980 in Hangzhou, China, and grew up in a well-off family. Her parents divorced when she was nine, and she emigrated to the United States with her grandparents at age ten. When her grandparents returned to China due to difficulty adapting to American life, she asked her father to let her live independently at thirteen. She studied at John Dewey High School in Brooklyn, then attended Wellesley College majoring in political sciences but dropped out after less than a year. In 1999, she represented New York at the Miss Chinese International Pageant in Hong Kong and won the title and the "Most Classical Beauty Award." She signed with TVB on the recommendation of then-chairman Run Run Shaw. Between 2000 and 2004, she starred in numerous hit TV dramas such as "The Legend of Deification," "Destined to Love," and "Triumph in the Skies," earning a nomination for "Most Improved Actress" in 2002. She left TVB in 2005 and joined another company, then moved into cinema. In 2010, she won the Best Supporting Actress award at the Hong Kong Film Awards for the film "Invisible Target." In 2011, she established her own studio in Beijing and became involved in film production, also becoming chairperson of a production company. She also began writing screenplays in 2012. She held academic positions as a visiting professor at several educational institutions and was admitted to the EMBA program at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business in 2013.