Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2614
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Fan Bingbing works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Fan Bingbing appears in 16 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Fan. Mother Bhumi is the clearest case: a film rated 8.4 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, drama. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, drama, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jonathan Hensleigh, Simon Kinberg, Sean McNamara and others, Fan Bingbing helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Mother Bhumi (2025) as Hong Im · X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) as Blink · My Way (2011) as Shirai
Career snapshot
Ranked #2614 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
16
2007–2025
Career length
18 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.4
Mother Bhumi
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.4
Mother Bhumi
Most frequent director
Jonathan Hensleigh
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Jonathan Hensleigh
Most common genre
Action
12 titles
Average runtime
1h 59m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.4
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2000s
6.8 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Bodyguards and Assassins, Shinjuku Incident, Flash Point — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.8
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.7
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Bodyguards and Assassins, Shinjuku Incident, Flash Point.
Most productive era
2010s
6 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.73 films | 6.43 films | 6.93 films |
| Action | 6.83 films | 6.46 films | 6.03 films |
| Thriller | 6.71 film | — | 6.12 films |
| Comedy | — | 5.81 film | — |
| Crime | 6.71 film | 5.81 film | — |
| Romance | 6.61 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2007Flash Point
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Judy.
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2025Mother Bhumi
8.4 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once. The current state of the argument, as Hong Im.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
16 of 16 films
as Hong Im
Directed by Unknown
as Shirai
Directed by Kang Je-kyu
as Blink
Directed by Bryan Singer
as Liu Pingguo
Directed by Unknown
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Hong Im
Mother Bhumi (2025)
Performance score8.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Hong Im gives Fan Bingbing a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Shirai
My Way (2011)
Performance score7.7
My Way asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Shirai is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Blink
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Performance score7.3
X-Men: Days of Future Past asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Blink is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Liu Pingguo
Lost in Beijing (2007)
Performance score7.3
Lost in Beijing asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Liu Pingguo is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Hong Im
Start here. Mother Bhumi is the clearest statement of what Fan Bingbing does — accessible, 129 minutes, and rated 8.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Fan at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Lost in Beijing (2007)
Same director as Mother Bhumi, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
My Way (2011)
Keeps the drama register of Lost in Beijing but asks for a colder reading of it.
Shaolin (2011)
Keeps the action register of My Way but asks for a colder reading of it.
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Keeps the action register of Shaolin but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Wilson Yip
Director
1 film together
Notably Flash Point
Derek Yee Tung-Sing
Director
1 film together
Notably Shinjuku Incident
Kang Je-kyu
Director
1 film together
Notably My Way
Bryan Singer
Director
1 film together
Notably X-Men: Days of Future Past
Renny Harlin
Director
1 film together
Notably Skiptrace
Edward Guo
Director
1 film together
Notably L.O.R.D: Legend of Ravaging Dynasties 2
Sean McNamara
Director
1 film together
Notably The King's Daughter
Simon Kinberg
Director
1 film together
Notably The 355
Jonathan Hensleigh
Director
1 film together
Notably Ice Road: Vengeance
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Bryan Singer
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
X-Men: Days of Future PastKang Je-kyu
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My WaySean McNamara
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The King's DaughterWilson Yip
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Flash PointDerek Yee Tung-Sing
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Shinjuku IncidentJonathan Hensleigh
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ice Road: VengeanceSimon Kinberg
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The 355Edward Guo
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
L.O.R.D: Legend of Ravaging Dynasties 2Renny Harlin
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SkiptraceSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Mother Bhumi
as Hong Im
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Mother Bhumi
as Hong Im
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Mother Bhumi
as Hong Im
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
X-Men: Days of Future Past
as Blink
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Mother Bhumi
as Hong Im
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Fan Bingbing has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Action Legend
Awarded
12 catalogue titles in action, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Mother Bhumi
as Hong Im
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Mother Bhumi
as Hong Im
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Mother Bhumi
as Hong Im
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The King's Daughter
as Mermaid
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
X-Men: Days of Future Past
as Blink
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The 355
as Lin Mi Sheng
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
L.O.R.D: Legend of Ravaging Dynasties 2
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Lost in Beijing
as Liu Pingguo
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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