YU NAN (CHINA)

Winning much praise at Berlin this year for her performance in Wang Quanan's Tuya's Marriage - which picked up the Golden Bear - Yu Nan has been drawing comparisons with Gong Li, another major Chinese export. Her career certainly has its parallels with Gong's: both won recognition by portraying a woman in a rural village and both mostly worked with one director before going international - Yu with Wang and Gong with Zhang Yimou. ...