Trivia

Zhou Xun is the first actress in history to have won all three top acting prizes of Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. She bagged Best Actress awards at Hong Kong Film Awards and Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards for Perhaps Love (2005) in 2006. In 2009, Zhou set the historical record with her Best Actress win at China's Golden Rooster Awards for The Equation of Love and Death (2008).

As an advocate for low carbon lifestyles, every year Zhou Xun purchases hundreds of saplings and trees to be planted in Inner Mongolia, as a way to compensate for her yearly carbon consumption.

After watching a documentary series about autistic children, Zhou Xun started Autism Care Week on April 31, 2011, to shed a light on a subject long neglected in the Chinese media.

For her continuous effort to push for environmental awareness in China from the ground up, Zhou Xun was awarded with UNEP's Champion of the Earth award in 2010, the first entertainer in the world to receive this honor.

Beijing, China (March 2008)