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Actor and director Chen Jianbin won three awards at the 51st Golden Horse Awards in Taipei on November 22, creating a new record for what is one of the largest events in the Chinese-language film industry's calendar.

Chen was born in 1970 in Urumqi, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. He received a master's degree from the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing in 1998 before joining the National Theater of China. Chen first began acting in 1993. He has been the recipient of acting awards in China and South Korea. In 2011, he was the male lead in the TV series Empresses in the Palace, which is particularly popular in East Asia.

Chen undertook his first foray into feature film directing in 2014 with the film A Fool. He won Best Actor and Best New Director for this film as well as Best Supporting Actor for Paradise in Service at the Golden Horse Awards.