Joe Chen

Joe Chen is way too close to her family. Though she has been linked to several of her co-actors during the course of her career, she has maintained that she finds no time to date anyone.

She also says that her friends and family are enough to support her during the difficult phases. Although Wallace Huo has hinted quite a few times that he has dated Joe, there hasn’t been any official confirmation. Her link-up with Wang Kai has also been in news for quite some time.

Joe Chen was born in Hsinchu, Taiwan on 4th April 1979 into a middle class Taiwanese family. Having been a great fan of national and international TV shows, she dreamt of being an actress during her early teenage years. Adorned with spellbinding beauty and childlike grace, she indulged in learning the nuances of acting while performing for theatre during the middle and high school years.

Other than acting, she has always had passion for writing and reading. She loved poetry and wrote quite a lot of poems during her high school days.

After finishing her education, she entered showbiz through modelling and appeared for some small-time brands and magazines. Simultaneously, she joined the TV industry as an assistant, which helped her to bag a few supporting roles in series such as ‘Lavender’ and ‘My MVP Valentine’. She also did a few hosting stints here and there, but her career seemed to be going nowhere.

She was considered talentless by the people she was working with, but she never gave up and kept auditioning in hopes of a better role that would kick-start her career. The opportunity that she was looking for came in the year 2003, when she starred in ‘100% Senorita’ as the main lead and hence, her story began.

Starring in ‘100% Senorita’ in 2003 turned out to be a life-changing event for Joe. Playing the lead role in the series, she got the chance of a lifetime to showcase her strong acting skills. The romantic comedy drama became the highest rated comedy show in South Korea and launched her career with a bang. The series became quite a success in the neighboring countries as well, and more such lucrative acting offers rained in on Joe.

Since she was good at singing too, she joined the girl group ‘7 Flowers’. Despite their music being fairly popular among the public, the critics weren’t impressed, and neither were the top recording companies in Taiwan.

She focused on her acting career and had another breakthrough in the form of a series named ‘The Prince Who Turns into a Frog’ in 2005. The series broke all the previous rating records for a Taiwanese Idol drama and became the most successful series of its kind in the history of Taiwanese television. In the same year, she also appeared in guest roles in series ‘The Doctor’ and ‘Sugo’. With each of her television appearance, her popularity just kept crossing boundaries.

‘Treasure Hunter’ and ‘Stylish Man’, were two shows in which she took on the job of a host and made appearances in fiction dramas such as ‘A Game About Love’ and ‘Fated to Love You’. The latter came in the year 2008, and once again shattered all the previous records to become the most watched Taiwanese Idol drama of all time. For her role, she won a Huading Award for Best Actress and got nominated for a Golden Bell Award under the same category. The success of the series was so huge that more than 15 Asian countries showed interest in broadcasting it. Talks regarding the show reached as far as the USA, where the show built an audience at a decent pace.

This was the right time for her to explore more international markets and when Chinese TV producers approached her to be featured in their shows, she couldn’t deny as China was a bigger platform for actors than Taiwan. Then she took up this role which would go on to establish her image in the heart and mind of the Chinese. In 2010, she appeared in the series ‘The Girl in Blue’, which happened to be an adaptation of a highly successful online novel. The popularity of the series in China was magical and demand for Joe, the actress, grew further.