Ziyi Zhang's first appearance in American movie is Rush Hour 2.

Before that, she played Jen in 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' in 2000, a movie directed by Ang Lee.

Her first film is 'The Road Home' directed by Zhang Yimou who also directed 'Hero'.

The Road Home (the Chinese tile is 我的父亲母亲- wǒ de fù qīn mǔ qīn ) is a Chinese romantic drama film, telling a love story between a country girl and a city teacher. This film has won two awards at the 2000 Berlin International Film Festival, which also brought Ziyi to fame. She was only 19 when the movie was filmed