Graduate school: Zhejiang Art School was founded in the mid-1970s. At that time, the cinema was the cultural center of every city in China. Quzhou, a small town, is no exception. Zhou Xun's home is close to the cinema, so close that you can see people coming and going in the cinema and hear the opening bell from your balcony. Three-year-old Zhou Xun became a frequent visitor to the cinema because her father worked in the cinema. In the eyes of this three-year-old girl, the opening moment of the film is like opening just visiting. Every time I go to the cinema, it is a trip through time and space. Many years later, Zhou Xun changed from a movie audience to a movie actor. Extraordinary understanding and unique atmosphere impressed every director who worked together, and countless audiences were conquered by her acting skills. People call her "an elf who fell into the mortal world."

For Zhou Xun, entering the film industry is a very accidental thing. 199 1 year, director Xie Tieli found a girl with big eyes that seemed a little mysterious from a calendar. After some twists and turns, she found Zhou Xun who was at school at that time, so Zhou Xun's first film Tomb Raider was born. Three years later, through the cover photo of a magazine, Xie Yan, the director of the film Daughter Red, found Zhou Xun. Since then, Zhou Xun, less than 20 years old, has embarked on the road of film photography.

Although he has not received professional performance training, Zhou Xun is favored by many big-name directors because of his good artistic sense and great plasticity. Both Chen Kaige, who asked Zhou Xun to film in the early days, and Li, who later cooperated with Zhou Xun, gave a good evaluation to this girl. Chen Kaige even called Zhou Xun "a good spiritual communicator". In the initial shooting process, although Zhou Xun played only a few supporting roles, her unique temperament and extraordinary aura often left a deep impression on people, sometimes even inferior to those famous actors. The early red prescription is an example. In the film, Zhou Xun plays Shen Pei, the daughter of Xi Meijuan who is addicted to drugs. She vividly showed the audience the soul affected by drugs, which aroused people's strong dislike of the "white monster". Then, in the New Year's drama "Just be happy", she played a girl with a little advanced thinking and a little different style. She even played the role of a blind girl in Chen Kaige's "Jing Ke Stabbed the King of Qin". There were not many scenes, but she left a deep impression on the audience: her blind but still beautiful eyes provoked people's infinite love, and her hoarse and desperate plea to "kill me" completely subverted the emotional world of the audience. It is precisely because of this outstanding performance that she has not been overshadowed by the brilliance of big-name stars such as Gong Li and ZhangFeng yi, but has shown a trend of "unique scenery here".