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Filmmaker · Taiwan

Ang Lee

Ang Lee was born in 1954 in Pingtung, in southern Taiwan, the son of a school principal whose family had left Jiangxi in 1949. Trained in theatre in Taipei and then in Illinois, and in film in New York, he spent six years as a stay-at-home father while his wife, a microbiologist, supported the family; in 1990, two of his screenplays took the first two places in a Taiwanese public competition and launched his career. He has twice won the Oscar for best director and lives between New York State and Taipei.

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