Zhang Mo

Zhang Mo (born 31 March 1983; ) is a Chinese writer, film editor and director who has worked on such films as Coming Home, The Flowers of War and A Simple Noodle Story. She is the daughter of renowned film director Zhang Yimou and has worked alongside him on many of his projects. In 2016 she made her directorial debut with the film Suddenly Seventeen.

Biography Zhang was born on March 31, 1983, in Xi'an, Shaanxi to film director Zhang Yimou and his wife Xiao Hua. She decided not to pursue a career in architecture any further feeling it to be too restrictive in allowing her to express her emotions. Leaving university, Zhang enrolled at the Tisch School of the Arts where she studied filmmaking. After graduating from Tisch with a Master of Fine Arts degree in film production, she went back to China to work alongside her father Zhang Yimou on some of his films. After gaining credit as an editor on the films Under the Hawthorn Tree and A Simple Noodle Story Zhang was given the role of assistant director on her fathers Hollywood blockbuster The Flowers of War.

Zhang married Daniel Wade Manwaring , CEO of IMAX China and former Creative Artists Agency executive, in October 2012. She was previously married to an American man named Tovey from May 2006 to late 2008.