Fan Bingbing (Chinese: 范冰冰, born 16 September 1981) is a Chinese actress. After gaining recognition for the costume drama My Fair Princess (1998–1999), Fan's breakthrough came with Feng Xiaogang's blockbuster Cell Phone (2003), which won her the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress. She followed with television series such as The Proud Twins (2004), Eight Heroes (2006), and The Empress of China (2014) while collaborating with Li Yu on art-house films such as Lost in Beijing (2007), Buddha Mountain (2011), and Double Xposure (2012). She reunited with Feng in I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016), which won her the Silver Shell for Best Actress and the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress. Fan's international credits include My Way (2011), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), Skiptrace (2016), and The 355 (2022). From 2013 to 2017, she was the highest-paid celebrity in the Forbes China Celebrity 100 list after ranking in the top 10 every year since 2006. She appeared on Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in 2017.

In 2018, Fan was involved in a tax evasion scandal, resulting in a CN¥883 million (US$127 million) tax liability and fine, as well as her blacklisting in mainland China. Fan returned to acting with a cameo in the South Korean TV show Insider (2022), followed by a starring role in the Hong Kong film Green Night (2023).

Fan was born in Qingdao and later raised in the coastal city of Yantai, Shandong. Her grandfather, Fan Jie, was a general in the naval air force, and her grandmother gave her the Chinese character bing, or “ice,” to honor the family’s ties to the sea. Fan grew up watching her father, Fan Tao, a pop singer, perform at regional competitions. Her mother, Zhang Chuanmei, was a dancer and an actress. Both were party committee members and served as cadres in the cultural division of the local port authority. Fan has a younger brother nineteen years her junior Fan Chengcheng, who was a member of boy group Nine Percent and NEXT.

In 1995, during her second year at high school, Fan was involved in a car accident and spent three months recuperating in a hospital, where she watched the Taiwanese drama The Empress of the Dynasty, starring Angela Pan as Wu Zetian. The drama gave Fan the dream of becoming an actress. Unable to advance to her senior year due to the accident while unwilling to repeat the second year, Fan applied to a performance school, Shanghai Xie Jin-Hengtong School of Arts.

Fan debuted in the television series Powerful Woman (1997), where she met actress Leanne Liu, who recommended her for the television series My Fair Princess (1998–1999). The two seasons of costume drama, which had initially slated her for one of the major roles as Zi Wei but then assigned her for a supporting role as Zi Wei's handmaiden Jin Suo, became a runaway success and brought her recognition across the Chinese-speaking world. After wrapping up with the shooting of the first season of My Fair Princess in 1997, at the age of 16, Fan signed with Chiung Yao, the Taiwanese writier and showrunner of My Fair Princess. They broke up in 1999 due to contractual disputes. Fan and her mother filed for termination with the agency, which countersued Fan for unilaterally terminating the contract and demanded a compensation fee of CN¥1 million. Through court mediation, Fan settled the contract termination with the agency by paying CN¥200,000 in compensation. In the same year, she signed a three-year contract with Jia Yun, a Chinese entrepreneur who became her confidant and was later wanted for "illegally absorbing public deposits" in 2007. Jia turned himself in in 2015.

From 2001 to 2007, Fan signed with Huayi Brothers. In 2002, Fan established Huairou Fanbingbing Film & Television Art Training School and a production and publicity company, both in the charge of her mother. In 2003, Fan starred in Feng Xiaogang's Cell Phone, which became China's highest-grossing film of the year and earned her the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress. Fan also appeared in films such as The Lion Roars (2002), The Twins Effect II (2004), A Chinese Tall Story (2005), and A Battle of Wits (2006). She received a nomination for Best Actress at the 12th Golden Bauhinia Awards for her role in the Chinese-South-Korean-Japanese epic film A Battle of Wits. In 2006, Forbes China awarded her the Star of the Year.

Fan left Huayi Brothers in February 2007 and started her own Fan Bingbing Studio. She starred in eight films in 2007, winning Best Supporting Actress at the 44th Golden Horse Awards for her role in The Matrimony. That year, her studio made its first television production, Rouge Snow (2008), adapted from the novel of the same name. Fan played the starring role in the production, portraying a poor girl who fights for freedom against fate after being sold to a wealthy and influential clan. In the same year, Fan starred in crime drama film Shinjuku Incident and was praised by critics for her performance. Fan featured in historical action film Bodyguards and Assassins, which earned her a nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 29th Hong Kong Film Awards.

In 2010, Fan starred in Chen Kaige's historical epic, Sacrifice. On 24 October, Buddha Mountain starring Fan premiered at the 23rd Tokyo International Film Festival, and earned her the Best Actress Award. In April 2010, Fan was ranked first on the "50 Most Beautiful People in China" list by the newspaper Beijing News. In 2011, Fan starred in the martial arts film Shaolin alongside Andy Lau and Jackie Chan and The Founding of a Party, which was released to mark the 90th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party. In May, she appeared at the 64th Cannes Film Festival to promote My Way together with director Kang Je-gyu and actors Jang Dong-gun and Joe Odagiri. In October, she became a member of the International Competition Jury of 24th Tokyo International Film Festival.