A Chinese actress, singer and producer. She was born in Qingdao, Shandong, and raised in Yantai, Shandong. She graduated from Shanghai Xie Jin's Star School and Shanghai Theatre Academy.

She has received awards from the Tokyo International Film Festival, Beijing College Student Film Festival, Golden Horse Film Festival and the Hundred Flowers Awards among others. she was ranked No. 1 in "50 Most Beautiful People in China" list in 2010 by the newspaper Beijing News. According to her appearances on the red carpet, movie premiere and fashion shows, the media describes her as a fashion icon.

In 1997, Fan Bingbing rose to stardom for her supporting role as Jin Suo in the Chinese television drama Princess Pearl and its sequel in 1998. Before Princess Pearl, she had played some walk-on parts in some crews for almost 2 years. It was the Taiwanese actress Liu Xuehua that recommended her to the Princess Pearl crew. Then Fan Bingbing signed an eight-year contract with Chiung Yao's company, which was the producer of Princess Pearl. But the company had not yet set up an office or a branch office in the Mainland in 1998, so many television advertising arrangements must call to Taiwan to negotiate, and that wasted a lot of things. Fan Bingbing and her mother wanted to end this contract, but the company claimed a ¥1 million compensation. Because the contract was illegal due to Fan Bingbing's age, under the coordination of the court, Fan Bingbing paid ¥200,000 to end the contract.