Song Jia, born in Harbin in 1980, is a Chinese actress with a stage-trained sense for restraint. She won the Golden Rooster for Best Actress for the working-class drama The Piano in a Factory (2010), playing the wife whose departure sets the film in motion. She has since moved between arthouse projects and mainland television dramas, keeping her choices selective rather than mass. Regarded within the industry as an actor's actor, she is often cited for the quiet weight she brings to ordinary women. Read more