Fan Bingbing tops Forbes' 2015 list of Chinese celebrities

Western audiences may have first seen Fan Bingbing in a small role in the Hollywood blockbuster X-Men: Days of Future Past as the mutant superhero Blink.

However, Fan is a megastar in her native China, and she's topped Forbes China's list of Chinese celebrities for 2015, marking her third consecutive year in first place. In fact, she's been in the top 10 since 2006.

Fan, who is also a TV producer and pop singer, rose to fame in the late 1990s in China on the TV series My Fair Princess. Since then, she's starred in numerous Chinese films, including Buddha Mountain and Lost in Beijing, as well as foreign productions such as France's Stretch and South Korea's My Way.

Fan is followed by Cantopop singer and actor Andy Lau from Hong Kong (who starred in Infernal Affairs III and House of Flying Daggers).

Rounding out the top five is Taiwanese actor and singer-songwriter Jay Chou, who starred in the international release Curse of the Golden Flower as well as the Hollywood film The Green Hornet with Vancouver's Seth Rogen; mainland Chinese TV and film star Huang Xiaoming (The Sniper, Ip Man 2); and actor Zhang Ziyi, who starred in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Hero; and House of Flying Daggers, and crossed over to Hollywood in films such as Memoirs of a Geisha and Rush Hour 2.

Hong Kong chop-socky star Jackie Chan made the cut at number 10.

Vancouver-raised Hong Kong actor, singer-songwriter, and entrepreneur Nicholas Tse came in at number 16.

Singer-songwriter and actor Faye Leung (Chungking Express, 2046) was listed at number 31.

Actor Tony Leung, known for his roles in Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love, Happy Together, and 2046, as well as Ang Lee's Lust, Caution and Zhang Yimou's Hero, was listed at number 32.  

International star Chow Yun-Fat (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Anna and the King, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End) was number 49.

Pianist Lang Lang came in at number 57.

To view the full list, visit the Forbes China website. (For Chinese, click here.)

Taiwan actor Lin Chi-ling (who ranked number 7 on the list) graces the cover of the top 100 issue.