Zhang Ziyi ranks 76th in the poll carried out by Britain's Empire magazine as voted for by its readers, China Radio International reported Tuesday.

The world-famous actress, who starred in Lee An's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," Zhang Yimou's "Hero" and "House of Flying Daggers", is to star in the Columbia Pictures production "Memoirs of a Geisha," to be produced by Steven Spielberg.

(CRI October 8, 2004)