Yu Feihong (Chinese: 俞飞鸿; born 15 January 1971), also known as Faye Yu, is a Chinese actress and an occasional film director and producer, best known in the west for Wayne Wang's award-winning American films A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2007) and The Joy Luck Club (1992).
Yu was born into a senior intellectual family in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, on 15 January 1971.
She followed up on its success with Yuen Woo-ping's 1999 wuxia TV drama Legend of Dagger Li, a Mainland-Taiwan co-production based on the popular Xiaoli Feidao novels.
Between 2005 and 2008 she only chose 1 acting project, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, which briefly brought her back to the U.S. and reunited her with Wang.
She spent most of her years then working on Eternal Beloved, her directorial debut that she also wrote (based on a novel), starred in, and produced.