Pan made his acting debut in
Romance of the Three Kingdoms, playing Sun Xiu, son of
Sun Quan and the third Emperor of
Eastern Wu. Pan's first film role was uncredited appearance in the film
The Story of Yi Bo (1994). In 2000, Pan played the lead role in Lu Xuechang's
A Lingering Face, which earned him a Best New Performer Award at the
Beijing College Student Film Festival. In 2001, Pan co-starred with
Yuan Quan in
Huo Jianqi's
A Love of Blueness, based on the novel
Performance Art by
Fang Fang, for which he received the
Best Actor Award nominations at the
Golden Rooster Award and
Hundred Flowers Awards. At the same year, he won the
Golden Phoenix Award for Male Actor. Pan portrayed Fang Yi'an, the son of prime minister
Fang Xuanling, in the historical television series
Love Legend of the Tang Dynasty. Pan won the TV Film Best Actor Award at the
Beijing College Student Film Festival for his performance in
Desire For Fired, and was nominated for Best Supporting Actor Award at the
Hundred Flowers Awards for his performance in
Life Show. Pan earned his second
Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actor nomination for his performance as Lin Wei in
Extreme Danger (2002). That same year, he starred in
Stormy Sea, and won the Outstanding New Actor Award at the
Huabiao Awards. In 2004, Pan was cast in the historical television series
The Legendary Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, playing the
son of
Chen Baoguo's and
Xu Fan's characters. In 2007, Pan appeared as Zhu Huifang, a
Beijing Opera actor who is
Mei Lanfang's cousin, in
Chen Kaige's film
Forever Enthralled. Pan had a cameo appearance in
Looking for Jackie, a 2009 film starring
Zhang Yishan and
Jackie Chan. He was cast in the comedy film ''
All's Well, Ends Well 2010'', in which he played a couple with Xiong Dailin. In 2010, Pan portrayed
Cai Hesen, who was an early leader of the
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and a friend and comrade of
Mao Zedong, in the film
The Founding of a Party. In 2013, Pan reunited with co-star
Zhang Jingchu in the
romantic comedy film
The Old Cinderella. In 2015, Pan was cast in the film
Blind Spot, playing Chen Wen, a psychopathic teacher. In 2016, Pan was cast in the television series
How Much Love Can Be Repeated. On August 30, 2017, the web series
Day and Night was released on
Youku, in which Pan played the lead roles Guan Hongfeng and Guan Hongyu. ==Personal life==