Ann Yen is a well-established and talented artist. Her art education started in Shanghai, where she graduated from the Shanghai Drama Academy and worked as a stage and film actress.
She then went to New York in 1981 to study filmmaking at New York University and later worked as a producer for National Geographic Television and the Discovery Channel. But painting has always been Ann Yen’s passion.
During her years in New York, she studied at the renowned Art Students’ League. Ann Yen experiences as a performer and filmmaker enriched her artwork with a unique view on life. She has exhibited in New York, Singapore, Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai.
Her paintings are in private art collections around the world and she has donated much of her income from sales of her artwork to charities. She is the honorary President of the Shanghai American Women’s Club.
祖籍江蘇無錫，出生於上海，美籍華人女畫家、製片人，原美國駐上海總領事季瑞達之妻。她的二舅公是著名教育家顧毓琇。
顏正安1973年起就在上海電影製片廠、南京前線話劇團做演員，1978年畢業於上海戲劇學院表演系其後決定出國留學，在上海外國語大學參加英語培訓，並結識了當時任外教的季瑞達。之後，她以文化部首派公派赴美留學計劃中唯一的一個電影專業留學生身份赴美國留學，獲紐約大學電影學院藝術碩士。並就讀於美國紐約藝術學生同盟油畫專業，曾從師陳丹青、陳逸飛。在紐約期間，她再次與季瑞達相逢，1985年兩人結婚。1986年起在《國家地理》雜誌任欄目編輯。1992年至1993年間曾任新加坡義安理工學院影視系講師。1994年至1999間又任《探索頻道》中方製片人。
丈夫來到中國任外交官後，她便辭去工作隨丈夫一同來到成都。2005年季瑞達出任美國駐上海總領事後，她也隨即出任美國駐滬總領事夫人團主持人、上海美國婦女俱樂部榮譽主席。期間，她還應其在紐約大學電影學院時的師兄李安之邀，在其導演的電影《色，戒》中演出一正在打麻將的貴婦。
另外，作為一名畫家，2000年至今顏正安已在北京、香港、上海、無錫等地開辦過多次個人畫展。