LOS ANGELES, May 11 -- Chinese actress Peng Dan has been awarded the Most Popular Actress in the 2nd Sino-American International TV Festival here on Sunday.

In her acceptance speech, Peng said in fluent English that Los Angeles is her lucky place, where she had got the awards of Best Actress last year and of Best Director in the 10th Sino-American Film Festival last year as well.

Although Peng had had her education in art in the United States, and had performed several times on Broadway and at the Lincoln Center in New York, the Chinese artist said she had always had a "Chinese dream" which was to be awarded in the United States with a TV series about China's stories that she stars in.

It was like a dream come true in Beverly Hills, she said, expressing gratefulness to each director she had worked with in the United States and Hong Kong.

Peng also took the chance to thank her mom as the event coincided with this year's Mother's Day.

After the ceremony, she told reporters that she wished to do more TV series or films that embody the national spirit of China and promote the Chinese culture.