15 Notable alumni of
Beijing Dance Academy
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Beijing Dance Academy is 1135th in the world, 242nd in Asia, and 22nd in China by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 15 notable alumni from Beijing Dance Academy sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Zhang Ziyi
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- dancerstage actormodelfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Zhang Ziyi is a Chinese actress and model. She is regarded as one of the Four Dan Actresses of China. After her breakout role in Zhang Yimou's The Road Home (1999), she gained international recognition for her performance in Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), which was nominated for 10 Academy Awards. Zhang has also appeared in Rush Hour 2 (2001), Hero (2002), and House of Flying Daggers (2004). Her most critically acclaimed works are Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), which earned her nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role; and The Grandmaster (2013), for which she won 12 different Best Actress awards to become the most awarded Chinese actress for a single film.
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Victoria Song
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- dancermodelsingeractor
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Song Qian, known professionally as Victoria or Victoria Song, is a Chinese singer, dancer, actress, model, host and author known for her work as the leader of South Korean girl group f(x).
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Liu Shishi
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- actorsingerballet dancer
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Liu Shishi, also known as Cecilia Liu, is a Chinese actress best known for portraying Long Kui in the television series Chinese Paladin 3 and Ruoxi in the Chinese time-travel drama Scarlet Heart and Imperial Doctress. She is also known as one of the New Four Dan Actresses.
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Li Yi Tong
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- actor
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Li Yitong is a Chinese actress and singer. She is best known for her roles as Wan Mei, an assassin in the 2018 Chinese television series Bloody Romance, Huang Rong in The Legend of the Condor Heroes (2017 TV series), Lu Wenxi (Abao) in the 2019 Chinese television series Royal Nirvana, and Fu Rou in the 2021 Chinese television series Court Lady.
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Yao Chen
- Enrolled in Beijing Dance Academy
- 1993-1997 studied Chinese folk art
- Occupations
- actorfilm actorstage actor
- Biography
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Yao Chen is a Chinese actress and philanthropist. In 2014, Time named Yao as one of the most influential people on their Time 100 list. As of 2014, she is listed as the 83rd most powerful woman in the world by Forbes. Several English-language media outlets have nicknamed her "China's answer to Angelina Jolie."
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Huang Xuan
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- actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Huang Xuan is a Chinese actor. He is best known for his roles in Blind Massage (2014), The Legend of Mi Yue (2015), The Interpreter (2016) and Extraordinary Mission (2017).
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Ayanga
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- singeractorrecording artist
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Ayanga is a Chinese theatre actor, singer, and songwriter of Mongolian ethnic background from Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China.
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Wang Yuwen
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- film actor
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Wang Yuwen is a Chinese actress.
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Li Cunxin
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- artistic directorchoreographerballet dancer
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Li Cunxin is a Chinese-Australian former ballet dancer turned stockbroker. He is currently the artistic director of the Queensland Ballet in Brisbane, Australia.
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Wan Peng
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- actor
- Biography
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Wan Peng is a Chinese actress under Easy Entertainment. She made her debut with the drama When We Were Young (2018), and gained significant fame for her performances in My Girlfriend is an Alien (2019), First Romance (2020), Crush (2021) and My Girlfriend is an Alien 2 (2022).
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Qiao Zhenyu
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- television actoractor
- Biography
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Qiao Zhenyu is a Chinese actor who is a graduate of the Beijing Dance Academy.
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Zheng Yunlong
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- singeractor
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Zheng Yunlong is a Chinese actor and singer. He has appeared in a few Chinese musicals.
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Zhao Tao
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- actor
- Biography
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Zhao Tao is a Chinese actress. She works in China and occasionally Europe, and has appeared in 10 films and several shorts since starting her career in 1999. She is best known for her collaborations with her husband, director Jia Zhangke, including Platform (2000) and Still Life (2006). With Shun Li and the Poet (2011), she became the first Asian actress to win a prize at David di Donatello. She received two Golden Horse Award nominations for Mountains May Depart (2015) and Ash Is Purest White (2018). In 2020, The New York Times ranked her #8 on its list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century.
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Zhang Jigang
- Occupations
- choreographer
- Biography
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Zhang Jigang (simplified Chinese: 张继钢; traditional Chinese: 張繼鋼; pinyin: Zhāng Jìgāng, pronounced [tʂáŋ tɕî káŋ]; (born December 25, 1958) is an internationally acclaimed Chinese choreographer and a Lieutenant General in the People's Liberation Army. He was the former director of the Song and Dance Ensemble with the People's Liberation Army before promotion in 2006. Zhang Jigang now holds the highest non-combat military officer rank in China.
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Chen Ailian
- Occupations
- dancer
- Biography
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Chen Ailian was a Chinese dancer.
