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.

  1. Zhang Ziyi

    Zhang Ziyi
    Born in
    China Flag China
    Years
    1979-.. (age 45)
    Occupations
    dancerstage actormodelfilm actoractor
    Biography

    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.

  2. Victoria Song

    Victoria Song
    Born in
    China Flag China
    Years
    1987-.. (age 37)
    Occupations
    dancermodelsingeractor
    Biography

    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).

  3. Liu Shishi

    Liu Shishi
    Born in
    China Flag China
    Years
    1987-.. (age 37)
    Occupations
    actorsingerballet dancer
    Biography

    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.

  4. Li Yi Tong

    Li Yi Tong
    Born in
    China Flag China
    Years
    1990-.. (age 34)
    Occupations
    actor
    Biography

    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.

  5. Yao Chen

    Yao Chen
    Born in
    China Flag China
    Years
    1979-.. (age 45)
    Enrolled in Beijing Dance Academy
    1993-1997 studied Chinese folk art
    Occupations
    actorfilm actorstage actor
    Biography

    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."

  6. Huang Xuan

    Huang Xuan
    Born in
    China Flag China
    Years
    1985-.. (age 39)
    Occupations
    actorfilm actortelevision actor
    Biography

    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).

  7. Ayanga

    Ayanga
    Born in
    China Flag China
    Years
    1989-.. (age 35)
    Occupations
    singeractorrecording artist
    Biography

    Ayanga is a Chinese theatre actor, singer, and songwriter of Mongolian ethnic background from Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China.

  8. Wang Yuwen

    Wang Yuwen
    Born in
    China Flag China
    Years
    1997-.. (age 27)
    Occupations
    film actor
    Biography

    Wang Yuwen is a Chinese actress.

  9. Li Cunxin

    Li Cunxin
    Born in
    China Flag China
    Years
    1961-.. (age 63)
    Occupations
    artistic directorchoreographerballet dancer
    Biography

    Li Cunxin is a Chinese-Australian former ballet dancer turned stockbroker. He is currently the artistic director of the Queensland Ballet in Brisbane, Australia.

  10. Wan Peng

    Wan Peng
    Born in
    China Flag China
    Years
    1996-.. (age 28)
    Occupations
    actor
    Biography

    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).

  11. Qiao Zhenyu

    Qiao Zhenyu
    Born in
    China Flag China
    Years
    1978-.. (age 46)
    Occupations
    television actoractor
    Biography

    Qiao Zhenyu is a Chinese actor who is a graduate of the Beijing Dance Academy.

  12. Zheng Yunlong

    Zheng Yunlong
    Born in
    China Flag China
    Years
    1990-.. (age 34)
    Occupations
    singeractor
    Biography

    Zheng Yunlong is a Chinese actor and singer. He has appeared in a few Chinese musicals.

  13. Zhao Tao

    Zhao Tao
    Born in
    China Flag China
    Years
    1977-.. (age 47)
    Occupations
    actor
    Biography

    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.

  14. Zhang Jigang

    Zhang Jigang
    Born in
    China Flag China
    Years
    1958-.. (age 66)
    Occupations
    choreographer
    Biography

    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.

  15. Chen Ailian

    Chen Ailian
    Born in
    China Flag China
    Years
    1939-2020 (aged 81)
    Occupations
    dancer
    Biography

    Chen Ailian was a Chinese dancer.