74 Notable alumni of
Beijing Film Academy
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Beijing Film Academy is 209th in the world, 39th in Asia, and 4th in China by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 74 notable alumni from Beijing Film 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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Liu Yifei
- Enrolled in Beijing Film Academy
- Studied in 2002
- Occupations
- modelsingeractorfilm actor
- Biography
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Liu Yifei is a Chinese American actress. She has appeared multiple times on Forbes China Celebrity 100 list and was named one of the New Four Dan actresses of China by Tencent Entertainment in 2009. She is known for her roles in Chinese TV shows such as The Story of a Noble Family, Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, Chinese Paladin, A Dream of Splendor, The Tale of Rose and Meet Yourself. She became known to international audiences as the titular character in the Disney live-action film Mulan.
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Yang Mi
- Enrolled in Beijing Film Academy
- 2005-2009 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- singeractortelevision producer
- Biography
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Yang Mi, also known as Mini Yang, is a Chinese actress and singer. She began her career as a child actress in Tang Ming Huang (1990) and transitioned to adult roles in the 2000s, gaining recognition with Wang Zhaojun (2007), which earned her a Best Actress nomination at the 24th China TV Golden Eagle Awards. She further rose to prominence with supporting roles in The Return of the Condor Heroes (2006) and Chinese Paladin 3 (2009).
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Jing Tian
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Jing Tian is a Chinese actress. She graduated from the Beijing Dance Academy and Beijing Film Academy.
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Yang Zi
- Enrolled in Beijing Film Academy
- Studied in 2010-2014
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Yang Zi, also known as Andy Yang, is a Chinese actress and singer. Known for her roles in both film and television, she has received several accolades. Yang has ranked among china's most influential and highest paid actresses and was named as one of the Four Dan Actresses of the post 90s generation by Southern Metropolis Daily. Yang was listed by Forbes as an honoree on the Forbes China 30 under 30 list in 2017 and on the Forbes China Celebrity 100 list in 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2021. In 2020, Forbes also named her as one of the most influential star in Asia on their Asia's 100 Digital Star list.
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Zhao Wei
- Occupations
- film directorsingeractorfilm actor
- Biography
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Zhao Wei, also known as Vicky or Vicki Zhao, is a Chinese actress, singer, filmmaker, and businesswoman. Regarded as one of China's Four Dan Actresses, she rose to fame for her role in the television series My Fair Princess (1998–1999), followed by such popular dramas and films as Romance in the Rain (2001), Shaolin Soccer (2001), Moment in Peking (2005), Painted Skin (2008), Mulan (2009), Dearest (2014), for which she won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress, Lost in Hong Kong (2015) and Tiger Mom (2015). Zhao made her directorial debut with So Young (2013), which is a commercial and critical success. She is also a singer with 7 albums and the second largest shareholder of Alibaba Pictures. Zhao ranked 80th on Forbes China Celebrity 100 list in 2013, 22nd in 2014, 7th in 2015, and 28th in 2017.
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Ai Weiwei
- Enrolled in Beijing Film Academy
- Studied in 1978
- Occupations
- film directorsculptorarchitectsocial activistartist
- Biography
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Ai Weiwei is a Chinese contemporary artist, documentarian, and activist. Ai grew up in the far northwest of China, where he lived under harsh conditions due to his father's exile. As an activist, he has been openly critical of the Chinese government and its stance on democracy and human rights. He investigated government corruption and cover-ups, in particular the Sichuan schools corruption scandal following the collapse of "tofu-dreg schools" in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. In April 2011, Ai Weiwei was arrested at Beijing Capital International Airport for "economic crimes", and detained for 81 days without charge. Ai Weiwei emerged as a figure in Chinese cultural development, an architect of Chinese modernism, and a prominent political commentator.
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Huang Xiaoming
- Enrolled in Beijing Film Academy
- Studied in 2000
- Occupations
- singertelevision actormodel
- Biography
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Huang Xiaoming or Mark Huang is a Chinese actor and singer. Huang rose to prominence for playing Emperor Wu of Han in the television series The Prince of Han Dynasty (2001), followed by popular series such as The Return of the Condor Heroes (2006), Shanghai Bund (2007), The Patriot Yue Fei (2013), Cruel Romance (2015), Nirvana in Fire 2 (2017), Winter Begonia (2020), as well as films The Message (2009), The Last Tycoon (2012), and American Dreams in China (2013).
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Leo Wu
- Occupations
- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Wu Lei, also known as Leo Wu, is a Chinese actor. He started appearing in commercials at the age of three. In 2007, he made his acting debut as Nezha in the series The Legend and the Hero. He is known for his supporting roles in Nirvana in Fire (2015) and The Whirlwind Girl (2015) and for his starring roles in Fight Breaks Sphere (2018), Tomb of the Sea (2018), The Long Ballad (2021), and Love like The Galaxy (2022). Wu ranked 63rd on Forbes China Celebrity 100 list in 2017, 29th in 2019 and 47th in 2020.
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Zhang Yimou
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directorcinematographerfilm produceractor
- Biography
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Zhang Yimou is a Chinese filmmaker. A leading figure of China's Fifth Generation directors, he is considered as one of the most successful filmmakers in the world.
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Alyssa Chia
- Occupations
- television presentertelevision actorvoice actoractorfilm actor
- Biography
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Alyssa Chia Ching-wen is a Taiwanese actress and television host. She is known for her roles in television series such as the period dramas The Prince of Han Dynasty (2001), The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber (2002) and Lady Wu: The First Empress (2003), as well as the contemporary social realist series The World Between Us (2019). For her role in The World Between Us, Chia won her first Best Leading Actress in a TV Series award at the 2019 Golden Bell Awards. Two years later, Chia went on to win a Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress for the psychological drama film The Falls (2021), directed by Chung Mong-hong.
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Guan Xiaotong
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Guan Xiaotong is a Chinese actress and singer. She is known for her roles in films The Left Ear, Shadow, and in the television series To Be a Better Man. Guan was twice named one of the New Four Dan Actresses by Sohu and by CCTV-6.
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Wu Jinyan
- Enrolled in Beijing Film Academy
- Studied in 2009-2013
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Wu Jinyan is a Chinese actress. She is best known for her roles in television series Beauties at the Crossfire (2013), Story of Yanxi Palace (2018), The Legend of Haolan (2019), and The Double (2024).
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Zhou Dongyu
- Occupations
- modelactor
- Biography
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Zhou Dongyu is a Chinese actress. She rose to fame for her role in Zhang Yimou's film Under the Hawthorn Tree (2010). She is also known for her roles in Soul Mate (2016), for which she won the Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress, Us and Them (2018), and Better Days (2019), for which she won both the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress and Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress.
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Li Xian
- Occupations
- film actoractortelevision actor
- Biography
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Li Xian is a Chinese actor, known for his roles in the films Feng Shui (2012) and Who Sleeps My Bro (2016), as well as the TV dramas Tientsin Mystic (2017), Go Go Squid! (2019), Flourished Peony (2025) and In the Name of Blossom (2025). He ranked 19th on the 2020 Forbes China Celebrity 100 list.
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Luo Jin
- Occupations
- television actoropera singersingeractor
- Biography
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Luo Jin is a Chinese actor and singer. He graduated from Beijing Film Academy in 2006.
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Wang Junkai
- Enrolled in Beijing Film Academy
- Studied in 2017
- Occupations
- actorsingertelevision actor
- Biography
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Wang Junkai, also known as Karry Wang, is a Chinese singer and actor. He was a trainee of TF Family since 2010 and debuted as the leader of TFBoys in 2013. He is estimated to have a personal net worth of 248 million yuan (US$36 million) as of December 2016.
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Gülnezer Bextiyar
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Gülnezer Bextiyar, also known by her pinyin transliteration name Gulinazha or its diminutive form Nazha, is a Chinese actress and model who graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 2011.
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Zhang Ruoyun
- Occupations
- television actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Zhang Ruoyun is a Chinese actor. He is known for his leading roles in Chinese television series such as Sparrow, Medical Examiner Dr. Qin, Joy of Life, Sword Snow Stride and Ordinary Greatness.
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Shawn Dou
- Occupations
- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Shawn Dou is a Chinese Canadian actor best known for his role Laosan in film Under the Hawthorn Tree (2010) and Yan Xun in costume drama Princess Agents (2017). He is married to Laurinda Ho, daughter of Macau casino tycoon Stanley Ho.
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Zhu Yilong
- Occupations
- singeractortelevision actor
- Biography
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Zhu Yilong is a Chinese actor. He first gained recognition in television series such as Guardian (2018), The Story of Minglan (2018), Reunion: The Sound of the Providence (2020), and The Rebel (2021). Zhu is best known for his performance as Mo Sanmei in the drama film Lighting Up the Stars (2022), for which he won the Best Actor awards at the 35th Golden Rooster Awards and 37th Hundred Flowers Awards. He continued to star in high-profile films including Lost in the Stars (2022) and Only the River Flows (2023), the latter of which premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.
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Huang Shengyi
- Occupations
- modelsingerentrepreneuractor
- Biography
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Huang Shengyi, also known as Eva Huang, is a Chinese actress and singer.
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Chen Kun
- Occupations
- singertelevision actorwriterfilm actorphilanthropist
- Biography
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Chen Kun, sometimes credited as Aloys Chen, is a Chinese actor, singer and producer. He rose to fame for the television series Love Story in Shanghai (2001) and The Story of a Noble Family (2003). He gained critical acclaim for the films The Knot (2006) and Painted Skin (2008). His other notable works include films Flying Swords of Dragon Gate (2011), Mojin: The Lost Legend (2015) and Chongqing Hot Pot (2016), as well as television series The Rise of Phoenixes (2018) and The Wind Blows From Longxi (2022).
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Ma Tianyu
- Occupations
- actorsingertelevision actor
- Biography
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Ma Tianyu, also known as Ray Ma, is a Chinese singer and actor. He graduated from the Beijing Film Academy.
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Chen Kaige
- Occupations
- actorscreenwriterdirectorwriterfilm director
- Biography
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Chen Kaige is a Chinese filmmaker. A leading figure of the fifth generation of Chinese directors, Chen is known for his visual flair and epic storytelling. For Farewell My Concubine (1993), Chen became the first Chinese director to win the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Zhou Ye
- Occupations
- film actor
- Biography
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Zhou Ye is a Chinese actress. She is best known for her roles in the films Better Days (2019) and Moments We Shared (2024), and the series Word of Honor (2021), Back from the Brink (2023), Scent of Time (2023), Love Me, Love My Voice (2023), Everyone Loves Me (2024), and Legend of the Female General (2025).
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Yao Chen
- Enrolled in Beijing Film Academy
- Studied in 1999-2003
- Occupations
- film actoractorstage actor
- Biography
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Yao Chen is a Chinese actress and philanthropist. She achieved early success with her role in the sitcom My Own Swordsman (2006) and went on to star in the television series Lurk (2008), Divorce Lawyers (2014), and All Is Well (2019). Her notable film credits include Caught in the Web (2012), Firestorm (2013), Lost, Found (2018), and Send Me to the Clouds (2019).
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Jia Zhangke
- Occupations
- actorscreenwriterfilm screenwriterfilm actorfilm director
- Biography
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Jia Zhangke is a Chinese filmmaker. Jia gained fame for his Hometown Trilogy, Xiao Wu, Platform, and Unknown Pleasures, and rose from an underground filmmaker to a leading figure of China’s Sixth Generation of directors. Jia won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for Still Life, the Leopard of Honour at the Locarno Film Festival in 2010, and the Carrosse d'Or lifetime achievement award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015. In 2017, Jia founded Pingyao International Film Festival.
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Huang Bo
- Occupations
- singerfilm directortelevision actorvoice actoractor
- Biography
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Huang Bo is a Chinese actor, film director, singer and the current vice-chairman of China Film Association. After unsuccessfully pursuing a singing career for many years, he rose to fame with the surprise hit Crazy Stone (2006), and went on to build a successful film career throughout the 2010s, becoming known for his grassroots, street-smart comedic roles. Huang ranked 34th on Forbes China Celebrity 100 list in 2013, 62nd in 2014, 22nd in 2015, 30th in 2017, 2nd in 2019, 52nd in 2020.
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Yu Nan
- Occupations
- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Yu Nan is a Chinese actress. Born in Dalian, Yu Nan studied at the Beijing Film Academy, where she graduated in 1999.
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Wang Luodan
- Occupations
- actorsinger
- Biography
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Wang Luodan is a Chinese actress. She rose to fame with the TV series Struggle (2007), followed by TV series My Youthfulness (2009) and A Story of Lala's Promotion (2010). Her notable films include Driverless (2010), Caught in the Web (2012), for which she won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actress, and The Dead End (2015).
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Yuan Shanshan
- Occupations
- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Yuan Shanshan also known as Mabel Yuan is a Chinese actress and singer. She is noted for her roles as in the Gong series: Palace II (2012) and Palace III (2013); as well as Swordsman (2013) and Jian Bing Man (2015).
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Jiang Qinqin
- Occupations
- actorsinger
- Biography
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Jiang Qinqin is a Chinese actress. Early in her career, she was credited as Shui Ling (水灵; 水靈), a stage name given by Taiwanese writer Chiung Yao.
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Yin Zheng
- Occupations
- actorsinger
- Biography
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Tan Junpeng, known by his stage name Yin Zheng (Chinese: 尹正; pinyin: Yǐn Zhèng), is a Chinese actor. He is known for his roles in Love Me, If You Dare, Goodbye Mr. Loser, Sparrow, Original Sin and Winter Begonia.
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Zhang Fengyi
- Occupations
- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Zhang Fengyi is a Chinese actor best known for his role as "Duan Xiaolou" in Farewell My Concubine (1993), Jing Ke in The Emperor and the Assassin (1998), and Cao Cao in Red Cliff (2008–2009).
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Du Chun
- Occupations
- television producertelevision actoractorfilm actor
- Biography
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Du Chun is a Chinese actor.
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Jiang Yiyan
- Occupations
- actorsinger
- Biography
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Jiang Yiyan is a Chinese actress and singer.
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Huang Mengying
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Huang Mengying, also known as Maggie Huang, is a Chinese actress who graduated from the Beijing Film Academy. She rose to fame for her role as Sujin in Eternal Love (2017), and gained increased recognition for her supporting roles in Princess Agents and Lost Love in Times.
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Zhang Tian'ai
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Zhang Tian'ai, also known by her English name Crystal Zhang, is a Chinese actress and model. She is best known for her breakout role in the 2015 hit web-drama Go Princess Go.
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Lou Ye
- Occupations
- film producerscreenwriterfilm director
- Biography
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Lou Ye, born 1965, is a Chinese filmmaker. A leading figure of the Sixth Generation" directors, Lou is known for his art-house vérité films about modern China, which often run afoul of Chinese censors. In June 2018, Lou became a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Jiang Wenli
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directorproduceractor
- Biography
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Jiang Wenli is a Chinese actress, director, producer, and screenwriter. A native of Tianjin, she graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1992. Li ranked 52nd on Forbes China Celebrity 100 list in 2014. In 2008, she became the first Chinese actress to win the "Grand Slam", after winning "Best Actress" trophy at the three biggest Chinese-language television awards including the Feitian Award, the Golden Eagle Award, and the Magnolia Award.
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Hai Qing
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Hai Qing is a Chinese actress who has appeared in such films as Sacrifice (2010), Finding Mr. Right (2013), Operation Red Sea (2018), and Return to Dust (2022). For her role in the 2009–10 television series A Beautiful Daughter-in-law Era, she was nominated for numerous TV awards, including a Flying Apsaras Award for Best Actress and a Golden Eagle Award for Best Actress, which she both won. Hai ranked 36th on the Forbes China Celebrity 100 list in 2013, 46th in 2014, and 57th in 2015. In 2015, she became the first UN Women National Ambassador for China.
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Qiao Zhenyu
- Occupations
- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Qiao Zhenyu is a Chinese actor who is a graduate of the Beijing Dance Academy.
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Hu Bo
- Occupations
- novelistscreenwriterfilm director
- Biography
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Hu Bo, also known by his pen name Hu Qian (Chinese: 胡遷), was a Chinese novelist and film director, best known for his only feature film An Elephant Sitting Still (2018), which garnered widespread praise from critics. He died by suicide on 12 October 2017 at the age of 29, soon after he finished that film.
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Wang Quan'an
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directorfilm editorfilm produceractor
- Biography
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Wang Quan'an is a Sixth Generation Chinese film director. Wang was born in Yan'an, China. He graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1991. He had a ten-year relationship with actress and muse Yu Nan, which ended in 2009.
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Huang Haibo
- Occupations
- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Huang Haibo is a Chinese actor of Manchu descent, known for his roles in film The Dream of A Young Soldier (2001), and in television series Chasing, A Beautiful Daughter-in-law Era, Forever Designation and Let's Get Married!. He was blacklisted in China for a prostitution scandal in 2014.
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Wang Xiaoshuai
- Occupations
- screenwriterdirectorfilm directorfilm produceractor
- Biography
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Wang Xiaoshuai is a Chinese film director, screenwriter, and occasional actor. He is commonly grouped under the loose association of filmmakers known as the "Sixth Generation" of the Cinema of China. Like others in this generation, and in contrast with earlier Chinese filmmakers who produced mostly historical drama, Wang proposed a “new urban Chinese cinema has been mainly concerned with bearing witness of a fast- paced transforming China and producing a localized critique of globalization.”
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Tian Zhuangzhuang
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- screenwriterfilm directorfilm produceractor
- Biography
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Tian Zhuangzhuang is a Chinese film director, producer and actor.
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Lu Chuan
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Lu Chuan is a Chinese filmmaker. One of China's Sixth Generation directors, he is known for his films Kekexili: Mountain Patrol (2004), City of Life and Death (2009), and The Last Supper (2012).
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Yao Xingtong
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Yao Xingtong is a Chinese actress. She is also known as Helen Yao and Anna Yao. She is fluent in French and English.
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Ning Hao
- Occupations
- film actorscreenwriterfilm director
- Biography
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Ning Hao is a Chinese film director. Ning studied at the Taiyuan Film School, where he majored in scenic design. He later transferred to the Art Department of Peking University. Ning eventually graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 2003 with a degree from the Photography Department.
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Miao Pu
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Miao Pu is a Chinese actress.
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Wu Ershan
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Wuershan is a Chinese film director of Mongol descent, who was born in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia on June 10, 1972.
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Gao Xixi
- Occupations
- television producerdirectortelevision director
- Biography
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Gao Xixi is a Chinese television director and producer, famous for directing a number of commercially successful Chinese television series.
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Zu Feng
- Occupations
- actortelevision actorfilm director
- Biography
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Zu Feng is a Chinese actor and director. Zu first attracted attention in 2008 for his role as Li Ya in the successful TV drama Lurk. He has earned and been nominated for numerous awards during his career, including winning the Best New Actor Award at the 2011 Chinese Young Generation Film Forum for his role in The Founding of a Party, Society Awardat the Golden Phoenix Awards, and two Huading Award for Best Supporting Actor.
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Frant Gwo
- Occupations
- film producerscreenwriterfilm director
- Biography
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Guo Fan, credited as Frant Gwo in Latin script, is a Chinese filmmaker. Gwo debuted as a director in 2011 with the film Lee's Adventure, and then directed the box-office hit My Old Classmate in 2014. In 2019, he directed China's first big-budget science fiction film, The Wandering Earth, which became one of the highest-grossing Chinese films of all time, garnering national acclaim. Its sequel, The Wandering Earth 2, was first released in China globally on 22 January 2023.
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Xiaolu Guo
- Occupations
- screenwriterwriterfilm director
- Biography
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Xiaolu Guo FRSL is a Chinese-born British author, filmmaker and academic. Her writing and films explore migration, alienation, memory, personal journeys, feminism, translation and transnational identities.
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Pema Tseden
- Occupations
- screenwriteruniversity teacherfilm directorwriterfilm screenwriter
- Biography
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Pema Tseden, also called Wanma Caidan (simplified Chinese: 万玛才旦; traditional Chinese: 萬瑪才旦; pinyin: Wàn mǎ cái dàn; December 1969 – 8 May 2023) was a Tibetan film director and screenwriter. He was a professor at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou and a member of the Film Directors Guild of China, China Film Association, and Chinese Film Literature Association. He is known for making many films entirely in Tibetan language and presenting a more realistic depiction of Tibetan life as opposed to the exoticism often associated with the region.
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Yu Dong
- Occupations
- entrepreneurfilm producer
- Biography
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Yu Dong, also known as Don Yu, is a Chinese businessman, film producer and presenter. He is also as the chairman of Bona Film Group, a production company and film distributor, which has distributed and co-produced over 100 Chinese-language films, such as Confession of Pain, Dragon Tiger Gate, and Flash Point.
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Wu Tianming
- Occupations
- screenwriterdirectorfilm directorfilm produceractor
- Biography
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Wu Tianming was a Chinese film director and producer who was considered one of the leading "Fourth Generation" directors. He is best known for his film The King of Masks (1995).
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Li Shaohong
- Occupations
- film director
- Biography
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Li Shaohong is a Chinese film and television director and producer. She is considered a member of the Fifth Generation movement, and China's top woman director. Her films have won multiple awards in China and abroad, including the Golden Montgolfiere at the 1992 Three Continents Festival (for Bloody Morning), and the Silver Bear at the 1995 Berlin International Film Festival (for Blush).
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Peng Xiaolian
- Occupations
- screenwriterdirectorfilm director
- Biography
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Peng Xiaolian was a Chinese film director, scriptwriter and author. A graduate of the 1982 class of the Beijing Film Academy, she was a member of the Fifth Generation, although her style differed from the other members of this group. She is known for her series of films about Shanghai, including Once Upon a Time in Shanghai (1998), which won the Best Picture Award of the Huabiao Awards; Shanghai Story (2004), which won four Golden Rooster Awards including Best Director and Best Picture; and Shanghai Rumba (2006), based on the romance of the movie star couple Zhao Dan and Huang Zongying.
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Zhang Yuan
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Zhang Yuan is a Chinese film director who has been described by film scholars as a pioneering member of China's Sixth Generation of filmmakers. He and his films have won ten awards out of seventeen nominations received at international film festivals.
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Xie Fei
- Occupations
- screenwriterdirectorfilm director
- Biography
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Xie Fei is a Chinese film director, screenwriter, producer, film professor and film critic.
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Hu Mei
- Occupations
- television directorpoliticianfilm director
- Biography
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Hu Mei is a Chinese film director, television director and producer.
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Wang Gongliang
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Wang Gongliang; born Wang Keda (Chinese: 王柯达), is a Chinese singer, actor and model.
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Dayyan Eng
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Dayyan Eng, known as Wu Shixian in China, born in Taiwan in 1975, is a Chinese-American filmmaker of Chinese, English, and Persian ancestry, who grew up in three continents. He studied film arts at the University of Washington and transferred to the Beijing Film Academy, where he finished his undergraduate studies in directing. Eng started his career directing numerous TV commercials and music videos for the Asian market before he segued into films. Eng first won awards and recognition at the Venice Film Festival, Sundance and Cannes film festivals for his film Bus 44, and later for his acclaimed romantic-comedy Waiting Alone. Eng is the first American to direct a Chinese feature film; the first foreign director invited into the China Film Director's Guild; and made history as the first and only foreign director to date to have a film nominated for Best Picture at the Chinese academy awards. In addition, Eng's films have also garnered accolades and awards for the actors he's worked with, which have included top stars in Asia and Hollywood.
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Matt William Knowles
- Occupations
- film actor
- Biography
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Matthew Knowles, known professionally as Matt William Knowles or Ma Tai, is an American actor known for his work in multiple Chinese films and television series such as Asura, Love Me If You Dare, Deng Xiao Ping at History's Crossroad, Red Sorghum, Eastern Battlefield and Red Star Over China.
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Ding Sheng
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directorfilm editor
- Biography
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Ding Sheng is a Chinese film director and screenwriter. Born in Qingdao, Shandong in 1970, his directorial works include Little Big Soldier, Police Story 2013 and Railroad Tigers (2016), all starring Jackie Chan.
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Wang Chao
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Wang Chao is a Chinese film director and screenwriter, sometimes considered part of the loosely defined "sixth generation." Wang began his career serving as an assistant director to the fifth generation auteur, Chen Kaige, working with the elder director on epics like Farewell My Concubine and The Emperor and the Assassin. At the same time, he began to write fiction including several short stories and novellas, one of which would later go on to serve as the basis of Wang's directorial debut, The Orphan of Anyang.
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Liu Jiang
- Occupations
- television producertelevision directorfilm director
- Biography
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Liu Jiang is a Chinese television director, producer and screenwriter best known for his work Before Dawn, A Beautiful Daughter-in-law Era and Let's get married.
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Fan Popo
- Years
- 1985-.. (age 41)
- Occupations
- writervideomakerfilm director
- Biography
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Fan Popo is a Chinese filmmaker, film critic, and LGBT activist. Fan's documentaries have focused on performance-based activism (New Beijing, New Marriage, and The VaChina Monologues) and coming out as LGBT in the Chinese filial context (Chinese Closet and Papa Rainbow). He is known for the documentary Mama Rainbow and his well-publicized legal case against the Chinese state media regulator over censorship of it.
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Zhang Nuanxin
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Zhang Nuanxin was a Chinese film director, and a leading figure of the Fourth Generation of Chinese directors.
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Liu Yonghong
- Occupations
- cinematographer
- Biography
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Liu Yonghong is a Chinese cinematographer, based in Beijing. His work was recognized at the 23rd Manaki Brothers International Film Camera Festival, for his work as director of photography on Seafood (2001). As well as at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, for his work as director of photography on Blind Shaft (2003).
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Chenyang Zhao
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- film directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Chenyang Zhao, Beijing Film Academy graduate, a Chinese director, and screenwriter. Some of Zhao's major works are Ten Month Pregnancy, The Lying Lover, Love till Eternity, AA lifestyle, The Marriages in Laomi Family, Companionate Couple, Marry to The West, Pretty Li Hui Zhen and so on. Zhao's artistic style focuses on the realistic theme of people's bittersweet, then turn it into the light and happy urban love stories in a bold attempt. Chenyang Zhao also has a great desire to support the charity and encouraging the Sino-American Cooperation with her own brand KZ Grand Inc.
