61 Notable alumni of
Central Academy of Drama
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The Central Academy of Drama is 239th in the world, 46th in Asia, and 6th in China by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 61 notable alumni from the Central Academy of Drama 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
- Occupations
- stage actorfilm directoractormodelfilm actor
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Zhang Ziyi, sometimes credited Ziyi Zhang, is a Chinese actress, model, and former dancer. Known for playing independent and strong-willed characters, she is the recipient of various accolades. Born and raised in Beijing, Zhang was admitted to the Central Academy of Drama in 1996. That year, she made her acting debut in the television film Touching Starlight (1996). After her breakout role in Zhang Yimou's The Road Home (1999), which won her the Best Actress Award at the 2000 Hundred Flowers Awards, she gained international recognition for her performance in the wuxia martial arts film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000).
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Yang Yang
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- film actortelevision actordancersinger
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Yang Yang is a Chinese actor. He made his acting debut in the Chinese television drama The Dream of Red Mansions (2010). Since then, he has received recognition for his roles in television dramas The Lost Tomb (2015), The Whirlwind Girl (2015), Love O2O (2016), Martial Universe (2018), The King's Avatar (2019), You Are My Glory (2021), Glory of Special Forces (2022), Who Rules The World (2022), Fireworks of My Heart (2023) and films The Left Ear (2015), I Belonged to You (2016), Once Upon a Time (2017), Vanguard (2020).
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Gong Li
- Enrolled in the Central Academy of Drama
- Studied in 1985
- Occupations
- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Gong Li is a Chinese born Singaporean actress. Regarded as one of the best actresses in China today, she is known for her versatility and naturalistic performance. She starred in three of the four Chinese-language films that have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.
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Tiffany Tang
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- actortelevision producer
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Tang Yan, also known as Tiffany Tang, is a Chinese actress and singer. She is known for her roles in the television series Chinese Paladin 3 (2009), My Daughters (2011), Perfect Couple (2014), My Sunshine (2015), The Princess Weiyoung (2016), and Blossoms Shanghai (2023).
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Tang Wei
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- modelactor
- Biography
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Tang Wei is a Chinese actress. She rose to international fame for her role in Golden Lion-winning Lust, Caution (2007) by Ang Lee, and gained further acclaim for her performances in Late Autumn (2010), Finding Mr. Right (2013), The Golden Era (2014), Long Day's Journey into Night (2018), and Decision to Leave (2022). Tang is the first and only non-Korean to be honored as the Best Actress at the Baeksang Art Awards (twice), Blue Dragon Film Awards, Chunsa Film Art Awards and Buil Film Awards. She is also the first Asian actor to have won the Trophée Chopard, which she received at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.
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Jackson Yee
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- singeractortelevision actor
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Jackson Yee is a Chinese actor, singer and dancer. He rose to fame as a member of the Chinese boy band TFBoys since 2013. His single, Li Sao (The Lament) was named "Mandarin Song of the Year" in 2017 by Billboard Radio China. He starred in the TV series The Longest Day in Chang'an (2019) and Forward Forever (2020), and received critical acclaim for the films Better Days (2019), A Little Red Flower (2020), Nice View (2022) and Full River Red (2023).
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Deng Chao
- Enrolled in the Central Academy of Drama
- Studied in 1998-2001
- Occupations
- film directorsingeractortelevision actorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Deng Chao is a Chinese actor and director. Deng received recognition for the television series The Young Emperor (2003) and Happiness as Flowers (2005). He later shifted his focus to films, starring in the box office hits Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010), American Dreams in China (2013), The Dead End (2015), for which he won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor, The Mermaid (2016), Duckweed (2017), and Shadow (2018). He also directed and starred in The Breakup Guru (2014), Devil and Angel (2015) and Looking Up (2019). He was a cast member of variety show Keep Running from 2014 to 2019. He has been a cast member of web show HAHAHAHAHA since 2020.
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Chen Xiao
- Occupations
- singeractortelevision actor
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Chen Xiao is a Chinese actor. He is best known for his roles in TV series Swordsman (2013), Legend of Lu Zhen (2013), The Romance of the Condor Heroes (2014), Who Sleeps My Bro (2015), Nothing Gold Can Stay (2017) and Love Journey (2018).
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Cheng Yi
- Enrolled in the Central Academy of Drama
- Studied in 2008
- Occupations
- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Fu Shiqi, known professionally by his stage name Cheng Yi (Chinese: 成毅), is a Chinese actor and singer. He made his television debut in Chinese television drama Beauty World (2011) and graduated from Central Academy of Drama in 2012. He first gained recognition for his role in Noble Aspirations (2016). He is also known for his roles as Yu Sifeng in Love and Redemption, Ying Yuan in Immortal Samsara and Li Lianhua in Mysterious Lotus Casebook.
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Tong Liya
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- actor
- Biography
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Tong Liya is a Chinese actress of Xibe ethnicity. She first gained recognition in The Queens (2008), followed by roles in the television series Palace (2011), Beijing Love Story (2012), Ordinary World (2015), Nirvana in Fire 2 (2017), Great Expectations (2018), as well as the film How Long Will I Love U (2018).
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Jiang Wen
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- screenwriterfilm screenwriterfilm actorfilm directortelevision actor
- Biography
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Jiang Wen is a Chinese actor, screenwriter, and director. As a director, he is sometimes grouped with the "Sixth Generation" that emerged in the 1990s. Jiang is also well known internationally as an actor, having starred with Gong Li in Zhang Yimou's debut film Red Sorghum (1986), and more recently as Baze Malbus in the Star Wars film Rogue One (2016). He is the older brother of fellow actor Jiang Wu.
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Mao Xiaotong
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- actor
- Biography
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Mao Xiaotong, also known as Rachel Momo, is a Chinese actress. She is best known for her supporting roles in Empresses in the Palace (2012), Love O2O (2016), and The Princess Weiyoung (2016).
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Bai Baihe
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- actor
- Biography
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Bai Baihe is a Chinese actress. She is best known for her roles in such films as Love Is Not Blind, Personal Tailor, Monster Hunt and Go Away Mr. Tumor.
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Zhang Jingchu
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- actor
- Biography
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Zhang Jingchu is a Chinese film actress. Zhang is best known for winning the China Film Media Award Best Actress award for the 2005 film Peacock, which was shown at the Berlin International Film Festival.
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Jin Dong
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- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Jin Dong is a Chinese actor. He is known for his television roles in Legend of Entrepreneurship (2012), The Disguiser (2015), Candle in the Tomb (2016), Surgeons (2017) and The First Half of My Life (2017).
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Liu Ye
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- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
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Liu Ye is a Chinese actor. He made his feature film debut in Postmen in the Mountains (1999), and later on won recognition through critically acclaimed film Lan Yu (2001), which earned him the Best Actor award at the Golden Horse Awards. His other notable works include the film Cock and Bull (2016), as well as the television series Blood Color Romance (2005) and All Quiet in Peking (2014).
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Wang Kai
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- actortelevision actor
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Wang Kai is a Chinese actor. He is known for his television roles in All Quiet in Peking (2014), The Disguiser (2015), Nirvana in Fire (2015), Ode to Joy (2016), When a Snail Falls in Love (2016), Stay With Me (2016), and Like a Flowing River (2018), as well as his film role in The Devotion of Suspect X.
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Zhao Jinmai
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- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Zhao Jinmai is a Chinese actress. She is best known for her roles in the children's films Balala the Fairies: The Magic Trial (2014) and Balala the Fairies: Princess Camellia (2015), the sci-fi film The Wandering Earth (2019), and the drama series Growing Pain (2019), A Little Thing Called First Love (2019), Reset (2022) and Amidst a Snowstorm of Love (2024). She graduated from the Central Academy of Drama in 2024.
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Rosina Lam
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Rosina Lam is a Hong Kong actress currently signed with Shaw Brothers Pictures.
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Xin Zhilei
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- actor
- Biography
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Xin Zhilei is a Chinese actress. She is known for her roles in films Crosscurrent and Brotherhood of Blades II: The Infernal Battlefield, and in TV series Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace (2018), Joy of Life (2019) and Blossoms Shanghai (2023).
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Chen Xingxu
- Occupations
- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Chen Xingxu, also known as Oliver Chen, is a Chinese actor and model. He is known for his roles as Yang Kang in The Legend of the Condor Heroes (2017), Gu Xiaowu / Li Chengyin in Goodbye My Princess (2019), Tan Xuan Lin in Fall In Love (2021), and Shaodian Youqin in The Starry Love (2023).
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Wei Daxun
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- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Wei Daxun is a Chinese actor, singer, and host. Wei ranked 85th on Forbes China Celebrity 100 list in 2019, and 56th in 2020. He graduated from the Central Academy of Drama.
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Tong Yao
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Tong Yao, also known as Tanya Tong, is a Chinese actress, best known in film for portraying Chen Shu in A Big Deal (2011), May in Snowfall in Taipei (2012) and Annie Yang in To Love Somebody (2014), and has received critical acclaim for her television work, particularly as Meng Xizi in Militia Ge Erdan (2012), Zhou Xiaobei in Three Bosom Girls (2014), Song Renping in Like a Flowing River (2018) and Gu Jia in Nothing But Thirty (2020).
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Liang Jie
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Liang Jie is a Chinese actress. She is best known for her roles in the dramas The Eternal Love (2017), Handsome Siblings (2020), and You Are My Destiny (2020).
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Chen Daoming
- Occupations
- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Chen Daoming is a Chinese actor who has starred in various genres of film and television series.
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Hu Jun
- Occupations
- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Hu Jun is a Chinese actor best known for playing dramatic roles in various films and television series. He has acted in a number of Hong Kong films.
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Zhang Hanyu
- Occupations
- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Zhang Hanyu is a Chinese actor. He is known for starring in the films Assembly (2007), The Message (2009), The Chef, the Actor, the Scoundrel (2013), The Taking of Tiger Mountain (2014), Operation Mekong (2016), The Captain (2019), and Chinese Doctors (2021), as well as the television series All Men Are Brothers (2011).
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Vicky Chen
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- film actortelevision actorfilm directoractor
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Vicky Chen Wenqi, better known by her stage name Wen Qi (Chinese: 文淇; pinyin: Wénqí), is a Taiwanese actress. In 2017, she won the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actress for the film The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful and became the second youngest actress who was nominated Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress for the film Angels Wear White when she was 14 years old.
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Qin Hailu
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- screenwriterfilm directorsingeractor
- Biography
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Qin Hailu is a Chinese actress, screenwriter and singer. She has won Best Actress at the Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards, Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award and Golden Bauhinia Awards.
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Yuan Quan
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- singeractor
- Biography
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Yuan Quan, also known as Yolanda Yuan, is a Chinese actress and singer. She graduated from the Central Academy of Drama where she majored in drama.
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Ma Ke
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- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Ma Ke is a Chinese actor.
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Xinyi Zhang
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- actorfilm director
- Biography
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Zhang Xinyi is a Chinese actress and director. She ranked 95th on Forbes China Celebrity 100 list in 2013, 99th in 2014, and 80th in 2015.
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Chen Shu
- Occupations
- actorsinger
- Biography
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Chen Shu is a Chinese singer and actress.
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Zhang Ming'en
- Occupations
- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Zhang Ming'en, is a Chinese actor. He made his official acting debut in 2016 with the tomb-raiding series The Mystic Nine. He has also acted in the series Tientsin Mystic and Nice to Meet You.
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Xia Yu
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- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Xia Yu is a Chinese actor. At the age of 18 years, he rose to international prominence after winning the Best Actor award at the Venice Film Festival in 1994 for his leading role in the film In the Heat of the Sun and became the youngest actor to win that award in the history of the Venice Film Festival.
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Yu Xiaoguang
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- composertelevision actor
- Biography
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Yu Xiaoguang, also known as Ethan Yu, is a Chinese composer and actor. Yu is a former swimmer and sprint canoer. In 2006 he made a crossover from sports to films. Yu made appearances on many television series, most notably My Kung Fu Girlfriend (2006), Fighting in Peking (2009), Mao Anying (2010), The Happy Time of the Spicy and Hot Girlfriend (2012), City and Country Life (2014), and Namchow Mechanic Heroes (2015).
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Chen Hao
- Occupations
- film actormodelsingeractor
- Biography
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Chen Hao is a Chinese actress, singer, and model.
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Zhou Yun
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- actor
- Biography
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Zhou Yun is a Chinese actress.
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Duan Yihong
- Occupations
- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Duan Yihong is a Chinese actor best known for his role as Yuan Lang in Soldiers Sortie (2006), Long Wenzhang in My Chief and My Regiment (2009), and Hei Wa in White Deer Plain (2011).
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Edward Zhang
- Occupations
- television actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Zhang Luyi, also known as Edward Zhang, is a Chinese actor and director.
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Tao Hong
- Occupations
- swimmeractor
- Biography
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Tao Hong is a Chinese actress and former synchronised swimmer. A National Games of China champion, Tao was part of the Chinese national team at several synchronised swimming competitions from 1987 to 1991, including the 1991 World Aquatics Championships.
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Hu Xianxu
- Occupations
- child actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Hu Xianxu is a Chinese actor.
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Wang Qianyuan
- Enrolled in the Central Academy of Drama
- Studied in 1993-1994
- Occupations
- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Wang Qianyuan is a Chinese actor who graduated from the Central Academy of Drama. He won Best Actor at the 23rd Tokyo International Film Festival for his role in the movie, The Piano in a Factory.
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Chen Baoguo
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- film actoractortelevision actor
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Chen Baoguo is a Chinese actor, President of the China Film Performance Society (CFPS) and a Chairman of China TV Artists Association (CTAA) Actor's Committee. He graduated from the Central Academy of Drama in 1977 and has since acted in many films and television series, including The Emperor in Han Dynasty, Da Zhai Men and Rob-B-Hood. He is married to actress Zhao Kui'e (赵奎娥). In 2020, he became the first Chinese actor to win a two-round "Grand Slam", after winning the "Best Actor" award at least twice at the Feitian Award, the Golden Eagle Award and the Magnolia Award.
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Guo Tao
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- film produceractorfilm actorfilm directortelevision actor
- Biography
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Guo Tao is a Chinese actor.
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Liu Yun
- Occupations
- actorperforming artist
- Biography
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Liu Yun is a Chinese actress.
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Zhao Jiamin
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Zhao Jiamin is a Chinese idol singer and actress. She is a former member of the female idol group SNH48, and came in first during SNH48's second general election.
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Gong Beibi
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Beibi Gong is a Chinese film and television actress. Beginning her acting career as a teenager after she was discovered for the lead role in the film You Are Not Sixteen, Gong later studied and graduated from the nationally prestigious Central Academy of Drama. She first gained recognition among audiences in China after starring in several popular TV series and feature films in both mainland China and Hong Kong. Due to her success while still a student, Gong was dubbed in the media at the time as "little Gong Li", who also graduated from the same acting college.
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E Jingwen
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- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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E Jingwen, also known as Vin E or E Bo (Chinese: 鄂博), is a Chinese actress. E is considered a "Sing girl"—an actress who first received media attention through starring in the movie directed by Stephen Chow, after she has known for her role as "Ru Meng" in The New King of Comedy (2019).
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Ren Suxi
- Enrolled in the Central Academy of Drama
- Studied in 2005
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Ren Suxi is a Chinese actress. She made her acting debut in the drama film The Eighth Clay Man (2006), and has since gone on to appear in numerous movie and film titles such as Mr. Donkey (2016) and Looking Up (2019).
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Katherine Rose Morley
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- actorfilm actor
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Katherine Rose Morley is an English actress. She is best known for her television roles in The Mill (2013–2014), Vera (2015), Thirteen (2016), Last Tango in Halifax (2013–2020), Clink (2019), The Syndicate (2021), and the Black Mirror episode "Demon 79" (2023).
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Lü Liping
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- actor
- Biography
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Lǚ Lìpíng is a Chinese actress.
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Lin Peng
- Occupations
- actorsinger
- Biography
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Lin Peng is a Chinese actress. Peng began her career by appearing in a Jackie Chan film Little Big Soldier.
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Ai Jing
- Occupations
- actorpaintersinger
- Biography
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Ai Jing is a Chinese singer, actress and painter. China's Northeast News called her "China's most talented female folk rock singer."
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Zhang Yibai
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- film directorfilm producer
- Biography
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Zhang Xiaoling, better known by his stage name Zhang Yibai is a Chinese film director, screenwriter and producer.
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Dai Yuqiang
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- opera singer
- Biography
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Dai Yuqiang is a Chinese operatic tenor. He was the first and only Chinese student of Luciano Pavarotti. With Wei Song and Warren Mok he has performed abroad as "China's Three Tenors."
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Zhang Meng
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- screenwriterfilm directorfilm producer
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Zhang Meng is a Chinese director and screenwriter. He graduated from the Chinese Central Academy of Drama. In 2007, he made his directorial debut with Lucky Dog (Erduo Da You Fu). His first documentary was called Mr. Zhang and His Dog (2008). The Piano in a Factory (Gang de qin) won the Grand Jury Prize at the Miami International Film Festival in 2011 and the award for best actor, for Wang Qian-Yuan, at the 23rd Tokyo International Film Festival.
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Zheng Zhenyao
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- actorfilm actor
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Zheng Zhenyao was a Chinese film and television actress. Zheng started her career in the theater stage, but rose to fame through her role as a middle-aged lady in Sparkling Red Star (1974). For her performance in My Memories of Old Beijing (1982), Zheng won Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 2004, she won Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress for Shanghai Story.
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Cai Shangjun
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- film directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Cai Shangjun is a Chinese film director and screenwriter. Cai graduated from the Central Academy of Drama in 1992. Since then, his major work has been that of a professional screenwriter. Cai was part of the team, along with Zhang Yang, Diao Yi'nan, and Liu Fendou, that co-wrote the screenplays for two of Zhang's films: Spicy Love Soup (1997) and Shower (1999). Cai also cowrote a script for Zhang's Sunflower (2005).
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Yilin Zhong
- Occupations
- writernovelist
- Biography
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Yilin Zhong is a British-Chinese journalist, screenwriter and author. She is the author of seventeen novels, two film screenplays, ten books and many other work including poems and literary reviews. She currently lives in London.
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Chen Maiping
- Occupations
- translatorwriter
- Biography
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Chen Maiping is a Chinese-Swedish writer and poet, known by the pen name Wan Zhi (万之). He has written mostly short stories, and has also translated literature from English and Swedish to Chinese.
