Chen Weiting

essential information

William Chan was born in Hong Kong, China on November 21, 1985. His ancestral home is Yunfu City, Guangdong Province. He is a Chinese film actor, singer and host. He graduated from St. Joseph's English school in Hong Kong.

In 2003, he entered the performing arts circle because he participated in the global Chinese rookie Hong Kong trial. In 2006, he became a member of sun boy's group. In 2008, he began to develop independently, and then released his first album "will power", which won the most popular male rookie Gold Award at the 2008 Top Ten Golden Songs Award Ceremony and the most promising new man Gold Award of the 31st top ten Chinese Golden Songs. In 2012, he won the new city Pop Awards, the new city pop Asian pop singer award. Chen Weiting won the best supporting role award in the 5th China disaster film festival in 2013. In 2014, he was well known by the mainland audience for his role in the ancient costume immortal hero drama "the legend of the ancient sword", and won the most popular all-around artist award of the year at the National Opera Festival and the most expected actor in the TV drama media of the year. In the same year, he also won the best young actor award at the Wanxiang International Chinese Film Festival for his inspirational comedy "men can't be poor".

In 2015, the idol drama of the Republic of China "vivid colors and fragrance" and the ancient costume immortal drama "Legend of Swordsman in the war period of Shushan" were successively broadcast; in the same year, with "the legend of ancient sword", it was nominated as the best new star of the 17th Huading Award for China's top 100 TV series. In 2016, with the Republic of China suspense drama "laojiumen" won high attention; in December of the same year, won the 2017 iqiyi scream night person of the year award. In 2017, he starred in the costume fantasy conspiracy drama "Zui Linglong" broadcast. In 2018, the urban emotional drama "arbor in the South" starred by Chen Weiting, the magic film "war god" and the urban criminal investigation drama "orange red age" were shown one after another. In August 2020, it ranked 40th on the Forbes 2020 China celebrity list; in the same year, it won the most popular actor award of the 8th Vancouver Chinese Film Festival for its film "beloved".

Early experience

In 2003, Chen's family contacted a university in the United States, but he wanted to develop in singing and dancing. He is going to take part in the Hong Kong regional trials of global Chinese rookies, and assures his family that if he fails to win the first place in the trials, he will accept the arrangement of his family and go to the United States to study. At the end of the competition, Chen won the first place, and then he signed with Emperor Entertainment.

In 2004, after graduating from high school, Chen Weiting gave up the opportunity to study in the United States and stayed in Hong Kong.

Acting experience

Hong Kong's debut

In June 2006, Chen Weiting, together with Zhang Zhiheng and Mai Zihao, formed the sun boy'z group as a new member and began to establish the image of a dancing singer and enter the performing arts circle.

In April 2008, sun boy'z group was officially disbanded; in September, Chen Weiting released his first music album will power, which won the most popular male rookie Gold Award at the top 10 Golden Songs Awards ceremony in Hong Kong and the most promising Chinese Golden Songs rookie Gold Award in Hong Kong.

On July 17, 2009, Chen Weiting's second music album warrior was released; on July 24, 2009, the Hong Kong Police and bandit film eavesdropping was released in mainland China; in the same year, he participated in the national version of dance forest conference of Oriental satellite TV twice as a contestant to show his dancing skills.

In March 2010, Chen Weiting played Qin Lang in the romantic comedy "beautiful secret order"; in April, he released his third music album "do you wanna dance"; in June, he starred in the romantic movie "QianDu"; on December 6, his fourth music album "heads or tails" was released.

In March 2011, the film "derailed woman" starred by Chen Weiting was exhibited in the 35th Hong Kong International Film Festival; on August 25, he released his fifth music album "wow"; in September, Chen Weiting attended the award ceremony in the new capital center of Hong Kong and won the 2011 "top 10 health stars".

On July 10, 2012, Chen Weiting's sixth music album "pop it up" was released; in November, the gangster action movie "zhajin" starred him was released, in which he played a top university student a ting.

Move to the mainland

In 2013, Chen Weiting shifted his focus to the mainland of China and took over the shooting of the martial arts drama "four famous young men" at the end of February. In July, he formally signed the mainland TV drama into Arnold studio and took over the shooting of "the legend of ancient Swords".

In January 2014, the disaster movie "fire fighting hero" was released, and Chen Weiting won the best supporting actor award of Macao International Film Festival for his role as Zhang Wenjian. In July, his ancient costume fairy hero drama "the legend of the ancient sword" won the first audience rating of the same period of TV series in China during the broadcast period, and the average hits of single episode of network broadcast volume exceeded 150 million, while Chen Weiting also won the first prize because of his elder martial brother Ling Yue is well known to mainland audiences, and has won the most popular all-around artist of the year and the most expected actor of the year in the National Drama Festival. He also nominated the best supporting actor for the Magnolia Award of Shanghai TV Festival. On November 25, he won the European Wanxiang International Chinese Film Festival for his role of Xue Keyong, a rebellious and stubborn young man who is lost in the inspirational comedy "men can't be poor" The best young actor award was also shortlisted for the best supporting actor award at the Macao International Film Festival. The film was subsequently released in the mainland on December 24.

On February 4, 2015, the idol drama of the Republic of China (the Republic of China) was broadcast, with a national network rating of 3.43, breaking the record of the first broadcast of TV drama in the past decade. The first day's network broadcast volume was 107.31 million times, and the two episodes exceeded 100 million, breaking the record of the first day's network broadcast volume of mainland TV drama. Chen Weiting played an Yichen, his first role in the Republic of China drama; on March 17, the ancient martial arts drama "youth four" was released On May 11, Chen Weiting appeared on the Forbes China celebrity list in 2015, ranking 70th; on June 5, his action movie "fight against the city of fans" was released, in which one person played the role of triangle. On June 16, he released EP "and so on", with a total of 4 movies On September 22, Chen Weiting's ancient costume drama swordsman legend of Shushan war era premiered in iqiyi, in which he plays the gifted actor Ding Yin / Ding Dali / blood devil. The play's first online backstage broadcasting mode has broken the network linkage and video website's follow-up mode, and the cumulative broadcasting volume in iqiyi's whole network has exceeded 2 billion; On October 26, Chen Weiting personally participated in the world premiere of his song 1121.

On January 16, 2016, the leading drama swordsman legend of Shushan war was broadcast on Anhui Satellite TV, with an average audience rating of 1.053 in csm35 city and 0.976 in csm52 city; on February 24, the urban love drama happiness because of love was broadcast, in which Chen Weiting played sukaiwen, a kind-hearted, righteous, independent and westernized university lecturer, and provided the final song of the play "I want to hold you" You; on April 6, the urban love drama "fate to happiness" premiered in Tencent VIP, with Chen Weiting as he Han, which was broadcast on Shenzhen satellite TV on June 23; on July 4, the Republic of China suspense drama "laojiumen" starred by Chen Weiting was broadcast in the Oriental satellite TV weekly Theater, with Chen Weiting playing the courageous and knowledgeable Zhang Qishan, and singing the theme song "my door" for the drama, which caused quite a stir after the broadcast With a high degree of Internet popularity and hot topic discussion, Chen Weiting has long been at the top of the ratings of the same period. His microblog derived topics have been read more than 15 billion times and broadcast more than 10 billion times on the Internet, becoming the first self-made drama in the history of the whole network. Chen Weiting has also become a hot topic in all major search lists. On August 5, the single "W project" was launched on the Internet, and ranked in the top of all major music charts on the first day of its release At the top of the list, Chen Weiting's romantic comedy "that crazy little thing is called love" was screened in Shanghai on August 6, with a single box office of nearly 310000, breaking the highest box office record in China. He played editor Jiang Yang in the play, which was released nationwide on August 12. In August, Chen Weiting's "inside me" concert tour was held This is his first personal tour; on September 30, the all live CG Magic Movie "Jue Ji" was released, in which he played the cruel and cold-blooded ghost.

On January 27, 2017, Chen Weiting appeared on the stage of CCTV Spring Festival gala for the first time and sang the song "love you for ten thousand years" with Lu Han. On April 24, Chen Weiting entered Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in Shanghai in the image of Zhang Qishan, becoming the first artist to enter Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in Shanghai in the role of film and television. On July 13, his ancient costume fantasy trick play "Zui Linglong" was broadcast, in which he played a role Yuan Ling, the prince of the Western Wei Dynasty, is a deep-seated, tolerant and conceited actor, and sings the theme song "because of you" for the play.

On February 15, 2018, he once again appeared on the stage of CCTV's Spring Festival Gala, where Chen Weiting performed the song "the best stage" with Huang Bo and Zhang Yixing

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