Zhao Wei

essential information

Vicki Zhao, born in Wuhu City, Anhui Province on March 12, 1976, is a film actress, singer, director and producer in mainland China. She graduated from the performance Department of Beijing Film Academy and holds a master's degree from the director department of Beijing Film Academy.

In 1993, she began her acting career in her first film, the soul of painting. In 1995, she acted as the heroine for the first time and appeared in her first TV play "sister and sister in Beijing". In 1998, the Qing Dynasty palace drama Huanzhugege, starred by him, was broadcasted. The drama has set many records, such as the first audience rating in China, the first in Asia, the highest replay rate, etc. with this drama, it won the 17th Golden Eagle Award for outstanding actress of China TV and other awards. In 1999, he released his first personal music album "swallow", which officially entered the singing world. In 2000, she starred in the Republic of China emotional drama deep rain; after that, Zhao Wei rarely appeared on the TV screen, focusing on the film and record business.

In 2005, she released her fifth personal music album "double"; in the same year, she won the best actress award of the 8th Shanghai International Film Festival Golden Baron award and the outstanding actress award of the 11th China Film Huabiao Award for her film "Valentine's Knot"; in the same year, her Republic of China love drama "Jinghua Yanyun" became the annual ratings champion of Chinese TV series. In 2006, she won the most popular female singer award in the 13th Oriental fashion list. In 2010, with the film "Hua Mulan", she won the best actress award of the 30th popular film Hundred Flowers Award. In 2013, his youth love film "to our lost youth" achieved a box office performance of 726 million yuan. In 2015, he won the best actress award of the 34th Hong Kong Film Awards for his film "dear"; in the same year, his romantic comedy "Hong Kong lost" achieved box office results of 1.613 billion yuan. In 2019, he starred in the drama "verification"; in the same year, he supervised and starred in the film "two tigers".

Character experience

Early experience

Zhao Wei was born in Wuhu City, Anhui Province. Her father often took her to Liuzhou street in Wuwei County to see her relatives, where she learned to swim. I spent more of my childhood with my grandmother on the second street of Minsheng Road in Wuhu City. When she was a child, Zhao Wei would help her grandmother, who works in the second street water supply station, put on the tap water every evening, and brush the iron bucket clean for her neighbors. She also did the work of changing money.

Zhao Wei has been very independent since she was a child. When she was in grade one or two of primary school, her parents didn't make breakfast for her. When she got up in the morning, she could see that there was breakfast money on the table. Unless it was the entrance examination the next day, her mother would get up to make breakfast for her. It was from then on that she began to learn to be independent. In addition, Zhao Wei will help her parents do housework at home and cook good dishes, but she doesn't like to wash dishes and chopsticks. After eating, she will push the bowl.

When Zhao Wei was a child, she was not a girl who wanted to perform. She didn't like to take photos and go on stage. Under the love of her parents and brother, she was unscrupulous in her childhood. She often played dirty or fell all over her head. Moreover, when she was a child, she was still an expert in fighting and often beat her male classmates to beg for mercy.

Due to her father's job transfer, Zhao Wei successively changed four schools, including Dongfeng primary school, Tuanjie Road Primary School, and primary school attached to normal university. Finally, she studied in lead wire factory children's primary school (Jiefang Road Primary School), where her mother Wei Qiying taught. When she moved again, her mother couldn't bear to let her daughter go to school again, so she rode her bicycle to send her to school every day. Her mother often told stories, read Tang and Song poems, and taught her to sing and practice. Although the grade of primary school is always poor, the grade of grade 6 is higher than that of middle school. She is outstanding in painting and often gets excellent. The only bad thing is that she likes to draw everywhere with chalk, even the poles.

Zhao Wei scored 87 points in Chinese, 89 points in mathematics and 31.5 points in foreign language (full score of 50 points) in the examination of primary school to junior high school. However, she is not willing to enter the key middle school based on the background of the martyr's offspring and her father's social relationship. Instead, she chooses to enter Wuhu No.17 middle school (renamed Wuhu Industrial School).

In July 1991, Zhao Wei graduated from junior high school and got 76 points in Chinese, 62 points in mathematics, 60 points in foreign language and 76 points in politics. Although her scores were not high, her scores in music, dance, performance and painting were excellent. On the advice of her teacher, she entered Wuhu normal school to study kindergarten teachers' major and began her first step towards the film and television industry. In addition to culture, she also studied music, fine arts and sports in school. Chen Anqi, the school's dance teacher, not only taught her music knowledge and dance movements, but also taught her stage performance experience, and provided opportunities for her to participate in all kinds of literature and art performances organized by the school and the city.

Acting experience

In 1993, Huang Shuqin directed and Gong Li and ER Dongsheng starred in the Republic of China love film "painted soul" shot in Anhui, and recruited a group of temporary actresses in Zhao Wei's Wuhu normal school. She got the chance to play in the film by putting on a few moves. For the first time, she was electrocuted on the big screen and played a brothel woman without lines in the film.

In 1994, after graduating from Wuhu normal school, Zhao Wei went to Shanghai to study in Xiejin Hengtong Star School (renamed as Xiejin film and Television Art School of Shanghai Normal University) founded by Xiejin. As the first batch of graduates, she played in the first female prison movie "daughter's Valley" directed by Xiejin in mainland China, in which she played the No.2 female who was arrested for stealing valuable hospital drugs Ding jing'er, a nurse sentenced to one year.

In 1995, she took the leading role for the first time and completed her first TV play. She played Bai Xiaoxue, a southern girl who came to Beijing to take refuge in her hometown because of the failure of college entrance examination in the urban emotional comedy "sister and sister in Beijing" directed by Zeng Jianfeng. This also laid a solid foundation for her future artistic career. With the broadcast of the play, Zhao Wei accepted "popular film" one after another In the same year, she also starred in the urban comedy "a story on a rainy day" starring Pan Changjiang and Guo Donglin, in which she played the female secretary Miao LAN.

In 1996, he co starred with Hu Jun and Si Han in the plot movie "East Palace and West Palace", in which she played a female classmate nicknamed "bus"; later, she co starred with Guo Donglin and Pan Changjiang in the urban comedy "the magic cube", in which she played Roman, a female nurse who dreams of becoming a singer.

In 1997, when Zhao Wei was a sophomore, she was selected by Qiongyao to play in the Qing Dynasty court drama huanzhu gege. At first, Qiongyao assigned her the role of Xia Ziwei, who was knowledgeable and gentle. During the period, she proposed to the crew that she wanted to play little swallow, but she was rejected. Later, because the actor who originally played the role resigned, she was asked to play the heroine little swallow.

In 1998, the Qing Dynasty palace drama huanzhu gege, starred by him, was broadcasted, with an average audience rating of more than 47%, creating a number of records, such as China's first audience rating, Asia's first audience rating, and the highest replay rate. It was regarded as a reserved play by Hunan satellite TV, and repeated in the Spring Festival, summer vacation and other periods in the following years. The high audience rating of huanzhu gege in the whole Asia made Zhao Wei the first As an artist from mainland China who has received a lot of attention in the Chinese circle and Southeast Asia, she has also won many awards such as the outstanding actress award of the 17th Golden Eagle Award of China TV and the top ten figures at the box office of TV, and has become the cover character of Asia Weekly, an international Chinese current affairs weekly. In the same year, she also took part in the costume drama Kang, starring Zhang Guoli, Deng Jie and Wu Jun In the play, he plays Yue qinger, the daughter of Yue Sanfeng, the owner of qiushuicheng tea and medicine shop.

In 1999, the qingzhuang palace drama Huanzhugege II, starred by him, broke the rating of the first one, with the national average rating exceeding 54%, and the highest point exceeding 65%, thus setting a record for Chinese TV series. On April 21, he launched his first personal music series "swallow" (also known as "the spirit of flying over time"), which included "there is one" On May 13, the love movie "fate, wonderful" starring Wu Qilong, He Rundong and Li Qihong was released, in which she played the heroine Weiwei as a tour guide of a travel agency. In the same year, the original soundtrack "huanzhu gege music full record" was released, which included the songs of Zhao Wei "We", "can't break up with you" and other four songs; on July 21, the modern love idol drama "old Fang Youxi" (formerly known as "cousin auspicious") starred with Su Youpeng premiered, in which one person played two roles, playing the pure and lovely heroine Jixiang and Su San's young lover Li Mei; on September 1, the second personal music album "love curse" was released, She has collected 10 songs and 5 accompaniments, including "ear hole" and "secret love for cat". In addition, she has won the JVC new town Popular Female Singer Award in Hong Kong.

On February 3, 2000, the martial arts film "the top of the Forbidden City", CO starring with Andy Lau, Zheng Yijian and Zhang Jiahui, was released, in which she played the fiancee Princess feifeng of the leading actor Ye Gucheng; on February 4, she participated in the CCTV Spring Festival gala for the first time. In addition to acting as the host, she also performed the sketch "Xiaofeng" with Huang Hong and Ling Feng

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