![]() ![]() The film landed her other roles in TV series including her first leading role in Sisters in Beijing (1996). Though she did not find her own performance fulfilling, Zhao considered it a valuable experience and a good start to her career. She was also selected by Xie to star in his movie Penitentiary Angel (1996). She moved from her hometown to Shanghai and enrolled in Xie Jin Star Academy, an acting school founded by the Chinese director Xie Jin, where she received structured acting training during 1994–1995. In 1994, after graduating from the Wuhu Normal School, she gave up her job as an apprentice pre-school teacher. Zhao developed a strong interest in acting after this first experience, and decided to become an actress. She appeared briefly at the beginning of the film and had no dialogue. Zhao was cast in the role of a young prostitute in the brothel where Gong's character worked, her first acting experience. In 1993, while Zhao was still in school, the movie A Soul Haunted by Painting (1994), directed by Huang Shuqin, starring Gong Li and Derek Yee, wass filming in Wuhu. She also received training in piano, dance, and Chinese ink wash painting. ![]() After secondary school, Zhao entered Wuhu Normal School, a local education institution training students to become pre-school teachers. īorn and brought up in Wuhu, Anhui, Zhao is the second child to Zhao Jiahai ( Chinese: 赵家海 pinyin: Zhào Jiāhǎi), an engineer, and Wei Qiying ( Chinese: 魏启颖 pinyin: Wèi Qǐyǐng), a primary school teacher, She has an elder brother Zhao Jian ( Chinese: 赵健 pinyin: Zhào Jiān born 1971). On 27 August 2021, all films and television dramas featuring Zhao disappeared from Chinese video streaming services like Tencent Video and iQiyi, and her Weibo Super Talk was deleted no formal explanation was given by the Chinese government. The movie earned her multiple awards in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, including Golden Rooster Award for Best Directorial Debut, Hundred Flowers Award for Best Director and Hong Kong Film Award for Best Film from Mainland and Taiwan. ![]() It broke the box office record for films directed by female Chinese directors in a week, and eventually became one of the highest-grossing films in China. Her directorial debut So Young (2013) is both a box office and critical success. Zhao received her master's degree in film directing from Beijing Film Academy in 2012. In September 2017, she is named as a member of the main competition jury for the 30th Tokyo International Film Festival. In 2016, Zhao is named as member of the main jury at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival. Zhao ranked 80th on Forbes China Celebrity 100 list in 2013, 22nd in 2014, 7th in 2015, and 28th in 2017. In 2006, she won the MTV Asia Award for Favorite Artist from Mainland China, for her album Double. She has a music career, starting with her debut album Swallow (1999), and has released 7 albums. While focusing mostly on films, her works also include TV series such as Romance in the Rain (2001), Moment in Peking (2005) and Tiger Mom (2015). In 2014, after almost a two-year break from acting, she appeared in Peter Chan's film Dearest, and won the Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award and Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress. She has received numerous awards from the Shanghai International Film Festival, Huabiao Awards, Changchun Film Festival, Hundred Flowers Awards and Shanghai Film Critics Awards for films like A Time to Love (2005) and Mulan (2009). Zhao has starred in many box-office hits, including Shaolin Soccer (2001), Red Cliff (2008–2009), Painted Skin (2008), Painted Skin: The Resurrection (2012), Dearest (2014) and Lost in Hong Kong (2015). My Fair Princess enjoyed unprecedented success in East and Southeast Asian countries, and Zhao was regarded by many as Mainland China's first "national idol" since the economic reform began in 1978. While studying at the Beijing Film Academy, Zhao rose to national and regional prominence overnight for her role as Xiao Yan Zi ("Little Swallow") in the hit TV series My Fair Princess (1998–1999), for which she also won Golden Eagle Award for Best Actress. She is considered one of the most popular actresses in China and Chinese-speaking regions, and one of the highest paid actresses as well. Zhao Wei ( simplified Chinese: 赵薇 traditional Chinese: 趙薇 pinyin: Zhào Wēi born 12 March 1976), also known as Vicky Zhao or Vicki Zhao, is a Chinese actress, businesswoman, film director, producer and pop singer. ![]()
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