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Zhenwei Wang is a Chinese born movie actor, known for The Karate Kid (2010) and Movie Martial Arts vs. Reality (2012) and a black belt martial arts expert who made his film debut as Cheng in the 2010 remake of The Karate Kid.
Born on October 20, 1995 in Handan, Hebei, China, an industrial city in southern Hebei province in eastern China, a communications and transportation hub on the Fuyang River north of Anyang; population 1,221,900 (est. 2006) to a middle class family, Zhenwei had never acted before 2010. He started training in Wushu at the Beijing Shichahai Amateur Sports School at age four.
At the age of just 4 and a half, his father Wang Chaoguo sent him away to the Beijing Shenshahai/Beijing Shichahai Amateur Sports School as he was "weak and sickly" described by his father. Zhenwei was highly focused and energetic during practice sessions. At his young age, he did not complain of being tired even after hours of practice. After years of hard work and effort, Zhenwei gained high praise from the wushu industry with his determination and firm martial arts foundation. After training for three and a half years, his father sent him to the Haidian Gymnasium when Zhenwei was about eight years old and he began learning the national wushu routines. His father sent him away from the family to live and study in Beijing, China so that he cold have a better education in the capital city of the People's Republic of China. Despite training, working and studying for long hours and at such a young age, Zhenwei did not complain that he was tired. Not even a bit.
Instead, Zhenwei received many awards in national competitions at a young age. He was awarded two gold medals in the Beijing Youth Wushu Competition. Two years later, when Zhenwei was 10, he came in first out of 57 excellent competitors when the national wushu team was searching for new members, and he successfully entered the national wushu B-Mannschaft. He was a two-time Beijing Youth Wushu gold medalist before being discovered and auditioning for his debut role as Cheng in the 2010 remake of The Karate Kid. In the movie, he associated himself with Jaden Smith who played Dre Parker. He played one of Jaden Smith's on-screen rivals in The Karate Kid, a rebellious, sadistic and ruthless kung fu prodigy. But in real life, Zhenwei is good friends with Jaden Smith and he even taught Jaden some Mandarin Chinese.
In July 2009, The Karate Kid began looking for cast members. The filming dictated that a teenage martial artist be selected. The vice-director of the filming team and Jackie Chan's assistant started the auditions within China's martial arts schools. At the Beijing Film Academy, approximately ten thousand selected contestants participated in the audition. The selection was extremely strict: English and Mandarin Chinese fluency, wushu skills, physical appearance, acting facial expressions, and even control over eye expressions were tested. After 3 months of auditions, Zhenwei overcame all difficulties and successfully became the actor who would portray Cheng in The Karate Kid. When filming The Karate Kid (2010), Zhenwei suffered a head injury requiring four stitches. He received it while chasing Jaden Smith (who played Dre Parker) after being splashed by the dirty water; Zhenwei hit his head on an oil pail. In addition, he received other minor injuries but fortunately, they were minor and everything healed up, so there was no major delay. The director stood by his side when he got injured and gave him days off to rest so he could heal his wounds.
Following this, Zhenwei returned to the big screen two years later at age 17 and starred as "Boss" in the comedy TV Series Movie Martial Arts vs. Reality. He resides in Beijing Xicheng District, Beijing, China. His brilliant on-screen performance and his fluency in Mandarin Chinese and English proves that he has amazing talents, both on-screen and off screen.- Lin Yi was born on 11 January 1999 in Hebei, China. He is an actor, known for Put Your Head on My Shoulder (2019), Hu Tong (2022) and Angels Fall Sometimes (2024).
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Dongyu Zhou was born on 27 December 1992 in Hebei, China. She is an actress and producer, known for Better Days (2019), Us and Them (2018) and Soulmate (2016).- Actress
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Zanilia Zhao was born on 16 October 1987 in Langfang, Hebei, China. She is an actress and producer, known for The Journey of Flower (2015), Princess Agents (2017) and Noble Aspirations (2016). She was previously married to Shaofeng Feng.- Actor
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Baoqiang Wang was born on 29 April 1984 in Hebei, China. He is an actor and director, known for Never Say Never (2023), Mr. Tree (2011) and Kung Fu Jungle (2014).- Actor
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2019.08.19- 2020.04.22 Debut movie project "Qing Ya Ji--Yin Yang Shi" and "Long Yue Ji--Yin Yang Shi" As Supporting Male, "Hiromasa"/"Yuan Bo Ya" aka. "Bo Ya", a musician, a young nobleman in ancient time with special talent as exorcist. The series of movies are reedited based on stories from the Japanese novel series Onmyoji (the Yin Yang Master) by Japanese writer Yoneyama Mineo, the whole project is composed of 2 separate movies shot continuously together.- Actor
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Yue Wu was born on 25 April 1976 in Zhangjiakou, Hebei, China. He is an actor and producer, known for Ip Man 4: The Finale (2019), Chinese Kung Fu (2010) and Journey to the West (2011).- Jie Liang was born on 16 June 1994 in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, China. She is an actress, known for Shuang Shi Chong Fei (2017), You Are My Destiny (2020) and Don't Lie to Your Lover (2020).
- Ruichang Wang was born on 8 October 1997 in Hebei Province, China. He is an actor, known for Shuang Shi Chong Fei (2017), The Long Ballad (2021) and Forward Forever (2020).
- Tianyang Zhang was born on 2 November 1987 in Tangshan, Hebei, China. He is an actor, known for Who Rules the World (2022), Sword Snow Stride (2021) and Love Like the Galaxy (2022).
- Te Liu was born on 27 June 1996 in Hebei, China. He is an actor, known for My Dear Lady (2020), Please Feel at Ease Mr. Ling (2021) and Sweet Teeth (2021).
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She was born in Shanghai, China, to Beijing opera performing parents. Thanks to a long and popular movie career and youthful looks, she is nicknamed 'The Evergreen Tree' of Chinese cinema. She began acting in movies in 1940 and acted in over 120 movies before she retired in 1973. her breakthrough was in a leading role in 'Xiao Feng Xian', a role by which she is still known first and foremost. Li li hua emigrated to the US after her retirement with her then husband, Yan Chun, who has since passed away.- Actor
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The slender square jawed debonair features that characterize Shih Chun also describe this 1960s era Taiwanese acting pioneer who upon his screen debut launched a star presence with a leading role alongside Taiwanese stars Shuangguan Lingfeng and Pai Ying in the late King Hu's early landmark hit 'Dragon Gate Inn' that would launch the path of parallel careers. Hu would almost immediately follow-up with Shih again by casting him as the iconic naive intellectual and momma's boy, a bumbling young scholar enchanted by the otherworldly charms of a beautiful but deadly young Ming Dynasty operative played by Hsu Feng in the Cannes Palm D'Or feature 'A Touch of Zen' elevating Shih's stature into the realm of international company. Shih Chun would collaborate with King Hu and his female muse Hsu Feng twice more during the late 1970s in the director's classically contemplative Buddhist-Taoist duet 'The Legend of the Mountain' and 'Raining in the Mountain'. Shih's screen credits would resume domestically with little fanfare through the 1980-90s upon retiring from acting in his native Taiwan although most recently his name would resurface once again in New Wave director Tsai Ming Liang's referential homage 'Goodbye Dragon Inn' alongside Shih Chun's original 'Inn' co-star and Tsai regular Mao Tien in 2003. Yet it would be his earlier collaborations with the legendary King Hu that would be his most profound and help shape his show business persona as the director's on-screen alter-ego and thus vicariously ours with the near passive screen persona that helped channel audiences back into a magical time of Chinese antiquity, often-times with Shih portraying the situational voice of challenged reason and threatened humanity in a chaotic tumultuous world rocked out of political, social and spiritual equilibrium.- Actor
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Chung-Hsin Huang was born on 27 May 1920 in Hebei, China. He was an actor, known for The Way of the Dragon (1972), Fist of Fury (1972) and The One-Armed Swordsman (1967). He was married to Chiao Chiao. He died on 28 October 1976 in Hong Kong.- Na Cai was born on 15 July 1995 in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China. She is an actress, known for Jade Dynasty (2022), The Eternal Strife (2023) and The Girl Downstairs (2023).
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Jiang Bian was born on 24 May 1982 in Qinhuangdao, Hebei, China. He is an actor and executive, known for Imperial Guard in Ming Dynasty (2016), Dragon Raja -The Blazing Dawn- (2022) and Magical Legend: Rise to Immortality (2016).- Sanmu Liu was born on 6 December 1996 in Chengde, Hebei, China. He is an actor, known for The Untamed (2019), Battle Through the Heavens (2017) and A Record of Mortal's Journey to Immortality (2020).
- Jinling Zhang was born in February 1951 in Cangxian, Hebei, China. She is an actress, known for What a Family (1979), Xu Mao and His Daughters (1981) and Cong nu li dao jiang jun (1979).
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Du Chun was born in Hebei, China. Her parents are Du Zhiguo, also an actor, and Yang Li, a dancer and dancing instructor. He started dance training by his mother. At the age of 11, Du got admitted to The Dance School of Central University of Nationalities (CUN), one of the key disciplinary bases of national minority arts and the cradle of ethnic dancers, to fulfill his mother's dream to be trained professionally in one of the top dancing schools in China. He found passion on performing arts during his six years of dancing training. Du got admitted into Beijing Film Academy in 1999 with one of the highest admission test scores even though he did not take the regular middle and high school courses. He was among the best students academically in college. Before his graduation in 2003, with his father's help, he landed an important role in director Hu Mei's big TV historical costume drama production Han Wu Dadi. He did great job on portraying an ambitious and playful young leader which established his acting career. Since then, Du has played as leading roles for more than a dozen of TV drama series. He is such a chameleon that you remember the characters he creates instead of his persona or even his name. His name became well recognized in 2009 as "Red Idol" after he portrayed a spy hero Jiang Bo in "Enemy Camp for 18 years" and a self-made businessman Tian Qin in "Emigrate to the West", which won him a nomination as best actor on Monte Carlo TV Festival 2009. His recent role as a graduate from oversea in a TV comedy "Rent a girl friend for New Year" won him a huge number of young fans. He just finished shooting TV version of "Fight and Love with a Terracotta Warrior". Most of the roles he played are ideal Chinese man with traditional values. His electric screen energy and compassionate personality won so many people's hearts from all age groups in China. Du is coined by the media as one of the leading young actors in China and has a name as an actor with a thousand faces.- Actor
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Yang Xiao was born on 7 April 1980 in Hebei, China. He is an actor and director, known for Old Boys: The Way of the Dragon (2014), Sheep Without a Shepherd (2019) and Airpocalypse (2018).- Actor
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Yuming Du was born on 10 June 1958 in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China. He is an actor and assistant director, known for Ri guang xia gu (1995), Little Big Soldier (2010) and Joy of Life (2019).- Viola Mi was born on 21 July 1989 in Cangzhou, Hebei, China. She is an actress, known for The Legend of the Condor Heroes (2017), The Legends (2019) and Zui jia qian nanyou (2015).
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Lei Zhao was born in 1928 in Hebei, China. He was an actor and director, known for The Beauty of Beauties (1965), Madame White Snake (1962) and The Enchanting Shadow (1960). He was married to Shi, Ying. He died on 24 June 1996 in Hong Kong.- Actress
Qianyi Ma was born on 29 June 2011 in Hebei, China. She is an actress, known for He dao (2018), Dying to Survive (2018) and Day Dreaming (2023).- Actor
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Paul Chang Chung was born in 1931 in Hebei, China. He was an actor and director, known for Police Story (1985), Dang kou san lang (1973) and Yin se da dui (1974). He was married to Chin Hu. He died in 2010 in Singapore.