In 2005, the staff of Popular Cinema magazine selected 10 outstanding actresses in 100 years of movie history (1905-2005): Ruan Lingyu, Hu Die, Zhou Xuan, Bai Yang, Shangguan Yunzhu, Qin Yi, Lin Qingxia, Liu Xiaoqing, Zhang Manyu and Gong Li, whose efforts
Chinese Name: Ruan Lingyu
Alias: Ruan Fenggen, Ruan Yuying
Nationality: Chinese
Ethnicity: Han Chinese
Zodiac Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Shanghai
Date of Birth: April 26, 1910
Death: March 8, 1935
Occupation: Movie Actress
These are the most important roles in the history of Chinese film. Profession: Movie Actress
Graduate School: Shanghai Chongde Girls' High School
Representative Works: Weeds and Flowers, Three Modern Women, Gadgets, Night in the City, Farewell, Shanghai
Major Achievements: The Most Representative Movie Star of China's Silent Era
Early Years
In the history of Chinese cinema, countless outstanding actresses and actresses have emerged. In 2005, the staff of Popular Cinema magazine selected 10 actresses in the history of 100 years of cinema (1905-2005), whose efforts, achievements, personal charms, and the roles they played have become one of the most important parts of the epitome of Chinese cinema history.
Characters
Ruan Lingyu
Ruan Lingyu (1910~1935) was China's first actress to receive widespread social acclaim. Ruan Lingyu played roles in 29 films since starring in her first film, The Titular Couple, in 1927. Her appearance marked the beginning of China's film acting art to break away from the shackles of civilized drama and move towards realism and authenticity. In her short life, Ruan Lingyu created images of women from all social classes in old China, especially her performance as the defiled and damaged woman in The Goddess, which was the most outstanding. When The Goddess was re-screened abroad, it still shone with immortal artistic luster. Playing Lingyu in the art of acting, formed their own sincere, simple, natural, fresh unique style, her full of enthusiasm, skillful techniques, unique approach, so that she reached the highest level of silent era of Chinese film performing arts.
Hu Die
Hu Die (1907~1989) continued her acting career from the late 1920s to the 1960s. However, her most brilliant period was in the 1930s and 1940s. In the early 1930s, she starred in China's first talkie, Red Peony, a songstress, and was quite successful in her portrayal of a woman who endured her husband's abuse and oppression without any resistance, and who was kind-hearted and a bit foolish. In the first left-wing movie "Wild Flow", her portrayal of Xiu Juan, who was not only rebellious but also rich in inner world, was well received. Her starring role in Sisters' Flower was the peak of her acting art. Hu played the roles of auntie, mother, schoolteacher, actress, prostitute, laborer, etc. With her noble and elegant temperament and gentle and generous performance, she was once regarded as the "Queen of Cinema" by the audience. She was once named the "Queen of Movies" by the audience. Spanning two eras, the silent film era and the talkie era, she became one of the most outstanding actors in China in the 1930s and 1940s.
Zhou Xuan
Zhou Xuan (1920~1957) has been engraved in the hearts of the audience for her gentle, sweet and touching "golden voice" and her sincere, natural and touching screen image. She was sold as a foster daughter of the Zhou family in her childhood, joined the Shanghai Mingyue Song and Dance Troupe in 1931, and became famous for her starring role in the song and dance "Special Express". 1934, she was ranked first in a singing contest jointly organized by Shanghai radio stations, and became one of the top ten singers, and was known as the "golden voice". 1935, she started her career as a singer. Zhou Xuan became a movie star in 1937 with the film "The Angel of the Road", which was made in 1935. What impressed the audience most was the movie's two interludes, "Song of the Four Seasons" and "Song Girl at the End of the World".
After the August 13th Incident, Zhou Xuan took part in the performance of the large-scale drama "Defend Lugou Bridge".
After the August 13th Incident, she participated in the large-scale drama
Bai Yang
Bai Yang's (1920~1997) greatest hit was "Crossroads" in which she starred in 1936. In this movie, she was paired with Zhao Dan as Yang Yi-ying, a coach of a yarn factory, and was more successful in portraying this young bourgeois woman full of fantasies and childishness.In the 1940s, she starred in Eight Thousand Miles of Roads, Clouds, and the Moon and A River of Spring Water Flows East. Bai Yang's artistic career continued into the 1960s, with films such as For Peace, Blessing, Jinyuji, and Winter Plum. Especially in 1956, her portrayal of Sisterhood of the Xianglin in Blessing reached the peak of her performing art. In her later artistic practice, Bai Yang gradually developed a beautiful, natural, subtle and distinctive acting style, revealing the unique charm of oriental women.
Shangguan Yunzhu
Shangguan Yunzhu (1922-1968). Shangguan Yunzhu had the artistic ability to make the character of a small role shine on the screen and leave a deep impression on the audience with a single look and a few movements. She is a malleable, wide-ranging, talented character actress. Shangguan's performances are "in the heart, in the form", with a charm that comes from the heart. Though she is short, Shangguan is good at avoiding her shortcomings, hiding her weaknesses and showing her strengths
, and she is able to express her character's charisma in a delicate way with the right amount of emotion. When she stood in front of the camera, she often made the director feel that she was "divine". In her short life, she portrayed a variety of identities, personalities and temperaments, such as "Spring Dreams in Paradise" in the role of the traitor's wife, "a river of spring water to the east" in the role of the "reception of the lady", "lights" in the role of a bitter housewife, "stage sisters" in the role of the aging "playwright", "the playwright". The roles of the "playwright" in "Stage Sisters" and the tender widow in "Early Spring and February", and the anti-Japanese guerrilla nurse Fu Ruohua in "Wind and Cloud on the South Island" all left a deep impression on the audience.
Qin Yi
Qin Yi (1922~) was born with two large eyes that were particularly attractive. Famous playwright Wu Zuguang said, "Her beautiful figure and especially bright pair of eyes drew many people in." There were many beautiful actresses in the movie industry, but not many as accomplished as Qin Yi. She never took her natural beauty as satisfaction or principal; she paid more attention to hard work and enterprise, and her success depended on her real skills. During the war period, she, together with Bai Yang, Shu Xiwen and Zhang Ruifang, was known as the "Four Famous Dancers" on the stage of the Chongqing movie and drama in the rear of the war. 1947, after the victory of the war, Qin Yi returned to Shanghai, and as a featured actress, played major roles in films such as Loyalty and Righteousness, Anonymous, Distant Love, Mother and Lost Love, among others. She played major roles in such films.
After the founding of New China, Qin Yi worked as an actress at Shanghai Film Studio and deputy director of the Actors' Troupe, starring in such films as Nongjiale, Maranhuala, Two Families in Spring, Moya Dai, Jiangnan in the North, and Dreams, but not Dreams and playing important roles in such films as Women's Basketball No. 5, The Railway Guerrillas, Lin Zexu, The Song of Youth and Springtime, Thunderstorm, and Overseas Reds. In 1983, she starred in the TV series "Under the Roof of Shanghai" (also acting as an artistic advisor), which once again demonstrated to the world her extraordinary acting skills and oriental femininity. She has acted in more than 30 films, whether it is a big role, a small role, or even a mass role, she has acted wholeheartedly, and conquered several generations of movie fans with her real, natural, and unforced acting skills.
Lin Ching-hsia
Lin Ching-hsia (1954~), with the "Taiwan beauty" as she is one of the Hong Kong and Taiwan film industry, one of the most prestigious actresses, more than 20 years across the film industry, Taiwan's queen of the title, but chose to marry a Hong Kong businessman Xing Liyuan at the age of 40 years old, and since then faded out of the film industry, her dramatic career change, impressive. Her dramatic career change is impressive. In 1975, at the age of 21, she played the role of Yang Huimin, a girl scout who swam across the river to present a flag to the 800 soldiers in the Chinese movie "Eight Hundred Heroes," which won her the Best Actress Award at the 22nd Asian Film Festival the following year.
What impressed moviegoers in her early days was her role in movies based on Qiong Yao's novels, such as "I Am a Cloud" and "The Moon is Hazy, the Birds are Hazy". Although she became popular at a young age, Brigitte Lin has been working hard to transform herself. 1980, she went to the United States to study acting, and then in 1984, she went to the United States to study acting related courses at the International University of San Diego, and in 1990, she won the 27th Golden Horse Award for her work in "Rolling Dust". 1991, Brigitte Lin appeared in "The Laughing Wanderer of the East", which set off a trend of backstabbing and her backstabbing image was unforgettable. Brigitte Lin portrayed countless classic images, such as the impressive classic Oriental Undefeatable, which is still regarded by Taiwanese as a beauty who walks down the aisle.
Liu Xiaoqing
Liu Xiaoqing (1955~) used to be one of China's most famous movie stars, winning six Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers awards, and she is still on the front line of film and television production. She is not only a movie actress, like her peers, she has experienced all the important historical periods in China in the second half of the 20th century: three years of natural disasters, the Cultural Revolution, the reform and opening up, she went to the countryside, worked as a farmer, a worker, and in the People's Liberation Army, but luckily, more than most of her peers, due to her acting talent, personal efforts and opportunities, Liu Xiaoqing successfully changed her personal life. Luckier than most of her peers, thanks to her acting talent, personal efforts and opportunities, Liu Xiaoqing has successfully changed her personal destiny, becoming a movie star in the limelight from an ordinary Sichuan girl with only a secondary education. As an actress, she has been described as having a "wide range of acting styles, good at capturing images, and utilizing life's details to portray the personality traits of different characters.
Whether you love her or loathe her, think she's a personality or a megalomaniac, Liu, a movie star who has continued to attract attention for more than two decades, has become part of the collective memory of our time.
Manuel Cheung
Manuel Cheung (1964~), "For a powerful actress, it doesn't matter what she wears when she walks on the red carpet." After becoming the winner of this year's Cannes Film Festival, Maggie Cheung wrote down the "unforgettable moments of my life" with elegance and warmth, but with a beautiful self-confidence that comes through.
The greatest strength of Maggie is her ability to portray a multifaceted character while at the same time displaying the character's unique charisma, and being able to do one of these things is enough to make an actor successful.
Maybe we don't remember that Maggie has won five Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actress, four Taiwan Golden Horse Awards for Best Actress, as well as other awards such as the Berlin and Cannes Double International Film Queen, but her beauty and sadness in "Ruan Lingyu", her spirituality and wisdom in "Rolling Dust", her spiciness and foxy charm in "The Inn at the New Dragon Gate", and her stoicism in "Flowery Years" are just some of the most important awards that have been given to Maggie in the past 20 years. Lonely Maggie Cheung's 20 years of acting life makes us understand more y the saying, "The so-called beauty is carved by time!" A woman in the years and the camera constantly corrected themselves, so that we know what is called will not be forgotten at any time the bones and beauty.
Gong Li
Gong Li (1965~) can be called a miracle in the Chinese movie industry. Thanks to her successful cooperation with the famous director Zhang Yimou, she has grown from a student at a drama school to an internationally renowned movie star in just four or five years. She is the international spokesperson for Chinese actresses. She created the miracle of Chinese filmmakers breaking into the world of cinema. She was a special guest at the 51st Cannes Film Festival, admitted as a member of the Oscar Committee, and president of the jury of the Berlin, Venice and Tokyo International Film Festivals. Jiu'er, who stepped down from the red sedan chair that year, hula so many dazzling halos in her arms.
The peak of Gong Li's performance was Zhang Yimou's 1992 film "Qiu Ju", in which the actors gave their roles a sense of reality that y moved the audience, and not only did Qiu Ju make Gong Li the "Golden Rooster" and "Hundred Flowers" queen, but she was also honored at the 49th Venice International Film Festival, which was the first time that Gong Li had been honored by a jury. And in the 49th Venice International Film Festival won the Best Actress Award, which is the first time a mainland actress won an international award.