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Gao Yuanyuan (born October 5, 1979
simplified Chinese: 高圆圆; traditional Chinese: 高圓圓; pinyin: Gāo yuányuán) is a Chinese actress.
She appeared as a minor role in the 1997 comedy film Spicy Love Soup, directed by Zhang Yang. While in 2000, she starred in an advertisement for Qing Zui (fresh mouth) mint during CCTV's broadcast of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, and is thus known to viewers as "fresh mouth girl".
In 2002, she played the leading role of Zhou Zhiruo in The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, a television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel of the same title. Increasingly well known in Asia, Gao has also made inroads into the international market. In 2005, she was on the red carpet at the 58th Cannes Film Festival, where her film Shanghai Dreams, directed by Wang Xiaoshuai, won the Prix de Jury prize. Jackie Chan has described her as "having the freshest look and chaste spirit that no Hong Kong actress could approach". Chan also picked Gao up as his partner in the action comedy film Rob-B-Hood.
Gao was also selected in 2008 to be a torch bearer in the Nanjing leg of the torch relay for the 2008 Summer Olympics on 27 May.
From 2007 to 2008, Gao starred as Jiang Shuyun in City of Life and Death, a fictional account of events during the Nanjing Massacre. The film won the top prize at the 2009 San Sebastian Film Festival. Moreover, Gao became FIYTA's Brand Ambassador in 2011 and took a series of street snaps in Milan Fashion Week by wearing FIYTA watches.
She married Mark Chao on June 5, 2014.
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Gao Yuanyuan
simplified Chinese: 高圆圆; traditional Chinese: 高圓圓; pinyin: Gāo yuányuán) is a Chinese actress.
Biography
Gao was born in Beijing on October 5, 1979 and entered the entertainment industry in 1996. Gao, unlike other mainland Chinese actresses, did not graduate from any drama academic institutions. Rather, she started her stardom by acting in a television commercial for Meadow Gold ice-cream after being spotted off the street at Beijing's Wangfujing shopping district.She appeared as a minor role in the 1997 comedy film Spicy Love Soup, directed by Zhang Yang. While in 2000, she starred in an advertisement for Qing Zui (fresh mouth) mint during CCTV's broadcast of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, and is thus known to viewers as "fresh mouth girl".
In 2002, she played the leading role of Zhou Zhiruo in The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, a television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel of the same title. Increasingly well known in Asia, Gao has also made inroads into the international market. In 2005, she was on the red carpet at the 58th Cannes Film Festival, where her film Shanghai Dreams, directed by Wang Xiaoshuai, won the Prix de Jury prize. Jackie Chan has described her as "having the freshest look and chaste spirit that no Hong Kong actress could approach". Chan also picked Gao up as his partner in the action comedy film Rob-B-Hood.
Gao was also selected in 2008 to be a torch bearer in the Nanjing leg of the torch relay for the 2008 Summer Olympics on 27 May.
From 2007 to 2008, Gao starred as Jiang Shuyun in City of Life and Death, a fictional account of events during the Nanjing Massacre. The film won the top prize at the 2009 San Sebastian Film Festival. Moreover, Gao became FIYTA's Brand Ambassador in 2011 and took a series of street snaps in Milan Fashion Week by wearing FIYTA watches.
She married Mark Chao on June 5, 2014.
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Let's Get Married (2015)
, 2h7Genres Romance
Actors Gao Yuanyuan, Ivy Chen, Bea Hayden
Roles Ye Wenwen
Rating56%
But Always (2014)
, 1h46Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Nicholas Tse, Gao Yuanyuan, Du Haitao, Lam Suet, Anya Wu, Jack Kao
Roles Anran
Rating53%
Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2 (2014)
, 1h53Directed by Johnnie To
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Louis Koo, Miriam Yeung (杨千嬅), Gao Yuanyuan, Daniel Wu, Lam Suet, Lo Hoi-pang
Roles Cheng Zixin
Rating55%
L’histoire reprend là où elle était restée dans le film précédent. Les cloches du mariage semblent sonner pour Cheng Zixin (Yuanyuan) & Fang Qihong (Daniel Wu). Pourtant, leur romance prend un tournant lorsque Chen Zixin retombe sur Zhang Shenran (Louis Koo), qui semble encore avoir un faible pour elle, malgré le fait qu’il sorte avec Yang Yang Yang (Miriam Yeung), la patronne de Chen Zixin…
Blind Detective (2013)
, 2h10Directed by Johnnie To, Wai Ka-Fai
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Action, Crime, Romance
Actors Andy Lau, Sammi Cheng, Gao Yuanyuan, Guo Tao, Lo Hoi-pang, Lam Suet
Roles Ding Ding
Rating63%
Forced to leave service after turning blind, former detective Johnston Chong See Tun (Andy Lau) ekes out his living by solving cold cases for police rewards. During a case involving the search for the culprit who throws acid off roofs, he meets an attractive hit team inspector Goldie Ho Ka Tung (Sammi Cheng). When Ho notices Johnston's impressive investigative mind despite lack of vision, she enlists his help in a personal case she is unable to solve on her own. The two work together to solve the case as well as other cold cases.
Caught in the Web (2012)
, 1h57Directed by Chen Kaige
Origin Chine
Genres Drama
Actors Gao Yuanyuan, Yao Chen, Wang Xueqi
Roles Chen Ruoxi
Rating64%
Set in Hangzhou(杭州方向), in modern-day China, a young woman becomes embroiled in controversy after a cell phone video of her being disrespectful on a public bus to an elderly person goes viral. The aftermath effects her personal and professional life and brings her face to face with the video's poster, an ambitious journalist.
Don't Go Breaking My Heart (2011)
, 1h55Directed by Johnnie To, Wai Ka-Fai
Origin Hong kong
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Louis Koo, Daniel Wu, Gao Yuanyuan, Lam Suet, Terence Yin, Selena Li
Roles Cheng Zixin
Rating64%
Chi-yan (Gao Yuanyuan) is an analyst who just broke up with her boyfriend (Terence Yin) as he was having a baby with another woman (Selena Li). Sean (Louis Koo), a CEO of a broker firm, knew Chi-yan as her office is just opposite of his. He liked Chi-yan all the while, but knew that she was in a relationship and did not want to interfere, and started to take action as he saw what happened in the bus between Chi-yan, her ex, and his current wife. However, Kevin (Daniel Wu), an architect, who dressed shabbily, and an alcoholic, helped Chi-yan out when she was heartbroken by her ex. With Chi Yan's support and, Kevin decided to pick up designing again, and dated her to meet up again a week later. Chi-yan totally forgot about it as she was starting out with Sean, but it did not work out as Sean had a one-night stand with Angelina which started with a misunderstanding and ended his relationship with Chi-yan. Sean later shifted his office as the economy crisis caused him to lose a big sum of money and went over to US. Three years later, Sean comes back into her life as her boss. He tries to win her heart again, but she is put off, because he would be easily seduced by women. Chi-yan becomes disappointed him and right around this time, Kevin also comes back into her life. Subsequent their last meeting, he successfully started an architecture firm and moves to where Sean's old office was located. Both guys court her and she must choose between the aggressive "flower-hearted" Sean or the sincere Kevin.
Ocean Heaven (2010)
, 1h36Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films about autism
Actors Jet Li, Kwai Lun-mei, Wen Zhang, Zhu Yuanyuan, Dong Yong, Gao Yuanyuan
Roles Dafu's Mother
Rating74%
Ocean Heaven is about a terminally ill father, Sam Wong (Jet Li) as he works his job in an aquarium and struggles to look after his 21-year-old son Dafu, who has autism (Asperger's Syndrome) (Wen Zhang). Sam has single-handedly brought up his son since his wife died 14 years ago and looks after him day and night attempting to help him learn basic tasks in order to care for himself, as well as searching for a home for his son before he passes away. As the story progresses, the growing relationship between father and son as well as the community around them become clearer. Ling ling (Gwei Lun-mei) plays the role of a clown who is part of a small traveling circus (they perform in the aquarium for a short period of time) and who gets on well with Dafu, leading to a close friendship between them.
Driverless (2010)
, 1h45Directed by Zhang Yang
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Liu Ye, Gao Yuanyuan, Li Xiaoran, Chen Jianbin
Roles Zhi Xiong's ex-girlfriend
Rating59%
Driverless is about three love stories that are intertwined by a car accident.
Ocean Heaven (2010)
, 1h36Directed by Xue Xiaolu
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama
Actors Jet Li, Kwai Lun-mei, Wen Zhang, Zhu Yuanyuan, Gao Yuanyuan, Yong Mei
Roles Dafu's Mother
Rating74%
Wang Xincheng travaille avec dévouement dans un parc d'attraction aquatique, et élève seul son fils Dafu. Âgé de 21 ans, Dafu est autiste : il ne peut se débrouiller seul dans le monde extérieur. En revanche, c'est un excellent nageur, et il rejoint souvent son père au travail, pour nager dans les immenses aquariums à côté des dauphins et des tortues. Lorsque Wang apprend qu'il est atteint d'un cancer en phase terminale, il va tout faire pour apprendre à son fils à s'intégrer à la société et à survivre seul…
City of Life and Death (2009)
, 2h15Directed by Lu Chuan
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Political films
Actors Liu Ye, Gao Yuanyuan, John Paisley, Sam Voutas, Jiang Yiyan, Junichi Kajioka
Roles Miss Jiang
Rating76%
City of Life and Death is set in 1937, shortly after the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Imperial Japanese Army has just captured Nanjing (or Nanking), capital of the Republic of China. What followed is historically known as the Nanking Massacre, a period of several weeks wherein massive numbers of Chinese prisoners-of-war and civilians were killed by the Japanese military.
Chengdu, I Love You (2009)
, 1h18Directed by Fruit Chan (陳果)
Genres Romance
Actors Gao Yuanyuan, Guo Tao, Jeong Woo-seong, Anya Wu
Rating54%
The film portrays two love stories centered around Chengdu that spans over a 52-year period in the years of 1976 and 2029.
Season of Good Rain (2009)
, 1h40Directed by Hur Jin-ho
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Jeong Woo-seong, Kim Sang-ho, Gao Yuanyuan
Roles May
Rating63%
Timely like the spring rain, so has he come back into my life... Dong-ha is a thirty-something Korean man on a business trip to Chengdu, China where his company is carrying out construction projects to rebuild the city after the earthquake of 2008. There, totally by chance, he meets an old friend from his school days in the U.S. May is originally from Chengdu, and she has come back here after graduation and now works as a tour guide. Dong-ha and May were perhaps more than friends and had feelings for each other then, but they parted ways before they had a chance to define or declare them. Now that they are thrown on each other's path again, however, they find that the old feelings remain and new ones are forming and that they resemble love.
In Love We Trust (2008)
, 1h55Directed by Wang Xiaoshuai
Origin Chine
Genres Drama
Actors Yu Nan, Tian Yuan, Gao Yuanyuan
Roles School Teacher
Rating69%
The film follows a divorced couple living in modern-day China who discover that their daughter is dying of leukemia. Doctors inform them, however, that the child can only be saved with stem cells from an umbilical cord of a sibling.
Love in the City (2007)
Origin Hong kong
Genres Romance
Actors Shawn Yue Man Lok, Gao Yuanyuan, George Wang
Roles Xiao You
Rating55%
Young traffic cop Yang Le (Shawn Yue) sees kindergarten teacher Xiao You (Gao Yuanyuan) leading her kids to cross the road everyday. While he starts to have special feelings for her, he suddenly learns from a friend that she is a deaf-mute. Meanwhile, Yang's half-brother has a crush on a super star (Naoko Miyake) while working as her Chinese interpreter. But she will leave China when shooting is over. Can the four find true love in the end?
